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Why Too Many Mothers Are Still Dying At Childbirth in West Africa
Maternal mortality rates in West Africa are among the highest in the world. One in every 30 Nigerian mothers die in childbirth compared with one in every 30,000 in Sweden.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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In big boost, after 25 years VW brings car assembly back to Nigeria to tap Africa growth
VOLKSWAGEN AG resumed building vehicles in Nigeria for the first time in 25 years in a bid to foster sales growth in Africa.Assembly began Tuesday in Lagos of models that will include the Passat, Jetta and CC sedans as well as the Amarok pickup truck, manufacturing partner Stallion Group said Tuesday in a statement.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: My Mother, the Social Entrepreneur
The year is 1957. I am born in a Singapore that is very poor. Except for the British and those who work for them, almost all the rest of us live hand to mouth. My father works in a provision shop, and his $90 salary as a shop assistant can hardly feed his family of three kids, one wife and our grandmother.
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In Global Healthcare, Quality and Access Are What Matters – Not Who Delivers It
When the UN financing for development conference begins in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, there’s likely to be a big elephant in the room: the private sector.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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This ‘Emergency Floor’ Is Going to Make Life Easier for Millions of Refugees
Humanitarian innovation is something of a hot topic, in philanthropic circles. NGOs, governments, and other private and public institutions are trying to findnew solutions to the growing number of emergencies taking place in our troubled world: in the last 10 years, the number of people affected by humanitarian crisis has almost doubled.
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Botswana’s Hearing Aid Pioneers Are Betting on Solar Power to Go Global
Six years after developing the prototype of a solar-powered hearing aid, Deaftronics, a Botswana-based company, is readying to take its technology global.
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- Energy, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Raise Taxes on Cigarettes, Other Tobacco Products: WHO
The World Health Organisation has urged governments around the world to increase taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products to save lives.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Financial Inclusion Key to Climate Risk Reduction for Zambia’s Smallholders
In the advent of unpredictable weather, smallholder rain-dependent agriculture is increasingly becoming a risky business and the situation could worsen if, as seems likely, the world experiences levels of global warming that could lead to an increase in droughts, floods and diseases, both in frequency and intensity.
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- Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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