Development and
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Training tailors, cooks or service staff

Catholic nuns try to help young women in Zambia to escape poverty

Education

Teachers urgently wanted

In Ghana, efforts to find a solution to teacher shortages are still ongoing

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Zambia fights corruption

New government of Zambia assures that it wants to fight corruption and takes first measures

Wedding grants

Love or money

Controversial government subsidy leads to wave of weddings in Libya

Mining & Fisheries

Casting a wide net

Mining company KML aids the environment by putting fish in two of its dams

Infrastructure

Tracks towards the future

Major new rail line aims to boost trade links between Ghana and Burkina Faso

Development funding

Putting money in the right hands

Zambia’s Constituency Development Fund decentralises spending with mixed results

Water

Boreholes to nowhere

Groundwater resources in Zimbabwe are being depleted through over-use

Mobile money

Financial inclusion by phone

Zambians are increasingly using mobile phones to move money via online platforms

Livestock farming

Fodder for the dry season

Planting cattle-feed crops saves many heads of cattle from death due to drought

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