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In Focus

Economic Development

This beat covers micro and macro-economic issues, including policies, infrastructure, urbanization, FDI, the role of private sector, regional integration, debt, and recovery.

healthRwanda

Information technology helps Rwandan clinics reach out

womenGender Equality

Hard fight for access and decision-making power

developmenteconomy

NEPAD encourages African private sector engagement

Chadchild soldiers

Progress in a few countries, but victimization still widespread

IMFMDGs

New IMF programme targets ‘graduates’ of austerity plans

internally displaced personsKenya

Economic and social repercussions affect entire region

Gender EqualityHIV-AIDS

Activists in Zambia fight a ‘deadly link’

HIV-AIDSUNAIDS

But new data show that epidemic remains huge in Africa

healthMDGs

Many are too poor to survive childbirth