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DEVELOPMENT-ZAMBIA: Sharing the Copper Windfall By Danstan Kaunda LUSAKA - Australian mining giant Equinox Minerals is developing the Lumwana Copper Mine (LCM) to take advantage of strong prices for copper on the international market. When it opens later this year, the mine will be the largest in Africa, but critics say Zambia's share of the profits of minerals is smaller than it should be. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT-UGANDA: Looming Problems With Kampala's Water By Joshua Kyalimpa KAMPALA - The water supply for two million residents of the Ugandan capital Kampala is threatened by a combination of ill-planned urbanisation and changing rainfall patterns. MORE >>
ENVIRONMENT-CAMEROON: Operation Green Sahel Resumes By Tamfu Hanson GAROUA - "I have come to plant trees -- that is why I have left my jacket and tie in Yaoundé" declared Cameroon's Minister of Forest and Wildlife, Elvis Ngolle Ngolle, as he launched the tree planting at a small village near the town of Kousseri, in the north of the country. In four minutes, the minister and his staff planted a hundred trees as a bulwark against rapidly encroaching desert. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT-AFRICA: Retailer Creates Jobs With Green Practices By Johan Eybers JOHANNESBURG - Seven years ago, 54 subsistence farmers in the Umbumbulu district on the KwaZulu-Natal coast of South Africa were struggling to feed their families. They could barely pay their children’s school fees. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT-KENYA: People, Not Electricity, Make Growth Possible By Najum Mushtaq NAIROBI - Conventional wisdom holds that a shortage of affordable and reliable energy is a key factor in perpetuating low levels of development in countries like Kenya. But the country's chief energy regulator argues that Kenya has all the power it needs, and growth in generation need not precede growth in demand. MORE >>
TRADE-WEST AFRICA: Overfishing Linked to Food Crisis, Migration By Hilaire Avril PARIS - According to a recent report by the nongovernmental organisation ActionAid, West African seas are being devastated by legal and illegal overfishing, while local fishing industries decline. Moreover, the economic partnership agreements in their currently proposed form only exacerbate this problem. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT-TOGO: High Cost of Living Exacerbated By Floods By Noël Kokou Tadégnon LOME - Recent flooding in Togo caused the collapse of over 10 bridges connecting the capital of Lomé to the north of the country. The consequences have been increased transportation costs and a steady climb in the price of consumer products. MORE >>
TRADE: ''Doha Collapse Won't Mean Suffering for The Poor'' Analysis by Aileen Kwa GENEVA - At the heart of the collapse of the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Round last week are the different opinions on liberalisation and its relation to development. Developed countries promote the idea that liberalisation will bring about development and thus that the failure of the Round constitutes a blow for the poor. MORE >>
ENVIRONMENT-BURKINA FASO: Winning People Over to Fight Deforestation By Brahima Ouédraogo OUAGADOUGOU - In the West African nation of Burkina Faso, millions of trees are planted every year to reverse desertification. However the growing socio-economic needs of local populations pose a constant threat to these efforts. MORE >>
Q&A: 'We Need Policies That Address Climate Change' By Interview with Washington Zhakata, national coordinator of Zimbabwe's Climate Change Awareness Programme HARARE - Last year, Zimbabwe's second largest city of Bulawayo faced a crippling water crisis, after three of its five supply dams went dry. Some high density suburbs went for over three months without water. MORE >>
AFRICA: Link Between Crop Failure and Climate Change Often Missed By Miriam Mannak CAPE TOWN - Climate change has a profound effect on food security in Africa, as increasing temperatures and shifting rain patterns reduce access to food across the continent. MORE >>
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