Africa
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FFD3: MDG AIDS goals exceeded expectation ahead of time: UNAIDS report
A report by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) announces today in Addis Abeba that sixth Millennium Development…
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FFD3: ActionAid says failure to create a UN global tax body “appalling”
The third international Financing for Development conference in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, has failed to agree on the creation of a…
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FFD3: European Union and the U.S. join forces to increase access to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa
Secretary of Treasury Jacob J. Lew and EU International Cooperation and Development Commissioner Neven Mimica sign MOU to strengthen US-EU…
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FFD3: AU launches roadmap to enhance, promote nutrition in Africa
The African Union Commission launched on Monday July 13th the African Regional Nutrition Strategy (ARNS 2016-2025) a continental roadmap to…
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FFD3: Global Financing Facility launched to boost maternal and children’s health
12 Billion USD Mobilized for the front runners; Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and DR. Congo A key financing platform for the…
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FFD3: The Addis Abeba Action Agenda: Fit for purpose?
By Sabine Terlecki Over the last three days global civil society have been meeting ahead of the third Financing for Development…
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FFD3: Last chance to avert failure for the financing of development
Failure may be imminent at the negotiations for a “Financing for Development” (FFD) accord in Addis Ababa this week, said…
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FFD3: Africa’s opportunity in Addis
By Macky Sall DAKAR – This week, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia’s capital and a city full of symbolic importance for all…
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Reeyot Alemu is free at last
Reeyot Alemu became one of the three journalists and two bloggers as well as six Oromo university students to…
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Update: despite claims Oromo student protestors still in jail
The news item published on Addis Standard on July 9th saying “At least six Oromo university students were also among…
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