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December 13, 2014 | The Economist
The Fight Against Ebola: Donating the Cure
Doctors start clinical trials with the blood of survivors.
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September 10, 2014 | The Economist
Uganda: Fresh Water in a Village Called Death
Getting water to poor communities may sound straightforward: dig a well, put in a pump and hand out water filters. But as many NGOs and aid agencies have found, it is a lot more complicated than that.
December 30, 2013 | The Economist
Madagascar's Election: A Nervous Wait
As Madagascar awaits a result in its presidential election, divisive legal challenges loom.
September 16, 2013 | The Economist
Libya’s Opposition: Where Green Refuses to Fade
Muammar Qaddafi’s hometown band of loyalists still display his favorite color.
September 13, 2013 | The Economist
Libya’s Ghost Town: When Bygones Aren’t
The people of two rival towns seem determined to hate each other forever.
September 10, 2013 | The Economist
Libya’s Government and the Militias: Is the Tide Turning?
The defeat of an Islamist militia raises hope that law and order may return.
July 23, 2013 | The Economist
Polio Vaccines in India: Injecting Competition
Will the world eradicate polio? If it does, some of the credit may go to a 73-year-old billionaire horse-breeder from the Indian city of Pune.
November 30, 2012 | The Economist
Britain's Foreign Aid: Follow the Money
The trend-setting British aid agency DfID is establishing requirements that recipients of aid funding disclose how they are actually spending the money. Transparency like this could be a game-changer.
November 20, 2012 | The Economist
Kenya: A Conversation with John Githongo
Nobody in Kenya knows the consequences of corruption better than John Githongo, who talks to Sam Loewenberg about the cruel intersection of politics, natural resources, and foreign aid.
September 16, 2012 | The Economist
Burma's Kachin State: Still Ablaze
After decades of isolation, a wide-ranging push towards reform by Burma’s new government has thawed its relations with the West at dizzying speed.
July 12, 2012 | The Economist
Myanmar's Minorities: Caught in the Middle
Some 75,000 ethnic Kachins have been displaced in northern Burma (also known as Myanmar) and another 10,000 have fled across the Chinese border. Is this the new, “softer” Burma?
January 13, 2012 | The Economist
Nigeria: The Spreading Northern Insurgency
The government must think hard about how to tackle an Islamist uprising that may have less to do with religion than the rebels claim.