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22 May 2012
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Yemen
Yemen must try to repair its deadly north-south divide

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A suicide bombing that killed more than 90 Yemeni soldiers has exposed the split in a country teetering on the brink of collapse

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22 May 2012
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Côte d'Ivoire
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Biggest threat to west African women

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Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ivory Coast need funding to address the humanitarian crisis of violence against women, report claims

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22 May 2012
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Viet Nam
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Vietnam's battle against tuberculosis boosted by Australia partnership

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Australian tuberculosis experts aim to help Vietnam reduce prevalence of disease as part of $1.3m healthcare programme

Mike Ives for SciDev.net, part of the Guardian development network

Australia and Vietnam are working together to tackle tuberculosis (TB) in Vietnam, which has one of the highest rates of the disease in Asia. An initial $1.3m (£820,000) has been allocated for a partnership project in which Vietnam is receiving advice from Australian TB experts to apply at all levels of its healthcare system.

18 May 2012
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Ethiopia
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UK aid for education in east Africa is failing

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DfiD aid programmes pay too much attention to enrolment and not enough to whether children are learning, says report

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18 May 2012
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Burkina Faso
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Sahel food crisis: life in Burkina Faso – in pictures

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In the Sahel region of west Africa drought and conflict have left millions of people facing severe shortages of food and water. The situation is critical near the border between Mali and Burkina Faso, where thousands of Malians have poured into refugee camps and many Burkinabes are surviving on aid from the Red Cross

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18 May 2012
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Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)
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Shades of the past as people flee fighting

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After three years of tentative peace in the restive Kivu provinces in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), people are once again on the move. Violence has flared between a group of recidivist rebels and the national army, sending thousands fleeing to camps within the country and over the border to Rwanda and Uganda.

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16 May 2012
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Mozambique
G8 urged to tackle malnutrition, the hidden killer in Mozambique

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Plight of Mozambican family forced to use boiled wood shavings for food highlights problem of chronic malnourishment

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15 May 2012
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Kenya
Kenyan TV show ploughs lone furrow in battle to improve rural livelihoods

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A reality TV programme is providing Kenya's farmers with vital tips; its creator wonders why rich countries aren't doing the same

Read the full blog post by Clar Ni Chonghaile in the Guardian's Poverty Matters Blog.

10 May 2012
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Uganda
Uganda threatens to expel Oxfam and NGOs over land-grabbing claims

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Oxfam and the Uganda Land Alliance have been threatened with deregistration by Uganda's internal affairs minister Hilary Onek

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09 May 2012
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Bangladesh
'We have seen the enemy': Bangladesh's war against climate change

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Devastating cyclones, floods and ruined crops have made Bangladesh 'the world's most aware society on climate change'

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09 May 2012
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Myanmar
Burma suffering from huge shortfall in HIV and Aids drugs, warn doctors

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MSF bemoans 'tragic' shortage of antiretroviral drugs as new drug-resistant tuberculosis strand causes further concern

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09 May 2012
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Burkina Faso
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Extreme hunger in east Africa and the Sahel

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Pictures of starving children give donors an instant justification to release aid. Predictions of starvation, however accurate, do not

After the hunger crisis that engulfed east Africa last summer, there was plenty for the world to think about. After all, we'd been warned it was coming – the first alerts of a potential crisis came the previous year. But not enough was done to avert it, and we now know that failure cost tens of thousands of lives and millions of dollars in aid money.

04 May 2012
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South Sudan (Republic of)
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Sudan and South Sudan fighting risks children being sucked into conflict

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Save the Children says displaced children are at risk of harm and could be sucked into the conflict as child soldiers

Children face increasing risk of death, injury and recruitment by armed groups in an upsurge of fighting between Sudan and South Sudan that has forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes, a charity said on Friday.

03 May 2012
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South Sudan (Republic of)
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UK's ambitious South Sudan aid plan for girls' education takes a hit

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Britain takes tough line on aid in response to South Sudan shutting down oil production, but US presses ahead with development work and humanitarian aid

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02 May 2012
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Mali
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Why were regional institutions unable to avert Mali's political crisis?

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Burkina Faso and Niger look likelier to resolve Mali's problems than Ecowas, a reality the international community should note

Read the full post by Vikki Chambers in the Guardian's Poverty Matters Blog.

01 May 2012
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Afghanistan
Taliban enforcer squads accused of ruthless control in Nuristan

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Isolated Afghan border area heavily regulated by shrouded 'vice and virtue police' said to surpass even hardline Taliban

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01 May 2012
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Mali
Women's rights in Mali 'set back 50 years' by new 'Family Code' law

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Opposition to legislation dashes equality hopes in West African country's strongly patriarchal society

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01 May 2012
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Haiti
Haiti's former soldiers demand reinstatement of army

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Up to 3,000 rogue soldiers challenge authority of government and UN troops by staging parades and seizing abandoned bases

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30 Apr 2012
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Pakistan
Khalil Dale kidnap and execution forces rethink of aid work in Pakistan

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Humanitarian agencies concerned over growing risks of running projects in the country after British aid worker's beheading

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30 Apr 2012
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Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)
Tough EU transparency laws could change lives in resource-rich Congo

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We don't know how much money the Democratic Republic of the Congo government gets from the exploitation of our oil, gas, minerals and timber. That must change

Read the full post by Joseph Banga in the Guardian's Poverty Matters Blog.