Tanzania's economy is booming and its tourism sector is thriving. However, concerns about the president's strong-arm tactics and delays in the completion of key infrastructure projects are threatening this growth.
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The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to end global poverty, but poorer countries are struggling to hit them. More help from richer countries is crucial, writes Mazdak Rafaty.
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Kenya’s cabinet secretary for the national treasury and planning, Ukur Yatani, discusses the country’s agenda of fiscal reforms and the importance of constructing an east-west Africa highway.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s fastest growing mobile phone market, but how can telecoms companies make the most of the huge opportunities the region provides?
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Combining a strategic location with an investor-friendly environment, Egypt is ensuring its Suez Canal Economic Zone is primed for foreign investment. 
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London event hears how the UK export credit agency is increasing its focus on trade with African countries. Jason Mitchell reports.
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Emerging states must re-orientate their investment efforts to increasingly target those with an outsized social impact
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Egypt is well on the way to establishing a diversified economy, claims Hala El Saeed, minister of planning and economic development 
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FDI levels have already fallen throughout Iran's main sphere of influence in the region. 
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Togo won a record number of greenfield investment projects last year.
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Millions of cleaners, street vendors and others have been left out of financial relief schemes
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Sierra Leone has just one ventilator for its 7.5m people
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Governments are fighting to keep the coronavirus pandemic at bay and their economies afloat
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Religious congregations risk accelerating Covid-19 outbreak as pandemic moves to emerging markets
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Coronavirus pandemic threatens a human and economic catastrophe
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Tumbling currencies and plunging commodity prices hit countries burdened by high debts
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Instructing people to stay at home is to confine millions to cramped housing
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Social distancing curbs mean August vote cannot be held, says electoral commission
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IMF and World Bank face overwhelming demand for finance with limited resources
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Coronavirus inflicts further damage on country already hit by poor economic growth
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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday announced $60 billion in “funding support” for development in the African continent. The pledge was made during an opening address at the two-day summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, which Xi is…
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Chinese President Xi Jinping kicked off his five-day Africa tour from Zimbabwe Tuesday, receiving a warm welcome in the African nation that counts China as its biggest foreign investor. A slew of deals for power plants, infrastructure and agriculture…
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World leaders convene in France on Monday for the latest global conference on climate change, called COP21, in an attempt to forge the first legally binding climate agreement amid increasing urgency. Yet officials from some countries are worried that…
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Pope Francis will make his first visit to Africa this week, stopping in Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic. But hosting the Holy See is not cheap, especially for impoverished and indebted African nations.
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For moms and dads looking to share the load of raising a newborn, there is Slovenia, which was once a republic in the former Yugoslavia. The country of two million offers some of the most generous paternity benefits in the world, allowing fathers…
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Conventional wisdom holds that Monday is likely to see a rout in stock markets worldwide, as investors recoil in panic from the terrorist attacks in Paris. But what meager data is available on the behavior of traders following such tragedies suggests…
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BELEK, Turkey -- The heads of the world's 20 largest economies pledged to use all of their policy tools to tackle uneven economic growth that falls short of expectations, according to a draft Group of 20 (G20) communique seen by Reuters on Sunday.As…
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If the U.S. Federal Reserve fumbles its long-planned move toward higher interest rates, the sharpest words about Fed Chair Janet Yellen are likely to come from the Turks, Brazilians, Indians, and Chinese, who borrowed in the currency that the Amer…
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Global crude oil stockpiles have ballooned to a record high, providing the world markets with an unprecedented “three billion barrel cushion,” a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) noted Friday. However, a slowing global economy cou…
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Poor families in sub-Saharan Africa for decades have desperately relied on money sent home from loved ones working overseas. Whether sent in an envelope or through an electronic transfer, these remittances can put dinner on the table and send a ch…
- 13 Nov 15, 7:11am -

