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AFRICA: Mortgages and mortality

Sunday, March 08, 2009

Overheated real estate markets in rich countries and newborns’ fates in poor ones – one phenomenon will inevitably alter the other if the...

Tourism in Gambia takes a hit from financial crisis

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Thursday, January 01, 2009

Marketing director Lamin Saho at the Gambian Tourism Authority (GTA) said room occupancy was around 42 percent, down from about 60 percent in the...

CONGO: Financial crisis threatens timber jobs

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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

BRAZZAVILLE Tuesday, November 25, 2008 (IRIN) - Guy-Blaise Bakala, a timber worker in Pointe-Noire in the south of the Republic of Congo, has been...

GLOBAL: Tight belts, tough choices for charities

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Humanitarian organisations face tough choices if the global financial crisis affects their income, as some analysts predict. Although it is too soon...

GLOBAL: Financial crisis could cut official aid by 30%

Sunday, November 09, 2008

The financial crisis is expected to have a severe impact on humanitarian funding, with some analysts projecting cuts in official development...

GLOBAL: NGOs pare down in face of financial crisis

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Some of the biggest development and humanitarian NGOs are laying off staff or revising programmes for 2009 as their income streams flatten because of...