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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. MORE >>
BOTSWANA HIV-positive Mothers Not Convinced to Exclusively Breastfeed By Alma Balopi GABORONE - "An HIV-positive woman must never be encouraged to breastfeed because regardless of what the doctors or researchers say - it is too dangerous for the baby," says Koziba Kelatlhe an HIV-positive mother who was advised by health workers not to breastfeed her child. MORE >>
AFRICA ‘Welcome to My Taxi – Let’s Do Business with My Cell Phone’ By Chris Stein JOHANNESBURG - In cities across Africa, being an entrepreneur requires no office, business card or investors. All it takes is a cell phone, according to Adele Botha, a researcher at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa. MORE >>
SOUTH AFRICA ‘Tea Bag’ Filter Provides Safe Drinking Water By Chris Stein JOHANNESBURG - Though it may look like a tea bag, straining water through this recently developed filter could provide a cheap, easily replenished source of water for those who need it most. MORE >>
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. MORE >>
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. MORE >>
UGANDA Unfriendly Nurses and Culture Hinder Male Involvement in HIV Prevention By Wambi Michael MBALE, Uganda - Irene Wangolo was advised to undergo an HIV test during her antenatal visit and to return to the clinic with her husband so they could be counselled on preventing HIV transmission to their unborn baby. But her husband refused to accompany her saying it was not his business and Wangolo never returned to the clinic in Bungokho in eastern Uganda. So she missed all the services, including the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT). MORE >>
MALAWI Women Candidates Hard Hit by Election Postponement By Claire Ngozo LILONGWE - News that Malawi’s November local government elections are to be postponed yet again has hit female candidates hard – and mostly in their pockets. And it could mean that the country will have less female candidates to vote for when they finally go to the polls. MORE >>
Mali Nomads Flee Drought By Soumaïla T. Diarra BAMAKO - Nomadic communities in northern Mali's desert regions are facing one of the most serious droughts of the last twenty years. MORE >>
AGRICULTURE-SOUTH AFRICA 'There Is No Dignity' Kristin Palitza interviews labour and gender expert GRISCHELDA HARTMAN CAPE TOWN - South African farm workers – especially female labourers – continue to be exploited, despite the existence of national labour laws and regulations designed to protect them. But in the absence of information and education about their rights, workers have a hard time claiming them. MORE >>
ECONOMY "Sub-Saharan Africa Is Speeding Towards Affluence" By Julio Godoy PARIS - Africa is heading towards a bright economic future, according to a new book co-authored by the former director of the French state agency for economic cooperation and released recently in Paris. MORE >>
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SADC - The official website for the Southern African Development Community
African Economic Research Consortium
Third World Network
African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD)
SARPN is a facility for promoting debate on poverty in Southern Africa
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