By Tigist Gebru Driving out of Jijiga- the Somali Regional town to the windy and dusty plain fields of Gunagado in Jarar zone to see the ongoing Oxfam together with UNICEF, One of the drought response Donors, we come face to face with the severity of…
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By Tim Bierley –  Things can change quickly. January in Akobo and searing heat has scorched the earth almost to dust. Surrounding the town, the dry husks of bushes rustle in the breeze and naked trees dig their claws in, braced for another four mo…
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By Marthe van de Wolf – As a public health promoter for Oxfam’s local partner Havoyoco, Hamda Mohamed spends most of her time in settlements for displaced families and host communities in the Sool region of Somaliland. Most people here in this re…
- 6 Sep 17, 2:20am -

By Blandina Bobson – Wajir, KENYA The face of drought in Wajir County, in Kenya’s north is ugly. The land is bare and expansive, multiple whirlwinds sweeping across every now and then, which local myths call ‘the devil’. It is emaciated ani…
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By Christina Corbett   Malakal. It should be bustling and busy. It was South Sudan’s second biggest city after Juba. Instead, after more than three and a half years of war the town is almost destroyed. It has changed hands more than 10 times durin…
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By Nigel Tricks, Regional Director – Horn, East and Central Africa Two weeks ago, I visited Oxfam’s drought response in eastern Somaliland. We drove across a stark landscape; what should be a pastoralist heartland is now completely devoid of wate…
- 16 May 17, 10:27am -

By Faith Kasina The hour-long trek with the first glimmers of dawn is still very vivid in her mind. “By five o’clock each morning, my sisters and I were already on the road, walking to the community water pan to collect water,” narrates Teresa…
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40 year old Hassna Hassen lives with her four children in Bisle district in Ethiopia’s Somali region, one of the hardest hit by the ongoing drought, owing to two consecutive failed rains. Just as the many pastoralist families living in the Somali r…
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The inter agency working group on disaster preparedness in East and Central Africa (IAWG) has launched a regional Call To Action targeting the Inter-Governmental Authority for Development (IGAD) meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia that began on the 19th…
- 20 Jan 17, 9:26am -

By Mary Mndeme and Bill Marwa Over 177,000 people have fled from Burundi to Tanzania since the country descended into violence over a year ago. At least a third of those now live in the Nyarugusu camp, the third largest refugee resettlement located i…
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For the RWA the story of Mandela is a story of struggle that started in the rural village where land and rural livelihoods was at the foundation of his life experience. Mandela’s life was a struggle for many freedoms! But his story and struggle is…
- 21 Mar 15, 9:49am -

Daud Kayisi: Media & Communications Coordinator, Malawi She has no structures she can call home. She has no maize that would assure her of the next day’s meal. She has no kitchen utensils anyway! She has no luxury for choosing what to wear because…
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I’ve been campaigning since I was born. When I was 9 years old I travelled with my granny and mother to Pretoria to join a protest during the fight against Apartheid. In our community I can see people are struggling. I’m a strong, hardworking wom…
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One in four people in sub-Saharan Africa are hungry, the worst prevalence of any region in the world and more than double the global average. Climate change is a major contributor to this, threatening the ability of more and more people to grow and b…
- 21 Nov 14, 11:43pm -

A year after super-typhoon Haiyan devastated the Philippines, a new report issued today by the Pan-Asian Oxfam team, Can’t Afford to Wait: Briefing Note calls for governments across Asia, backed by regional and global institutions and fair contribu…
- 6 Nov 14, 7:05am -

