Our Funders
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- Created on 18 April 2011
APPG core contributions 2011/12
CAFOD
Christian Aid
Open Society Institute
Tearfund
World Vision
APPG project contributors 2011/12
CAFOD
Christian Aid
Open Society Institute
Burundi
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Digital jobs offer skills, promise to Africa's unemployed youth
JOHANNESBURG/NAIROBI 28 May 2013 (IRIN) - Although Africa’s economy has expanded rapidly in recent years, it has not kept pace with the growth of its youth population or their need for jobs.
Rwanda
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Digital jobs offer skills, promise to Africa's unemployed youth
JOHANNESBURG/NAIROBI 28 May 2013 (IRIN) - Although Africa’s economy has expanded rapidly in recent years, it has not kept pace with the growth of its youth population or their need for jobs.
DRC
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Analysis: AU prepares its shock troops
JOHANNESBURG 31 May 2013 (IRIN) - A newly sanctioned African Union (AU) force for quick deployment in conflicts such as in Mali is being promoted as a stop-gap measure ahead of the planned formation of the “rapid deployment capability” (RDC) African Standby Force (ASF).
IRIN Great Lakes
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Thousands still missing HIV treatment following CAR coup
KAMPALA 11 June 2013 (IRIN) - More than 15,000 people living with HIV in the Central African Republic (CAR) had their life-prolonging antiretroviral (ARV) treatment interrupted as a result of the instability before, during and after the 24 March coup by the Séléka rebel group. NGOs are now struggling to ensure these people resume their regimens to reduce the risk of illness, drug resistance and death.
Uganda
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Ugandan mHealth initiative increases 'promiscuity'
KAMPALA 17 June 2013 (IRIN) - A mobile phone-based health programme designed to improve access to sexual health information and boost safe sex in rural central Uganda had the opposite effect, according to the findings of a Yale University study published in May.
IRIN Africa
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Bandit attacks displace northern Nigeria herders
KANO, 19 June 2013 (IRIN) - Incessant deadly attacks on Fulani settlements and villages in northern Nigeria by armed bandits - made up partly of disgruntled Fulani who themselves have lost cattle - are threatening herds and upping tensions in northern Nigeria.