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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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HEALTH-SWAZILAND: AIDS Creating a Society in Distress
By James Hall
MANZINI - In a narrow and still winter-brown valley, little more than a crevice between rocky mountains, Gogo Ndlovu looks after her five young orphaned grandchildren.
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ENVIRONMENT-SOUTH AFRICA: Western Cape Farmers Expect the Unexpected
By Stephanie Nieuwoudt
CAPE TOWN - The Western Cape region attracts millions of tourists who come to this part of South Africa to enjoy its famous Table Mountain and beaches, and to experience some of the world's best wines and deciduous fruits. But changes in the region's climate could be threatening these industries.
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Q&A: Denying Antiretrovirals To Migrants Hurts Us All
Interview with Joanna Vearey, Forced Migration Project, Univ. of Witswatersrand
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa has become a destination for people from across the continent and beyond. But in spite of migrants having a legal right to free antiretroviral treatment (ART) for HIV, they are being turned away from government clinics.
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Q&A: Is Democracy Dangerous in Multi-ethnic Societies?
Interview with Frances Stewart, Oxford University Professor of Development Economics
OXFORD - The Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) would seem to have its work cut out for it in a world racked by brutal and enduring conflict. The centre's goal is to explore the links between ethnicity, inequality and conflict in order to identify policies that could lead to more inclusive multi-ethnic societies.
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HEALTH-KENYA: Malaria Rises to Highland Areas
By Najum Mushtaq
NAIROBI - The end of June marks the start of the malaria season in East Africa. After the long rains, conditions in lowland swamps and coastal regions are more conducive for mosquito breeding. But in recent years malaria has also appeared in the highland areas where it was previously unheard of.
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HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Free To Go Where I Like - Life Outside a Psychiatric Hospital
By Kathryn Strachan
JOHANNESBURG - The wind has picked up and blows the sand, swirling in patterns, across the dirt roads and barren yards of Madadeni township. It batters relentlessly against the walls of Joseph Gumede’s* iron shack, rattling the windows, and he has to raise his voice to be heard above the din. But sheltered from the dust storm. Joseph feels that he has at last found his way home.
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HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Children in the Path of the Pandemic
By Kathryn Strachan
JOHANNESBURG - There is barely a path leading down the steep incline and through the dense bush to the Mabuyakhulu homestead. It would be easy to pass by without finding 13 year old Zanele* and her eight year old sister Andiswa who stay there on their own.
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DEVELOPMENT-KENYA: Water Studies - But Where Are the Water Supplies?
By Rosalia Omungo
NAIROBI - The road leading to the informal settlement of Korogocho is narrow and winding. Here, in Nairobi's third largest slum, up to 150,000 people are crammed into an area of just over one square kilometre, their shanties made of cardboard, wood or metal.
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Q&A: Circumcision an "Opportunity To Take Great Strides Forward" Against HIV
Interview with Mark Heywood
JOHANNESBURG - Results from trials in South Africa, Kenya and Uganda in 2006 showed that male circumcision reduced the transmission of HIV from women to men by up to 60 percent. On the basis of these results, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World Health Organisation have recommended that countries encourage men to be circumcised.
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HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Where Have the Piglets Gone?
By Kathryn Strachan
JOHANNESBURG - Each psychiatric patient leaving Tower Hospital in the Eastern Cape Province under a new project to integrate patients into the community is sent home with two piglets. While at the hospital, patients are trained to raise pigs, the hope being that they will use the piglets for breeding to develop a sustainable source of income once discharged.
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In partnership with www.research4development.info, IPS is seeking to answer these questions, enliven the debate about research, and help to ensure that it does indeed change lives.

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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  By Benjamin William Mkapa* - IPS/South Centre
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