Sub Saharan Africa

Africa and the Great Recession: Changing Times

Antoinette Sayeh | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Mali, South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Investment, Zimbabwe, Africa, Jobs, Imf, Europe, China, Emerging Markets, African Economy, Great Recession, Business News
Antoinette Sayeh

In previous global downturns, sub-Saharan Africa has usually been badly affected -- but not this time around. But in sub-Saharan Africa, growth for the region as a whole has remained reasonably strong.

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Pushing Forward G8's Anti-Corruption Agenda

Shruti Shah | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Corruption, Food Insecurity, Transparency, Transparency and Accountability, Impactg8, Sub-Saharan Africa, Dear G8, G8 Summit, G8, Impact News
Shruti Shah

As leaders of the G8 convene at Camp David, it is imperative they take corruption into account. Corruption underpins many of the summit's stated objectives -- such as promoting food security in Africa.

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This Sunday, a Gift to Mothers Around the World

Maureen Greenwood-Basken | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Mother's Day 2012, Sub-Saharan Africa, Women Childbirth, African Women's Health, Women's Health, Mother's Day, Access to Contraception, Contraception, Global Motherhood, Universal Access Project, Childbirth, Impact News
Maureen Greenwood-Basken

It is no coincidence that the countries with the highest rates of child mortality, mostly in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, or sub-Saharan Africa, also have some of the lowest rates of contraceptive prevalence.

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World Malaria Day: 5 Ways To Fight The Disease

Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Video, World Health Organization, Mosquitos, Sub-Saharan Africa, Malaria No More, The Global Fund, Africa, Malaria, Nothing but Nets, World Malaria Day, Nets for Life, Slidepollajax, Roll Back Malaria, Impact News

In the time it takes for a malaria-infected mosquito to bite, you could do your part to end the spread of this deadly, but preventable, disease. Ev...

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Turn Towards Africa

Seth Engel | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Mali, Women's Rights, Joyce Banda, Malawi, President Obama, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Foreign Policy, World News
Seth Engel

Regardless of their short-term results, the dynamics of the seemingly dangerous democratization in the Middle East and Northern Africa contrast sharply with occurrences in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Growth With Resilience: An Opportunity for African Agriculture

Professor Sir Gordon Conway | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: G20 Summit, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Economic Development, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Agribusiness, Growth, g20, Business News
Professor Sir Gordon Conway

Many African countries are growing fast. African GDP is growing at about 6% per year and over the past decade, 6 of the world's 10 fastest grow¬ing countries were African. But this growth remains fragile.

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Cultivating Knowledge and Crops: Women Are Key to Sustainable Agricultural Development

Danielle Nierenberg | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Markets, Origins, Africa, L'Oreal, Farmers, State of the World 2011, Agriculture, American Agri-Women, Credit, Women, Microfinance, Extension Services, National Women in Agriculture Association, Sub-Saharan Africa, Nourishing the Planet, Worldwatch, Purdue Cooperative Extension Services, Women's World Banking, Impact News
Danielle Nierenberg

Women account for 75 percent of the agricultural producers in sub-Saharan Africa, but the majority of women farmers are living on only $1.25 per day, according to researchers from the Worldwatch Institute.

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AIDS at 30: A Women's Story

Nancy Mahon | Posted 08.10.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, South Africa, Women's Rights, Women, Human Rights, Sub-Saharan Africa, United Nations, Africa, HIV/AIDS Treatment, HIV/AIDS Prevention, HIV/AIDS Africa, Impact News
Nancy Mahon

HIV/AIDS takes such a devastating toll on women because it thrives on inequity, violence, poverty and stigma.

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Mozambique HIV Patients Help Each Other Stick To Treatment Regimen

NPR | Posted 08.05.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, AIDS Treatment, HIV Drugs, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Aids, Hiv, HIV/AIDS Africa, Mozambique, Good News, Impact News

Like many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Mozambique has a high HIV rate, reaching nearly 20 percent among some sectors of the population. In Mozambi...

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Sacrifices of Motherhood

Christy Turlington Burns | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mother's Day, Motherhood, No Woman No Cry Documentary, Sub-Saharan Africa, Women Childbirth, Mothers, Childbirth, Maternal Mortality, Healthy Living News
Christy Turlington Burns

Most mothers in this country and in the West accept sacrifices willfully because the joy and beauty of motherhood overwhelms them. In much of the rest of the world, however, the sacrifice of motherhood means something very different.

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The G20 Needs to Support Reformist African Leadership

Tony Blair | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Sub-Saharan Africa, G20 Summit, g20, Reformist African Leadership, Africa Leadership, Africa, Subsaharan Africa, World News
Tony Blair

African citizens deserve elections that are about changing lives, not just changing leaders. The international community needs to find new ways to support, not just exhort, leaders in Africa to do the right thing.

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Once West Africa's Rising Star, Ivory Coast Faces Dangerous Horizon

Michelle Chen | Posted 06.09.2011

Read More: Libya, Colonialism, Civil War, Laurent Gbagbo, Sub-Saharan Africa, Conflict, Un Peacekeepers, Alassane Ouattara, Africa, United Nations, West Africa, Imf, Ivory Coast, Cote D'Ivoire, World News
Michelle Chen

The crisis engulfing the Ivory Coast is a lesson in how even the trappings of democracy can fail to keep a fragile nation from breaking apart. It wasn't supposed to be this way.

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Raising Government Revenue in Africa: A Road Out of Poverty

Mark Plant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vat, Domestic Tax Revenues, Regional Technical Assistance Center, Natural Resources, Trade Liberalization, Equity, Tax Administration, Technical Assistance, Health Spending, Tax Exemptions, Infrastructure, Education, Tax Policy, Value-Added Tax, Sub-Saharan Africa, Taxpayer Protection, Poverty Reduction, Topical Trust Funds, Afritacs, World News
Mark Plant

There are limits to how much a government can receive as grants from donors or borrow. So raising tax revenues is a necessary element for governments to spend on providing more of these essential services and, in turn, reduce poverty.

