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Dorchasnetwork's blog has an interesting piece on post-2015. Particularly interesting list of lessons learnt.
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South Africa is an odd country. Some days it is depressingly peculiar Other days, like today, it's wonderfully quirky. Today's big news in SA (apparently successfully competing with murder, police violence, minibudget and a ruling party march to pray for economic transformation) is the release of the first results from the country's 2011 census. It's the first census since 2001, so everyone is
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This is what media coverage of African countries, cities should look like. (Also a really interesting piece on tech in Mogadishu). Not good news, not bad news, no simple stories, just real news - the economics of it, the people of it, proper interviews with proper people, as if they were real people not somehow waiting for outsiders to have opinions about them. More of this!
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A vote of no-confidence that should have seen the Swaziland cabinet resign or be fired has been overturned, calling into question the force of the constitution. Although Swaziland is a monarchy, the pretence at least of respecting the constitution of the country has been maintained for the most part until now. This latest more suggests the largely-toothless parliament will be further weakened.
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It's World Food Day today. The UN has revised the number of hungry people in the world down to "only" 870 million. 870 million. A lot of those are in sub-Saharan Africa. This figure doesn't distinguish between chronic and acute food insecurity, which is perhaps part of the problem. It's part of the reason that there are still NGOs out there who can run "children around the world are starving" ad
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Swaziland MPs have passed a "no confidence" motion in cabinet. Follow this link for more.
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19 elephants and two rhinos have died in Zim's Hwange National Park since this water crisis began. Apparently, it'll take US$100,000 to secure the rest of the parks key game animals. The Consolidated Appeal for Zimbabwe, meanwhile, remains largely unmet. Out of 1,500,000 people in need of food assistance, WFP has so far been able to help 100,000.
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New post on Aid on the Edge suggests that maybe it would be useful to think about clusters of different kinds of developing countries. Read it. And here is the (awesome) map.
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725,000 people in Lesotho face food crisis. That's a third of the country. 230,000 are particularly vulnerable, including orphans and HIV-affected households. An national emergency food crisis was declared on August 9. WFP has appealed for $38 million.
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10 000 cattle have died in the last month in Swaziland. 10 000 in a month. In a country where a single cow represents the wealth of an entire household, that is a huge problem. Particularly when the cattle that are dying appear to be those of poor households. IRIN suggests, Cattle are highly valued culturally and represent the only means of financial security for the two-thirds of the
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