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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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
ZIMBABWE: 'Money Comes First, Health Second' By Phyllis Kachere HARARE - With half her body immersed in a muddy red pond, Esther Nyarambi closely inspects the contents of her wooden panning dish, locally known as zamba. Having spent the entire day pounding gold-bearing rock, she hopes her efforts will be rewarded with even the smallest nugget of gold. MORE >>
SOUTH AFRICA: Young, Educated and Unemployed By Miriam Mannak CAPE TOWN - Unemployment among young South Africans is hovering at 30 percent, shooting up to over 60 percent for youths in their late teens and early twenties. But tertiary education and skills development seem not to be making much of a dent in what is now regarded as a crisis. 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 >>
TRADE-MAURITIUS: Paradise Island, Pirates’ Den By Nasseem Ackbarally PORT LOUIS - Pirated goods - from music and vehicle parts to clothes, perfumes and software - are sold at ridiculously low prices on the streets or in local shops. This is big business in the paradise-like island state of Mauritius. 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 >>
POVERTY-MAURITIUS: Labouring Through a Class Four Cyclone By Nasseem Ackbarally PORT-LOUIS - Thousands of workers in the textile and manufacturing industry in Mauritius have been forced into unemployment and poverty within the last few months, as factories announced multiple rounds of job cuts due to the global financial crisis. MORE >>
ECONOMY-NIGERIA: Fears of Further Pain By Sam Olukoya LAGOS - With no formal education, Mama Ibeji may not be tracking the global economic crisis in the newspapers. But from her little roadside restaurant in Makoko, a Lagos suburb, she can tell that all is not well with the Nigerian economy. MORE >>
ECONOMY-ZAMBIA: Hard Times on the Copperbelt By Kelvin Kachingwe Luanshya, ZAMBIA - Nowhere in Zambia is the impact of the global financial crisis being felt harder than in the copper and cobalt-rich province of the Copperbelt. MORE >>
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The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) is a regional arm of the UN with 53 African member states. Its primary responsibility is to encourage the growth of the economic and social sectors of the continent.
