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African Poverty Assessment

We hear much about the “doom-and-gloom” of the times; however, underlying the raucous is a positive story-line that needs to be harped on (at least a tad). A positive story of the past quarter century, especially in Africa, is the reduction in poverty prevalence. This is not to say that the continent is out of the woods, but that now challenge is to translate Africa’s steady economic growth into social progress and stronger societies all around. // read more

Bring Back Our Girls

Marking the One Year Anniversary of the Abduction of the Chibok Schoolgirls. By Troy Augustine.

04/14/2015 Washington DC (International Christian Concern) – Today is the anniversary of Boko Haram (BH) kidnapping 276 young girls from Chibok in northern Nigeria. On the night of April 14, 2014, Islamist militants from BH stormed the Chibok Government Secondary School and kidnapped scores of mostly Christian teenage girls. Subsequently, BH released a statement saying that they would sell the girls off as slaves into a lifetime of forced marriage and sexual servitude. We urge all of those concerned to remember and pray for the 219 that remain in captivity. // read more

Has Foreign Aid been a Disaster for Africa?

Many believe that aid to Africa is crucial to lift people out of poverty. But not Dambisa Moyo. In her controversial and yet quite compelling book “Dead Aid,” she argues that foreign aid has been a disaster for Africa and must be stopped. Moyo was born and raised in Zambia, but educated at Oxford and Harvard. She has worked for both the World Bank and Goldman Sachs.