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WASHINGTON, Mar 16 (IPS) - Poverty is on the rise in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and various forms of corruption threaten to undermine the impact of investments made to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the continent, said the World Bank in a report released Monday on Africa's development.

WASHINGTON, Mar 16 (IPS) - Representatives from seven North African and Sahelian states convened in Algiers on Tuesday to discuss the growing threat of al Qaeda's North African affiliate in the region.

WINDHOEK, Mar 16 (IPS) - "At home we have a bar," says grade seven learner David Bravo* (14). "When my mother puts on the music I cannot concentrate on (my) schoolwork anymore. Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I just sit there and watch the people."

MBABANE , Mar 16 (IPS) - Her swollen feet are a constant reminder to Sanele Matsebula that she needs to take her medication.

JERUSALEM, Mar 17 (IPS) - Less than a hundred days to go, and the world looks on, often more with scepticism than anticipation.

Nigeria's acting president, Goodluck Jonathan, dissolves the cabinet five weeks after assuming executive powers.

Seven Chinese fishermen kidnapped from their boats off Cameroon's disputed Bakassi peninsula are released.

Nearly a quarter of a billion people escaped from a life in the slums over the past decade, the United Nations says.

It is more than 20 years since the world wide web was officially launched and here at the BBC we have been examining the extraordinary power of the internet

South African police use rubber bullets to disperse children protesting at a rapper's court appearance on murder charges.