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Funding Begins Flowing for African Agriculture
By Claire Ngozo
WINDHOEK - The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) has received a major boost as several countries have begun drawing on funds from a $22 billion pledge made by the G8.
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SOUTH AFRICA
"Xenophobia Simmering Just Below Boiling Point"
By Kim Cloete
CAPE TOWN - "Xenophobia is part of life. We do not live easy here. We only survive," says Somali shopkeeper, Abdinasir Shaikh Aden, looking tense.
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Fisheries Can Play Key Role in Africa
Davison Makanga interviews MARI-LISE DU PREEZ, forests, fisheries and governance expert
CAPE TOWN - Fisheries contribute at least $10 billion dollars to African economies every year. In countries such as Angola, Egypt and Namibia, fisheries are vital economic drivers.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA
Growing Seed Security
By Mantoe Phakathi
WINDHOEK - Farmer Obed Dlamini, like many of his colleagues from Swaziland, finds it difficult to find quality maize seeds each planting season. Not only are the seeds expensive but they are often not available.
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Portugal's Forests Losing Ability to Capture Carbon
By Mario de Queiroz
GERÊS, Portugal - Environmentalists are alarmed: fires have destroyed close to 100,000 hectares of forest in Portugal this summer, releasing one million tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Worst of all, the forests are losing their ability to absorb carbon.
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Billion Dollar Audit Missed by Pentagon Watchdog
By Pratap Chatterjee*
WASHINGTON - Military auditors failed to complete an audit of the business systems of an Ohio- based company - Mission Essential Personnel - even though it had billed for one billion dollars worth of work largely in Afghanistan over the last four years.
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DEVELOPMENT
South-east Asian Highway Hits Roadblock in Burma
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - With its thick forest cover and abundant wildlife, the Dawna mountain range in south-eastern Burma is coming in the way of a flagship highway project being pushed by one of Asia’s premier financiers of roads.
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MINING-CHILE
Make Good on Concern for Worker Safety, Say Unions
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - While efforts get underway to try to rescue the 33 miners who are trapped 700 metres underground in a mine in northern Chile, trade unions are calling on the country's political leaders to tackle the underlying problems of worker safety.
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SOUTH AMERICA
Argentine Beef Overtaken by Mercosur Partners
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - South America's Mercosur trade bloc is becoming established as the top world producer of beef, with 40 percent of the international market. But while in Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay production and exports are growing, Argentina, the home of the legendary "asado" barbecue, is falling behind.
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EAST AFRICA
Protecting Lake Victoria's Top Predator
By Arnaud Bébien
MWANZA, Tanzania - Coordinated conservation measures to arrest the steep decline of stocks of Nile perch in Lake Victoria are showing encouraging results - for fish, if not for fishing communities around the lake.
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US
New Banking Overhaul More Like An Under-Haul
By Matthew Cardinale
ATLANTA - On July 21, 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law the most sweeping financial industry regulatory reform since the Great Depression of the 1930s. But, experts point out that the bill does not address some of the real problems behind the structural instabilities of the U.S. economic system.
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HAITI
Scraping by on Mud Cookies
By Wadner Pierre
PORT-AU-PRINCE - At six in the morning in Cite Soleil, the poorest zone of Haiti's capital city, the sun is already up. It's the start of another workday for Lurene Jeanti, making cookies from mud, butter and salt. She's been mixing the ingredients on the side of the road to sell to her neighbours for the past eight years.
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AFRICA
Outrage Over Claim that Anti-GM Campaign "Causes Hunger"
By Miriam Mannak
CAPE TOWN - Civil society organisations have reacted with outrage to claims that the international campaign against genetically modified (GM) crops is partly responsible for food shortages and food insecurity in Africa.
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SOUTH AFRICA
Public Health Strained by Nurses' Strike
By Chris Stein
JOHANNESBURG - Striking health workers have continued their work stoppage despite accusations that it endangers patients' lives. They are part of a nationwide strike by public sector workers that has some observers concerned that rising wage demands could harm South Africa's economy.
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HEALTH-UGANDA
Problems with Anti-Counterfeit Bill Persist
By Evelyn Matsamura Kiapi
KAMPALA - Health rights activists still insist that, despite some improvements to Uganda’s controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Bill, it will affect the availability of generic medicine if enacted in present form.
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