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1. Invitation for Expressions of Interest from Leading Organizations and Institutions Participating in Disaster Risk Reduction Education and Capacity Building Initiatives in Africa | African Union
   23-10-2012 to africa, african union, drr by mpetal
2. Nigeria: Aba - Those Illegal Structures Must Come Down (All Africa, Sep 17 2012)
   Artcile suggesting urban renewal in Aba, Nigeria, making part of the case on the protection of roads from flooding.
   18-09-2012 to africa, eminent domain, flooding, redevelopment, renewal, urban by ian odonnell
3. In Niger, Child Marriage on Rise Due to Hunger (NYTimes, Sep 16 2012)
   16-09-2012 to africa, drought, gender, impact, indirect consequences, niger, social impacts by ian odonnell
4. The African tech-hub boom (BBC, Jul 2012)
   21-07-2012 to africa, communication, development, mobile, technology by ian odonnell
5. How Africa tweets: visualised (Guardian, Jan 2012)
   Visualisation to show the distribution of tweets in Africa.
   03-07-2012 to africa, communication, research, social media, tweets, twitter by ian odonnell
6. China Red Cross to expand mission (ChinaDaily, May 10 2012)
   Article about launch of the Sino-Africa Red Cross and Red Crescent Forum through which the China Red Cross is providing support to Red Cross national societies in Africa.
   21-06-2012 to africa, china, collaboration, development, humanitarian, red cross by ian odonnell
7. Responding to Floods in West Africa: Lessons from Evaluation (World Bank, Nov. 2010)
   Evaluation note prepared by the the World Bank Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) to reflect on relevant experience applicable to the West African floods.
   04-02-2011 to africa, floods, lessons, recovery, response, west africa, world bank by ian odonnell
8. Wake Up Ghana; We Could Go The Way Of Haiti: Series Finale (GhanaWeb, May 09 2010)
   Finale in a series of articles looking at the implications of an earthquake in Accra.
   10-05-2010 to africa, earthquake, ghana, haiti, media, planning, policy, preparedness by ian odonnell
9. Urban Finance | New Opportunities (UN-HABITAT)
   Descirption of UN-Habitat's use of revolving funds through Local Finance Facilities to support housing development and reconstruction.
   16-04-2010 to africa, cities, financing, habitat, housing, reconstruction, urban by ian odonnell
10. EPROM - Entrepreneurial Programming and Research On Mobiles
    Program to foster mobile phone-related research and entrepreneurship.
    03-09-2009 to africa, cell, communications, mobile, phone, sms, social networking, technology by ian odonnell

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