By: Pooven Moodley Inequality is intertwined within existence in South Africa. From the days of royalty to colonization and apartheid, inequality has been systematically entrenched within the minds of people living in South Africa. My experience of i…
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Domestic resources are, and will continue to be, the largest source of sustainable financing for development in African countries. While Official Development Assistance (ODA) remains a critical source of development finance in Africa, rising from USD…
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1. INTRODUCTION L’Initiative Kilimandjaro est une mobilisation des femmes rurales de l’Afrique à travers un moment emblématique au pied du mont Kilimandjaro au mois d’Octobre 2016. L’Initiative Kilimandjaro a été conçu par des femmes r…
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1. INTRODUCTION The Kilimanjaro Initiative is a rural women’s mobilisation from across Africa towards an iconic moment at the foot of Mt Kilimanjaro in October 2016. The Kilimanjaro Initiative was conceived by the Rural Women during a meeting of ru…
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The rural women of Africa have spoken. They demand an end to the retoric and seek secure land rights. Between 10th and 16th October 2016, 29 of them scalled the highest mountain in Africa-Mt Kilimanjaro just to make this statment. Their return on the…
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  On April 17th, GROW campaign* in West Africa is joining the Via Campesina mobilisation** and global movement to support peasant struggles worldwide. For GROW, the priority is and remains the defence of family farmers, agriculture and livestock in…
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En ce 17 avril, CULTIVONS* en Afrique de l’Ouest se joint au mouvement global pour soutenir les luttes paysannes à travers le monde répondant à l’appel de Via Campesina**. Pour CULTIVONS, la priorité reste et demeure toujours la défense des…
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Press release March 8, 2016- On March 8th 2012 International Women’s Day was dedicated to rural women’s empowerment in their role in poverty, development and hunger alleviation. Few years later, it is now obvious that challenges previously ident…
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Communique de presse Le 8 mars 2012, le thème de la journée internationale de la femme était dédié à autonomiser les femmes rurales pour éradiquer la faim et la pauvreté. Quelques années plus tard, force est de constater que les défis à re…
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Global leaders are failing to honour their promises to communities devastated by Ebola in West Africa, with $5.8 billion of pledged recovery funds proving almost impossible to track, Oxfam warned today. Six months since the International Conference o…
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Oxfam in Sierra Leone has donated three new ambulances to the Koinadugu District Council. In an auspicious ceremony which was witnessed by the Deputy Minister of Health and Sanitation. Mr. Foday Sawi on Friday 15th January 2016, OXFAM Country Directo…
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Print section Print Rubric:  The best players earn government salaries Print Headline:  Why Nigeria wins at Scrabble…
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Print section UK Only Article:  standard article Fly Title:  A tale of two continents…
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Print section Print Rubric:  Robert Mugabe’s ruinous reign is ending messily. How did it go so wrong? And how can Zimbabwe recover? Print Headline: …
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Print section Print Rubric:  After 37 years Robert Mugabe has been sidelined by the army. The world should learn from his misrule Print Headline: …
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Main image:  ON THE morning of November 8th a small crowd—one sprightly second world war veteran with a cane, a group of junior military attachés from allied countries and some cu…
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Print section UK Only Article:  standard article Fly Title:  Mobile phones and development…
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Print section Print Rubric:  The sharing economy, African style Print Headline:  Four legs good, four wheels better…
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Print section Print Rubric:  Technology may help compensate for Africa’s lack of manufacturing Print Headline:  Robots in the rain…
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Print section Print Rubric:  Africa might leapfrog straight to cheap renewable electricity and minigrids Print Headline:  Good night…
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The coronavirus crisis underscores the need for a payment system that includes the unbanked.
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Trying to pass out $350 billion in days or weeks is harder than it sounds.
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Americans are praying for the British PM as he battles Covid-19.
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School districts fear lawsuits if they grade remote assignments.
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Pennsylvania shuts down liquor stores. Panic buying ensues.
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The central bank’s lending programs will need top-shelf staff and rigorous disclosure.
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Before modern medicine, the Habsburg monarchy kept epidemics at bay for more than a century and a half.
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Directing businesses to fight the pandemic would help workers more than an infrastructure splurge.
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Garbagemen are finally getting the respect they deserve.
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In the lugubrious poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay, there are flashes of optimism that can comfort and inspire us.
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