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poverty in africa – TalkAfrique http://www.talkafrique.com Connecting To Advance Fri, 11 Jan 2013 03:26:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://www.talkafrique.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ta_logo22-150x92.jpg poverty in africa – TalkAfrique http://www.talkafrique.com 32 32 The Emerging, Booming, Rising Stories of Africa: Hype or Hope? http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/africa-emerging-booming-rising-stories-hype-hope http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/africa-emerging-booming-rising-stories-hype-hope#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2013 01:53:31 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=11258 Recent editorials on Africa are catchy, grizzly, and even sexy. They come with unique calming aroma. The continent is emerging, booming, rising. The middle class is bulging. So I visited. What I saw is what you will see if you do. The headlines are true for Lagos, Accra, and Addis Ababa, but they are far from the reality in the fringes, the outskirts of the countries. Are the rising, booming, and emerging stories and editorials a hype or hope?

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]]> http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/africa-emerging-booming-rising-stories-hype-hope/feed 3 Poverty Drops With Secondary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/poverty-drops-secondary-education-sub-saharan-africa Sun, 01 Jul 2012 17:20:33 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=10808 by Steve Crabtree and Anita Pugliese Gallup polls from 2009 to 2011 find sub-Saharan Africans with a secondary education are less likely to live in poverty, stressing the need for universal access to this level of education. Across the 38 countries surveyed, a median of 85% of adults with a primary education or less are …

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]]> South Sudan food Security Improves http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/south-sudan-food-security-improves Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:04:04 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=5766 12 January 2011, Rome/Juba – The number of people in need of food assistance in southern Sudan has decreased markedly – though prospects for food security largely depend on the post-referendum period and the number of people returning to the South, a United Nations report said today. An assessment by the UN Food and Agricultural …

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]]> Globalization And The Development of Africa http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/globalization-new-world-order-development-africa http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/globalization-new-world-order-development-africa#comments Wed, 12 Jan 2011 01:03:39 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=5737 The Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary 6th Edition defines the word global as a phenomenon that includes many parts. Moving a step further from this definition, globalization could be described as a concept or phenomenon that includes all parts of the world and also operates around the world; hence the whole world is looked upon as …

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]]> http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/globalization-new-world-order-development-africa/feed 3 There’s A Lot More To Africa Than Famine And War http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/theres-a-lot-more-to-africa-than-famine-and-war Fri, 31 Dec 2010 01:46:25 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=5122 Recently I was flipping between several of the major TV news networks who were reporting a variety of stories about Africa. All were focusing exclusively on war and famine.

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]]> Swelling Cities http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/swelling-african-cities http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/swelling-african-cities#comments Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:39:00 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=3881 A UN report says urbanization is happening faster in Africa than anywhere else in the world.

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]]> Africa can reach development targets if given a push-Migiro http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/africa-reach-development-targets-if-offered-strong-global-support-migiro Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:48:29 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=3768 Africa, with its immense human and material wealth, can achieve the globally agreed development targets world leaders have pledged to achieve by 2015, Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro told United Nations agencies working on the continent, while also stressing the need for strong support from the international community. “The continent’s people need neither pity nor charity, …

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]]> Watch out for Africa, says the World Bank http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/the-world-bank-and-africas-future http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/the-world-bank-and-africas-future#comments Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:14:26 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=3495 The World Bank alerts nations to watch out for Africa's economy to take off like China did 30 years ago.

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]]> http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/the-world-bank-and-africas-future/feed 4 Reducing trauma in HIV orphans http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/reducing-trauma-in-hiv-orphans http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/reducing-trauma-in-hiv-orphans#comments Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:56:08 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=3472 When a child loses a parent to HIV/AIDS, grief counselling helps with the trauma of loss, but when the child is both poor and orphaned, the chances of a fulfilling life are significantly diminished. Studies have found high levels of psychological distress among such orphans, and suggest interventions to improve their mental wellbeing. Here are …

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