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TRADE: What Will China’s Legacy in Africa be by 2049? By Stephanie Nieuwoudt CAPE TOWN - With its recent history of tremendous economic growth, China has a few lessons to teach Africans. But African governments should be vigilant in ensuring that their countries also reap benefits from their relations with China. MORE >>
MOZAMBIQUE: Watching the Water Flow Away By Zenaida Machado MAPUTO - Less than 100 kilometres from the second-largest dam in Africa, women walk with their babies strapped on their back, water pails balanced on their heads. MORE >>
AFRICA: "Grasp the Benefits of Trade with BRIC Emerging Markets" By Jedi Ramalapa JOHANNESBURG - While economists at a prominent South African bank are excited about burgeoning investment by Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) in Africa, they are vague on the question of the extent to which it will benefit the majority of Africans. Ensuring this, they believe, is the responsibility of African states themselves. MORE >>
Q&A: Heavy Vehicle Market Taking Off in Africa Kester Kenn Klomegah interviews ALBERT BAKOV, Russian businessperson MOSCOW - Russian president Dmitry Medvedev’s recent official visit to a handful of African countries has provided new impetus to Russian business’s interest in the region. MORE >>
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Journey of a Working River: the Orange-Senqu By Patrick Burnett KATSE, Lesotho - In the steep valleys of Lesotho's Maluti mountains, women carry yellow plastic buckets of water across fields of dark-brown earth; a group of men form a human chain to pass rocks between them to build a small dam wall across a mountain stream; clothes are being washed in rivers; and men draped in blankets ride donkeys or horses along the roadside. MORE >>
MALI: Technology Transfer So Slow "We’ll Have to Copy Like China" By Isolda Agazzi BAMAKO - Cars and motorcycles are stuck because of the heavy rains that have drenched Mali’s capital for the past few days. It is late afternoon and the water, mud and damaged fruit from nearby stalls make the journey for those heading home to celebrate Ramadan even more treacherous. MORE >>
ENERGY-CAMEROON: Dam Project Questioned By Ngala Killian Chimtom LOM-PANGAR, Cameroon - Construction has begun on a new dam at the confluence of the Lom and Pangar rivers in Cameroon. The government is pushing the project as key to addressing an energy shortfall, allowing for economic growth; observers believe the plan may only increase the country's vulnerability to drought. MORE >>
CAMEROON: Fears for Forest as Dam Construction Begins By Ngala Killian Chimtom* - IPS/IFEJ LOM-PANGAR, Cameroon - Crouched on a low wooden stool in front of his mud hut in the village of Pangar, Alain Selembe puffs away at his clay pipe, his gaze lost in the surrounding forest, quite oblivious to the noise made by his two playing daughters. All he hears is the rumbling of bulldozers opening up a 30 kilometre road from Deng Deng village to the confluence of the Lom and Pangar rivers, where the government plans to construct a new dam. MORE >>
ENVIRONMENT-NIGERIA: Playing With Fire Analysis by Khadija Sharife DURBAN - Nigeria's gas flare-out date has once again been extended - this time to 2011. The decision follows 25 years of political procrastination by the federal government and illegal behaviour on the part of major oil multinationals engaged in flaring associated gas (AG), the byproduct of oil production in the Niger Delta. MORE >>
ENVIRONMENT-MAURITIUS: Hold Your Fire By Nasseem Ackbarally * - IPS/IFEJ PORT-LOUIS - Mauritius appears to have a happy problem with the 400,000 tons of waste it produces each year. The island’s only landfill is full and the government must decide whether to turn to incinerating waste - generating electricity in the process - or to compost it, to the benefit of farmers. MORE >>
AFRICA: FAO Paper On Land Grab Is "Wishy-Washy" By Julio Godoy BERLIN - The boom in the acquisition of arable land in Africa by foreign companies and governments has stirred an international debate between international institutions such as the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and non-governmental groups and independent experts. MORE >>
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