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2008

June 17, 2008 | The Christian Science Monitor
How a Kenyan village tripled its corn harvest By Eliza Barclay

June 9, 2008 | Financial Times
Malawi cultivates cash gains for its farmers By Alan Beattie PDF

June 5, 2008 | Mail & Guardian
Zuma: Rising food prices a time bomb PDF

June 3, 2008 | Financial Times
Seeds of change By Alan Beattie PDF

June 2, 2008 | AllAfrica.com
Uganda: Churning Money From Banana Leaves By Otushabire Tibyangye PDF

May 23, 2008 | Agence de Presse Sénégalaise (French)
Louga : le représentant-résident du PNUD salue l’amorce de développement notée à Léona

May 19, 2008 | The East African
Celtel to Give Internet Services to Millennium Villages By Philip Ngunjiri PDF

May 11, 2008 | The Sunday Times
Malawi shines in small-scale farming By Karen Msiska PDF

May 10, 2008 | The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)
Toll-Free Rural Phones Coming PDF

May 8, 2008 | BBC World Service
The food crisis in Africa By Madeleine Morris

May 7, 2008 | Panapress
UN poverty plan ignites mass school enrolments in Ghana By Kennedy Abwao PDF

May 5, 2008 | South African Broadcasting Corporation
UN, economist say locals must aid development By Crystal Orderson and Malusi Ntanzi PDF

April 16, 2008 | The Japan Times
Soccer philanthropist Nakata signs on for exhibition match

April 14, 2008 | New York Times
Bond Trader to Sell Rare Stamps for Charity

March 13, 2008 | Government of Japan
The Government of Japan through the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security extends support to Millennium Villages

2007

December 12, 2007 | Associated Press
Rwanda Genocide Victims, Killers Meet PDF

December 9, 2007 |  Asahi Shimbun
Changing Africa PDF

December 5, 2007 |  CNN
Rwanda Rising

December 2, 2007 |  New York Times
Ending Famine, Simply by Ignoring the Experts

November 23, 2007 |  The Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa)
Israeli Experts Train Farmers in Hawzen On Modern Beekeeping PDF

October 29, 2007 |  People Magazine
John Legend: Against All Odds in Africa

October 23, 2007 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
African Millennium Villages PDF

October 8, 2007 |  ABC News
Musician John Legend Visits Millennium Village

October 16 , 2007 | Guardian (Tanzanian)
Tanzania impresses UN chief Ban Ki-moon
By Assah MwambenePDF

October 16, 2007 | Irish Examiner
Africa: Rising to a global challenge By Juno McEnroe PDF

September 26, 2007 | HardTalk on BBC
Sarah Montague talks to the UN Secretary General's chief adviser on the Millennium Goals, Jeffrey Sachs.

September 11, 2007 | Svenska Dagbladet
Fattiga byar får mobilnä By Tomas Augustsson PDF

September 10, 2007 | BBC
Mobiles for the 'world's poorest'

September 10, 2007 | CNN
Ericsson and Columbia's Earth Institute join forces to empower Millennium VIllages through communications

July 28, 2007 | Sunday Vision (Ugandan)
Bitter Water to Sweet By John Odyek PDF

July 2, 2007 | New Vision (Ugandan)
United Nations Praises Country's UPE By Arthur Baguma PDF

July 2007 | Vanity Fair
Jeffrey Sachs's $200 Billion Dream By Nina Munk PDF
Jeffrey Sachs—visionary economist, savoir of Bolivia, Poland, and other struggling nations, adviser to the U.N. and movie stars—won't settle for less than the global eradication of extreme poverty. And he hasn't got a second to waste.

June 21, 2007 | The Weekly Observer (Ugandan)
Pilot Millennium Village gives hope to the poor By Richard M. Kavuma PDF

June 7, 2007 | The Economist
Going up or down?   (MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA: Kenya) PDF
As the world's group of rich countries discusses aid to Africa, a correspondent who lived in Kenya four decades ago looks glumly at it now—but sees glints of hope.

