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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.
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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.
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RIGHTS-AFRICA: AU Heeds Perpetrators Not Victims
By Diletta Varlese
Sirte, LIBYA - The final day of the African Union summit has been dedicated to the issue of the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, charged with seven counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, rape and torture.
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POLITICS-BOTSWANA: Parties Block Women Candidates for Upcoming Elections
By Ephraim Nsingo
GABORONE - As Botswana prepares for general elections in October, gender activists are protesting against the lack of female parliamentary candidates.
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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.
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KENYA: A Role For Men in Gender Equality
By Joyce Mulama
NAIROBI - The recent Gender Festival in Kenya has underlined the important role that male activism can play in achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment.
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DR-CONGO: U.N.-Backed Troops Abusing Civilians, HRW Says
By Marina Litvinsky
WASHINGTON - United Nations-backed Congolese armed forces conducting intensified military operations in eastern and northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have failed to protect civilians from brutal rebel retaliatory attacks and instead are themselves attacking and raping Congolese civilians, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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AFRICA: Maternal Mortality, A Human Rights Catastrophe
Analysis by Rosemary Okello and Terna Gyuse
BRUSSELS and CAPE TOWN - The right to the highest attainable standard of health: not the most fashionable of human rights, but the limits on people's enjoyment of their right to health often coincide with continuing inequalities behind claims of economic growth or political reform.
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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.
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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.
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