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Africa and the tech revolution: what's holding back the mobile continent? – podcast transcript
Clár Ní Chonghaile reports from the Africa technology business forum on the country’s obstacles to getting the most out of the tech revolution
Clár Ní Chonghaile and Kary Stewart
26, Jul, 2016 @6:00 AM
Africa risks fresh debt crisis as levels of borrowing rise sharply, warns UN
Heavy lending triggered by bold efforts to combat inequality and poverty could spell return to difficult era of late 80s and early 90s, says UN trade body
Clár Ní Chonghaile
22, Jul, 2016 @11:39 AM
'Fake calm' in Burundi as tension threatens return to violence
Human rights experts paint chilling picture of state ruled by fear after a year of political instability, with peace talks expected to fail
Clár Ní Chonghaile
14, Jul, 2016 @6:00 AM
Big firms in emerging markets accused of 'pathetic levels of transparency'
Failure to disclose structures, holdings and key financial information has allowed corruption to thrive, finds Transparency International study
Clár Ní Chonghaile
11, Jul, 2016 @6:00 AM
Post-Brexit sterling decline will cost poor countries $4bn, claims study
Overseas Development Institute identifies reduced trade, fall in value of aid money and declining growth among factors that could hit poor countries
Clár Ní Chonghaile
08, Jul, 2016 @10:26 AM
Less aid money, less influence: Brexit's likely hit to the UK's development role
The pound’s precipitous fall has already sliced into the aid budget, and the vote to leave the EU could signal a more inward-looking agenda
Clár Ní Chonghaile
07, Jul, 2016 @6:00 AM
Millions of Iraqi children repeatedly and relentlessly targeted, says UN
Unicef report says 3.6 million children face risks including death or sexual violence, and 4.7 million need humanitarian aid as a result of the conflict
Clár Ní Chonghaile
30, Jun, 2016 @12:01 AM
World must tackle intolerance and exclusion, says Social Progress Index
Finland came top and Central African Republic bottom of the index, which ranks 133 countries for how they meet citizens’ social and environmental needs
Clár Ní Chonghaile
29, Jun, 2016 @1:00 AM
69m children will die of preventable causes, says Unicef
UN children’s agency report highlights toll on youngsters by 2030 unless world leaders turn rhetoric into reality
Clár Ní Chonghaile
28, Jun, 2016 @12:01 AM
Malaria scheme cuts child deaths during Sahel's rainy season
Access-SMC project aims to reach 10 million children in seven countries if bottlenecks in supplying drugs can be overcome
Clár Ní Chonghaile
24, Jun, 2016 @11:40 AM
Africa's urbanisation 'megatrend' needs to deliver growth, says report
With more than half of Africans expected to live in cities by 2050, we need to turn urban areas into engines of development, African Economic Outlook says
Clár Ní Chonghaile
07, Jun, 2016 @9:57 AM
'They think what they did was normal' – Central African Republic's lost children
For many children in Central African Republic, civil war held horrors that went far beyond the trauma of fighting in armed groups
Clár Ní Chonghaile in Bossangoa
02, Jun, 2016 @6:00 AM
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