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HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Returning Sick - HIV, Illness, Death and Migration
By Siyabonga Kalipa and Brenda Nkuna
CAPE TOWN - It's a Wednesday afternoon at the Joe Gqabi bus terminus in Philippi, Cape Town, and ticket touts scramble to recruit passengers wanting to travel to the rural Eastern Cape, a 1,000 kilometre, 16-hour haul away.
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DEVELOPMENT: World's Poor Offer Lessons in Bank Study
By Marina Litvinsky
WASHINGTON - To be successful, poverty-reducing programmes must be informed by the lives and experiences of the millions of poor people around the world and emphasise economic opportunity, says a study released Wednesday by the World Bank.
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ENVIRONMENT: Climate Change Threatens Livelihoods Along Africa's Coast
By Miriam Mannak
CAPE TOWN - Environmental experts warn that climate change will lead to oceanic acidification and increase surface water temperatures, especially around the African continent.
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TECHNOLOGY: Fab Labs Channel Your Inner Scientist
By Enrique Gili*
SAN DIEGO, California - Inside the confines of a modest 275-square-metre office space in this southern California city, the human imagination is running wild.
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HEALTH-AFRICA: Who Is To Blame for the Crisis?
By Kristin Palitza
BAMAKO - Health systems on the continent are riddled with inadequate policies, strategies, lack of institutional capacity, poor scientific review mechanisms and weak funding for research in the public and private sector, said Luis Sambo, regional director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Africa.
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KENYA: Failing Grade For Free Primary Education?
By Najum Mushtaq
NAIROBI - When in 2003 Kenya followed its neighbours Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda and Malawi in introducing free and compulsory primary education for all, the response from the public as well as international donors was overwhelming.
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RIGHTS-EGYPT: New Family Laws: A Success Story?
By Aya Batrawy
CAIRO - It was a love story of sorts and one that led to marriage. But 18 months later Nayrouz filed for divorce, making her part of a growing number of Egyptian women who are leaving their marriages. One in three marriages in this highly traditional and predominantly Muslim society fails within its first year, according to government figures.
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DEVELOPMENT: Signs of Hope for Ethiopia's Children
By Kathryn Strachan
JOHANNESBURG - Amid the hardship facing Ethiopia's children, there are signs that conditions may be improving and that children's lives are changing for the better.
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AFRICA: Research and Tradition Could Save Environment
By Stephanie Nieuwoudt
CAPE TOWN - Africa risks losing up to 50 percent of its indigenous species over the next century due to global warming.
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KENYA: Predicting Weather With Science and Spider Webs
By Kathryn Strachan
JOHANNESBURG - When the magungu bird flies higher in the sky than usual and seems to float in the air in its passage from south to north, the Abasuba people living on the islands of Kenya's Lake Victoria and on the highlands near the lake know the rains are on their way and that it is time to plant.
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ENVIRONMENT-KENYA: Threat to Pastoralists' Way of Life
By Najum Mushtaq
NAIROBI - Ole Kaparo works as a school teacher in Nairobi, though his family still herds cattle in the Masai pastures of the north Rift Valley province. Five years ago, during a prolonged spell of drought, he left this traditional life to seek work in the city.
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EGYPT-REFUGEES: Stepping Stones Across the Desert
By Aya Batrawy
CAIRO - "When I left Darfur, I left the hell of death and entered the hell of life. That is the only difference," said Galoud*, one of the many Darfuri refugees who have escaped to Egypt.
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DEVELOPMENT-TANZANIA: Lighting Up Women's Lives
By Sarah McGregor
ARUSHA - Anneth Laizer shoved her kerosene lantern onto the top shelf and switched on the lights after her home in Tanzania's third-largest city, Arusha, was connected to electricity earlier this year.
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DEVELOPMENT-ETHIOPIA: Understanding Poverty's Impact on Children
By Sisay Abebe
ADDIS ABABA - When the school bell rings, Alemtsehay and her three younger sisters rush home to change out of their school uniforms and into tattered clothes to go out begging around Bole Road, one of Addis Ababa's smarter areas.
