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Despite Economic Growth, Food Insecurity Lingers in Africa
By Brian Ngugi
NAIROBI - Everlyne Wanjiku, a single mother of five, has earned a living selling vegetables in the sprawling Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, for over three decades. And even though her earnings were meagre, she was able to provide all her children with a tertiary education.
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Less Politics, More Economic Development
Miriam Gathigah interviews MICHAEL SUDARKASA, chief executive officer of the African Business Group.
NAIROBI - Economic and social growth have become the heart of the development agenda of the bloc of leading emerging economies known as IBSA (India, Brazil and South Africa) since it began focusing less on politics.
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Q&A
Women Farmers Are Key to a Food-Secure Africa
Busani Bafana interviews JANE KARUKU, the first woman president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
BULAWAYO - While women constitute the majority of food producers, processors and marketers in Africa, their role in the agricultural sector still remains a minor one because of cultural and social barriers.
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Q&A
Skipping Lunch to Afford a Mobile Phone in Africa
Kristin Palitza interviews GABRIELLE GAUTHEY, executive vice president of global telecommunications provider Alcatel Lucent
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - On a continent of over one billion people, where half the population have mobile phones, the use of mobile communication and internet technologies is crucial to boost development in Africa.
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Disarmament Sparks Violence in South Sudan
By Jared Ferrie
JUBA - Civil society groups are calling on the United Nations peacekeeping mission to withdraw support from a disarmament programme they say could spark further violence in South Sudan’s volatile Jonglei state.
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Hit by Fighting, Now by Prices
By Charlton Doki
JUBA - As thousands of people flee the conflict in South Sudan’s northern border states, increasing numbers have also been forced to leave their homes and towns in search of affordable food.
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Kenya "Becoming Economic Heartbeat of Africa"
By Isaiah Esipisu
NAIROBI - When Kenya’s newly announced geothermal power generation project comes online, it will turn the East African country into an economic powerhouse in the region.
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Intra-African Trade or Global Integration: A Chicken-and-Egg Dilemma?
By Isolda Agazzi
GENEVA - Though the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has long held that trade between African countries is too low, experts at the South Centre, an inter-governmental think tank of developing countries, say intra-continental trade is already significant in manufactured goods and promises a new path to industrialisation.
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U.S. Patriot Act Kept Somalia Starving
By Linus Atarah
HELSINKI - When war-torn Somalia was also ravaged by a drought-induced famine last year, which killed tens of thousands and displaced over a million people, international media was quick to blame the Islamist Al-Shabaab for blocking humanitarian assistance from reaching its zone of control in southern Somalia.
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Q&A
Increasing Investment Opportunities in Africa
Kristin Palitza interviews NICKY NEWTON-KING, the first female chief executive officer of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - More than three years after the start of the global economic crisis, which has had a considerable impact on African trade, investments and gross domestic product, investment prospects on the continent are increasing.
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Returning Sudanese Child Soldiers Their Childhood
By Andrew Green*
JUBA - As the process of reintegrating South Sudan’s child soldiers into their old lives begins soon, the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army renewal of its lapsed commitment to release all child soldiers from its ranks in March could mean that within two years children will no longer constitute part of the country’s militia groups.
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