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DEVELOPMENT-KENYA: Fears Over New Land Deal By Joyce Mulama NAIROBI - Concern is mounting in Kenya that the government has leased a big slice of agricultural land to the Qatari foreign investors to produce food for export. MORE >>
AGRICULTURE: Biotechnology: Africa Must Not Be Left Behind By Wambi Michael KAMPALA - Africa must embrace agricultural biotechnology or risk being excluded from a major technological revolution that has had increased food production in the Europe, North America and Asia. MORE >>
AFRICA: Civil Society to AU: Investment Must Address Marginalisation By Diletta Varlese, Terna Gyuse and Joyce Mulama Sirte, LIBYA, CAPE TOWN and NAIROBI - No gathering hosted by Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi is ever dull, and the Thirteenth Ordinary Session of the African Union, concluding in Sirte, Libya today has not disappointed. MORE >>
TRADE: Who’s Harming Fish Stocks? Trawlers or Artisanal Fishers? By Isolda Agazzi GENEVA - Red tunas, sharks, rays and cods may soon disappear from our tables. Negotiations are ongoing at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to reduce the subsidies that contribute to this catastrophe. These talks foresee exceptions for developing countries, but small fishers may have to turn to other sources of livelihood. MORE >>
LIBERIA: Controversial Mayor is Talk of the Town By Rebecca Murray MONROVIA - Myaha Johnson sits with her family beneath a flimsy shelter of black plastic, looking with despair at the charred remains of what used to be their home. Mary Broh, Monrovia’s controversial mayor-designate, had just swept through the neighbourhood with her task force, vigorously tearing down residential structures along the back road, including their own. MORE >>
ECONOMY-UGANDA: Traders Go Down as Prices Go Up By Wambi Michael KAMPALA - With the world economy in the grip of a credit crunch, traders and consumers in Uganda are struggling with price inflation and the depreciation of the country’s currency, the Ugandan shilling, against the dollar. Especially importers have not been able to bring goods in which were ordered when prices were lower. MORE >>
HEALTH-SENEGAL: Fistula Sufferers Left To Their Fate By Koffigan E. Adigbli DAKAR - In Senegal’s southern region, 58 percent of deliveries take place at home without any medical assistance, according to state reproductive health officials in Kolda, a town 425 km from the capital, Dakar. Women in the region suffer from exceptionally high rates of fistula. MORE >>
TRADE: ECOWAS Delay on EPA Allows Ghana to Re-Think By Francis Kokutse ACCRA - There are conflicting signals about whether west African countries will sign an economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union, as the original deadline of Jun 30 has been postponed and stakeholders hold different views on the new deadline of end Oct. This may still allow Ghana to re-think its interim EPA. MORE >>
ECONOMY-AFRICA: Deny Neoliberal Consensus Christi van der Westhuizen interviews PATRICK BOND, professor and activist CAPE TOWN - Africa should ‘‘deny consensus’’ at multilateral level to ensure that the region’s interests are taken seriously, says Professor Patrick Bond speaking on how Africa should approach this week’s high-level United Nations’ meeting on the global economic crisis. MORE >>
ENVIRONMENT-MALAWI: Elephants Out of Harm's Way By Charles Mkoka* - IPS/IFEJ LILONGWE - A South African capture team has almost completed the translocation of a herd of elephants from the Phirilongwe forest reserve located in a communal management area in southern Malawi. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT-ZIMBABWE: Investor Absence Fuels Retrenchments By Ignatius Banda BULAWAYO - Forty-year-old Thelma Dube was this month told by her long-time employer to stay home. She will be called back to work when business picks up. Her husband got the same instruction, as did hundreds of other workers at the company Textile Mills in Zimbabwe’s second largest city. MORE >>
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