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20/11/2008: Young Africans set the agenda for a future
60 young representatives from 22 different African countries gave their proposals and recommendations to the African Commission this week.

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12/11/2008: Host families of displaced at risk
While official figures of newly displaced people in crowded camps around Goma are still being determined, another reality of displacement remains in the shadows: the thousands of families who have opened their modest homes to fleeing strangers.
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06/11/2008: "People fled in all directions"
The security situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo remains precarious and aid groups do not yet know what effect the most recent violence will have on the latest cease fire or humanitarian situation. First hand report from ACT aid worker in DR Congo.
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30/10/2008: A deadly calm in Goma
After panic and lootings by retreating troops a deadly calm has fallen over Goma in Eastern Congo.

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22/10/2008: Five fish per intercourse
By the shore of Lake Malawi women offer their bodies as payment for freshly caught fish, since they have no money. The nightly activities spread HIV and produces fatherless children. SWAM project helps the women take better care of them selves. Read more...


20/10/2008: Africa Commission policy notes
The Danish government has established an Africa Commission on effective development cooperation with Africa. Read more...


16/10/2008: Global credit crisis threatens the poorest
The global credit crisis will have dramatic consequences for the poorest, because those who fund
them are hit by the breakdown," says John Nduna, director of ACT International. Read more...


02/10/2008: Pop songs are luxury in the maizefield
The Malawian farmers slog away in the dry fields. But that isn’t always enough to provide their families with food. The ELDS program helps the farmers to save money and groundnuts, to secure that they don’t starve. Read more...


26/09/2008: No more mine action
DanChurchAid’s (DCA) Humanitarian Mine Action programme is closing its mine clearance activities in Burundi after almost four years. DCA has finalised all tasks that has been entrusted to the programme by the Burundian government, except from one area, which continues to be inaccessible due to security reasons. The area in question is a strong hold of one of the rebel groups still active in Burundi. Read more...


03/09/2008: A historic election
The past is scary, but the upcoming elections in Angola on September 5th has every possibility to turn a new page in the country’s history Read more...