Rapports

Key development issues and rationale for Bank involvement Poverty is widespread in Niger. With its population currently estimated at 15.2 million, Niger is one of the world's poorest countries (ranked 167th out of 169 countries on 2010 UNDP's Human Development Index).…

ABSTRACT In developing countries where access to and use of renewable natural resources essential to rural livelihoods are highly contested, improving cooperation in their management is increasingly seen as an important element in strategies for peacebuilding, conflict prevention, and longer-term social-ecological…

Rwanda's engaged government and dense and active network of grassroots associations, community-based (CBOs), faith-based (FBOs), and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are succeeding in making headway against the HIV/AIDS epidemic while also handling other public health crises, chronic food insecurity, and the…

Marie, a 22-year-old Congolese woman, has suffered long-term sexual abuse. She is now trying to rebuild her life thanks to the ICRC programme of psychosocial and economic support in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Marie's story is…

GANTA, Liberia, Aug 25 (UNHCR) - Liberians impatient to return home after 14 years of civil war are finding out that it takes more than resilience to begin a new life in the face of so much destruction, lack…

Commemorating the tenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today paid tribute to the resilience and dignity shown by Rwandans in recovering from their national trauma, and voiced regret over the international community's failure to stop the…

"Keep praying for us. That's what's carried us so far." With that, Gyude Bryant, the chairman of Liberia's interim government, thanked U.S. church leaders and representatives Thursday (Feb. 5) for their continued support as the west African nation continues to…