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Q&A: Finding New Ways To Reach Farmers
Interview with Frances Kimmins, director of Policy and Partnership for the Research Into Use Programme
PRETORIA - When beekeepers in central and eastern Uganda got vouchers to go online at internet cafés, their most popular query was how to treat bee stings. A local agricultural information provider replied in Baganda, the local language.
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SOUTH AFRICA: Measuring the Carbon Footprint of Fruit and Wine
By Stephanie Nieuwoudt
CAPE TOWN - In an effort to stay competitive in a global market where increasing demands are made by consumers for 'green' products, South African fruit and wine farmers have launched an initiative to determine the environmental impact of their industries. The research could challenge the idea that exported products from the developing world have a higher environmental cost.
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DEVELOPMENT: Escaping the Poverty Trap
By Mercedes Sayagues
PRETORIA - What do they have in common - the landless widow with a deaf son in Bangladesh, the 12-year-old miner in Kyrgyzstan, the Ugandan farming couple with 12 children and the South African domestic worker who loses her home when her husband dies and her job when she breaks a leg? They, and their children, are trapped in chronic poverty, even as their countries show economic growth.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Digging for Hope in Land Reform
By Stephanie Nieuwoudt
CAPE TOWN - Through the difficulties facing the land reform process in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Namibia, glimmers of hope are emerging. The challenge now is to seek lessons which enable newly settled farmers to create a livelihood.
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POPULATION-KENYA: Women's Choices Change Cities
By Rose N. Oronje
NAIROBI - This year the world reaches an invisible but momentous milestone: for the first time in history, more than half its population will be living in urban areas. In Kenya, rapid urbanisation is creating deepening poverty among urban residents.
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Q&A: Denying Antiretrovirals To Migrants Hurts Us All -- Interview with Joanna Vearey, Forced Migration Project, Univ. of Witswatersrand
Prisoners of Familiarity
By Ernest Darkoh
I have always loved the title of Dugmore Boetie's book, 'Familiarity of the Kingdom of the Lost'. Each decade of my global health career has revealed the increasing poignancy of these words. Despite the large number of public health initiatives, the last four decades have seen Africa become the top ranking abode of some of the world's nastiest pathogens and diseases. So why are these inherently addressable problems so resistant to solutions?
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Is Information the Solution?
By Richard Humphries
The World Bank's new chief economist for Africa recently penned an entry on his new blog with the title: Is information the solution? His comments drew on pioneering research in Uganda by World Bank staffers in the 1990s on the role that information played in ensuring better development outcomes.
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Telling the Story of a Changing Climate
By Leonie Joubert
How do you tell a story as complex as climate change: where the cause is centuries' worth of pollution, trickling steadily into an ocean of air as vast as the sky above our heads; where the effluent is largely invisible; where the culprits straddle generations; where the victims come decades later? Cape Town hosted scientists and journalists at a conference last month, which was geared towards honing the craft of storytelling in the realm of a shifting climate. Science journalist Leonie Joubert jotted down some of her observations.
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Who and what were the xenophobic attacks in South Africa about?
By Temba Sipho B. Masilela
In the aftermath of the xenophobic attacks ambiguity about nationality has acquired dangers that cannot be ignored. However, the transfixing events and horrifying images of murder in the name of being a real and proven South African national are about more than just language and nationality identity. They are also about shortcomings in policy narratives and the ineffectiveness of the links between policy and community action.
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African Civil Society Must Provide Stronger Leadership
Analysis by Dr Berhe Costantinos
Today, Africa is in the grip of an unprecedented crisis, heightened by the inability of home grown African organisations to readily engage in the search for solutions to the continent's problems. Nonetheless, Africa still struggles to be at the forefront of the global development agenda.
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Research Is About Changing Lives
Analysis by David Dickinson
I live in a country where it has become normal to bury men and women in their thirties. At least it is so at township funerals.
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