Billions for Credit Crunch - and for Dying Mothers in Africa?

 

Mothers in Afar with their childrenWith US$1,000 billion injected by governments to stabilise the world’s money markets in the last week, AMREF asks world leaders meeting on Thursday 25 September if they will now commit the additional US$5 billion required to help save the 225,000 women who die needlessly in Africa each year.

 

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Giving Baby Martha a Firm Grip and a Smile

Little Martha Ayacko picks up a dried reed and sweeps a heap of soil into a corner. She scoops some with her right hand and makes to transfer it into her left, but it just pours to the ground. She tries this several times, patiently, without success. Read On>>

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