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The Republican Attack on Women's Health Goes Global

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Women's Rights, Women, Family Planning, Congress, Lesotho, Beijing, Reproductive Rights, United Nations, Reproductive Health, Globalization, Ngos, Barack Obama, HIV/AIDS, Education, Sub-Saharan Africa, Women's Health, Africa, Gop, Contraception, Cambodia, UN Commission on Status of Women, Bolivia, Asia, Republicans, Politics News
Michelle Chen

What does a congressperson from Ohio have in common with a 16 year-old sex worker in Cambodia? They're both symbols of the perverse political stalemate in Washington, D.C.

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Sub Saharan Africa: Raising Its Profile on Global Food Security Issues -- Part One

Amb. Robin Renee Sanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Food Crisis, Sub Saharan Africa, Global Food Security, Africa Food Crisis, Africa Food, Africa, World News
Amb. Robin Renee Sanders

Africa should be one of the leading regions in shaping global food security policies and feeding the future instead of others shaping it for Africa.

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Launching State of the World 2011

Danielle Nierenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sustainable Agriculture, Sub-Saharan Africa, State of the World 2011, Food, Nourishing the Planet, Agriculture, Hunger, Danielle Nierenberg, World News
Danielle Nierenberg

Last week the Worldwatch Institute launched its flagship publication, State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet in New York City....

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How Earth's Orbital Shift Shaped the Sahara

Anuradha K. Herath | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Science, Climate Change, Nasa, Sahara, Sub-Saharan Africa, Space, Astrobiology, Africa, Green News
Anuradha K. Herath

The Sahara desert was once fertile grassland. This fact has been common knowledge in the scientific community for some time, but scientists are still grappling with what changed.

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Cancun: Why Africa's Voice on Global Environmental Issues Is Important

Amb. Robin Renee Sanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Population, Environment, Water and Land Use, Climate Change, Africa, Cancun, Sub Saharan Africa, Cancun Climate Conference, Cancun Climate, Cancun Climate Talks, World News
Amb. Robin Renee Sanders

As Cancún ends with environmental issues and policy still on the table, the voice of Sub-Saharan Africa needs to be front and center in the global debate.

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Why AIDS First?

Dr. Mark Dybul | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aids, Aids Relief, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa AIDS, The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, World AIDS Day, HIV Cure, Home News
Dr. Mark Dybul

For seeing the future so clearly and taking decisive, compassionate action on HIV, President Bush deserves the Nobel Prize. The irony is that he might be one of the few not to care if he ever receives it.

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Better Farms, Improved Lives

Bill Gates | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hunger, Global Development, Progress, Poverty, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Agriculture, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Small Farmers, Asia, Impact, Impact News
Bill Gates

With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, six nonprofit organizations are helping hundreds of thousands of poor farmers in Africa and Asia grow more productive, profitable, and sustainable crops.

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Low-Cost Thrills in Millennium Village Data

John W. McArthur | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Foreign Aid, Jeffrey Sachs, Poverty, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Millennium Promise, G8 Summit, Malawi, United Nations, Malaria, Millennium Villages Project, Sustainable Development, Green Revolution, g20, G20 Summit, Mdgs, Sub-Saharan Africa, Millennium Development Goals, G8, Millennium Villages, Safe Drinking Water, Earth Institute, Global Poverty, Fighting Malaria, Poverty Alleviation, MDG Summit, Impact News
John W. McArthur

Yesterday, May 30, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the Millennium Villages project (MVP) in Mwandama, Malawi. While there he ...

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Good Health May Make Modern Wars Less Deadly

Betwa Sharma | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sri Lanka, Liberia, Cold War, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, International Rescue Committee, Ethiopia, Angola, Indonesia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Korean War, India, Sudan, Iraq, Rwanda, World News
Betwa Sharma

A new study finds that post-Cold War conflicts claim relatively fewer civilian and combatant lives. The reason for this observed decline is good health and the immunization of children practices during peacetime.

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Women Farmers in the Developing World

Dan Silverstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unifem, Developing World, Women in Agriculture, Agra, World Bank, Tom Vilsak, Agribusiness, Micro-Finance, Department of Agriculture, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, African Development Bank, Gender Governance, Women, Grameen Bank, UNDevelopment Program, Food and Agricultural Organization, Sub-Saharan Africa, Agricultural Development, Decade for Women, Beijing Conference, Un, Green Heron Tools, Catherine Bertini, Gender Mainstreaming, Usaid, World Food Program, Dfid, World News
Dan Silverstein

In Sub-Saharan Africa, 80% of agricultural workers are women. According to the World Bank,They raise 90% of the food, but receive only 10% of credit extended for agricultural loans.

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Climate Change Displacing Thousands

LA Times | Edmund Sanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drought, Sub Saharan Africa, Africa, Melting Glaciers, Somalia, Water, Climate Change, Climate Change Refugees, Ice Pack, Sea Levels, Kenya, Dadaab, Green News

Africa is already home to one-third of the 42 million people worldwide uprooted by ethnic slaughter, despots and war. But experts say climate change i...

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Growing Businesses in African Soil

Dan Silverstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: G8, Trade Missions, Sub-Saharan Africa, Agricultural Development, Agricultural Policy, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Agribusiness, World Food Programme, UN Office for Partnerships, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Usaid, World Economic Forum, Fao, State Universities, Land Grant Colleges, Business News
Dan Silverstein

It's in our own self-interest to jump start agricultural development with the goal of creating markets for ourselves.

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