June 1, 2007 | Frankfurter Rundschau (German)
In Mwandama geht es bergauf By Johannes Dietrich PDF
Schickt kein Geld, schickt Buchprüfer By Steven Geyer PDF

May 31, 2007 | Der Spiegel (German)
Ein Businessplan für die Armen By Marc Hujer PDF

May 26, 2007 | Der Tagesspiegel (German)
Die Goldene Saat By Harald Schumaan PDF

May 20, 2007 | Voice of America 
Millennium Village in Senegal starts spending donor dollars By Phuong Tran PDF

April 20, 2007 | Daily Nation (Kenyan)
The one hunger-ravaged villages that have plenty of food and glory By Daniel Otieno PDF

April 2007 | Mail & Guardian
Kenyan Millennium Village tests poverty-reduction goals
By Beatrice Debut PDF

March 27, 2007 | Agence France Presse (French)
Dans l'ouest du Kenya, un rêve devient réalité: la pauvreté recule PDF

March 25, 2007 | Sunday Standard (Kenyan)
A mission to turn despair into hope By Mangoa Mosota PDF

March 13, 2007 | Natürlich (Swiss)>
Die Insel der Seiligen PDF

March 12, 2007 | Newsweek
DEMOCRACY - Big Man Walking By Elizabeth Dickinson PDF

Jan 23, 2007 | The Guardian
Crib Sheet
By Will Woodward, John Crace and Francis Beckett PDF

Jan 18, 2007 | The Nation (Kenyan)
UN official links poverty to malaria By Kaburu Mugambi PDF

Jan 17, 2007 | Reuters
Aid for poor guarantees security for rich – Sachs By Jeremy Clarke PDF

Jan 15, 2007 | The Guardian
Tories pledge $1bn a year to wipe out malaria By Will Woodward PDF

2006

December 28, 2006 | Die Zeit (German)
Die Rückkehr der Retter By Thomas Fischermann and Claas Pieper PDF

Oct 26, 2006 | La Repubblica (Italian)
Il cantiere della felicità By Laura Putti PDF

Oct 19,  2006 | Svenska Dagbladet (Swedish)
Omtvistat projekt ger nytt hopp By Peter Grensund PDF

Oct 6, 2006 | Hamburger Abendblatt (German)
Raus aus der Armutsfalle - das Wunder von Sauri PDF

Sept 21, 2006 | The Independent
In the village where aid makes a vital difference By Steve Bloomfield in Sauri, Kenya PDF

Sept 17, 2006 | Jeune Afrique (French)
Milliardaires au grand coeur
By Marianne Meunier PDF

Sept 13, 2006 | ABC News
A Big Boost in the Fight Against Poverty
By Martin Seemungal PDF

Sept 13, 2006  | The New York Times
Philanthropist Gives $50 Million to Help Aid the Poor in Africa
By Celia W. Dugger PDF

Sept 7, 2006 | Berliner Zeitung (German)
Das Wunder von Sauri
By Stefan Ehlert PDF

July 29, 2006 | Süeddeutsche Zeitung
Ausweg der Armutsfalle By Moritz Koch PDF

July 20, 2006 | The Philadelphia Inquirer
Big changes in poor villages By Douglas Pike PDF

July 6, 2006 | Nature Magazine
Development: Harvest of hope By Sarah Tomlin PDF

June 12, 2006 | Associated Press
African village revitalized by farm program that could teach rich countries how to help poor ones
By Chris Tomlinson PDF

June 2006  | Oprah Magazine
To Halve the Have-Nots
By R.B. PDF

May 29, 2006 | Deutsche Presse Agentur
Kenyan village experiments to slash poverty on the cheap
By Ebba Kalondo PDF

April 27, 2006 | The Economist
The Magnificent Seven PDF (MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA: African poverty)
How a few simple reforms can lift African villages out of poverty.

March 6, 2006 | People Magazine
Malawi, Africa: Special Report on Gift Msunzi
By Richard Jerome PDF

March 2006 | Die Zeit Wissen (German)
Endlich gibt es sauberes Wasser By Stefanie Schramm PDF

2005

Sept 30, 2005 | BBC News
In pictures: 'Millennium Village' in Kenya
(Slideshow)

July 30, 2005 | The Japan Times
Africa: moving beyond chronic emergency By Cesar Chelala PDF

July 5, 2005 | The Australian
From dirt poor to soil rich in just five years
By Xan Rice PDF

July 4, 2005 | CNN
Christiane Amanpour special report from Koraro, Ethiopia: Turning a village around
PDF

April 27, 2005 | The New York Times
In Ethiopian Hills, Five Years to Create Something Out of Nothing By Helene Cooper PDF

April 4, 2005 | The New York Times
Kenyan Village Serves as Test Case in Fight on Poverty By Marc Lacey PDF

 

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