Serious concerns are being raised about the counting of votes in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s first multi-party elections in 40 years.
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Aid politics: why Ethiopia and its donors are no longer talking
Aid thinking moves in policy cycles, and the dogma for now, at least for the big European donors, is to give aid directly to governments.
Long wait after landmark Congo poll: results will not be official for several weeks
The first results from Sunday’s landmark elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo are being published outside some of the 50,000 polling stations around this vast country.
Zimbabwe money loses three zeros as a result of inflation of almost 1,200% per year
Zimbabwe’s central bank has announced that three zeros will be taken off every banknote to help consumers deal with inflation of almost 1,200%.
Largess with clear limits: in Africa and elsewhere, Gates Foundation takes focused approach to giving.
KHAYELITSHA, South Africa — Bill and Melinda Gates came to the cramped tin shack of Nkosebaca Thingathinga one day this month to understand how the 61-year-old man had contracted tuberculosis — a major focus of research for the couple’s foundation — an astounding four times.
Poverty worries beset resurgent Zambia
BBC News has been to Zambia as part of a special series looking at how Africa is faring one year on after the promises of increased aid made at the G8 summit in Gleneagles.
ZAMBIA: Recovering Copperbelt faces new dangers
Togo’s newly elected President Faure Gnassingbe has ordered a probe into the violence triggered by the disputed poll that brought him to power last month.
U.N. group sets compromise on AIDS policy. Document sets no targets, cites risks to women.
UNITED NATIONS, June 2 — Delegates to a United Nations conference on AIDS reached agreement Friday after difficult negotiations on a policy declaration that sets no targets for the number of people who should be treated and makes only indirect reference to high-risk groups such as homosexuals, prostitutes and intravenous drug users.
Food or drugs? How famine and hunger compound Africa’s AIDS crisis.
Delegates at the UN summit on Aids have been hammering out the finer details of a declaration to combat HIV/Aids.Meanwhile, 40 million people worldwide are living with the disease.In countries like Kenya, the prospect of getting anti-retroviral drugs is improving – there has been a six-fold increase in the numbers getting treatment in the past two years.
AIDS vaccine testing goes overseas. U.S. funds $120 million trial despite misgivings of some researchers.
CHONBURI, Thailand — Inside a ramshackle Buddhist temple here on the country’s southeastern coast, curious villagers gathered last fall as part of the United States’ biggest gamble yet on stopping the AIDS pandemic.
