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  • ACP/EU cooperation needs deep reflection - expert 25 Nov 2009 20:15 GMT
    ... in Luanda, said that the cooperation between African, Caribbean and Pacific states and the European Union ... Joint Parliamentary Assembly of ACP-EU, that the Southern African country is hosting as from Wednesday with ... the support given to a country like Angola that is developing itself, that is why ...

  • Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism? 25 Nov 2009 18:17 GMT
    ... produce rice and other staple crops in African nations like Mali, Senegal, Sudan and Ethiopia. “They laid ... a recent study by the Food and Agriculture Organization, one of the earth's last large ... to Ethiopia, and southward to Congo and Angola. Foreign investors — some of them representing ...

  • Will Africa's farmland become a 'resource curse'? 25 Nov 2009 17:57 GMT
    ... to buy up or lease farmland in Africa. One thing that strikes me is the disconnect in ... hear relatively little about the continent's vast agricultural assets—which wealthy investors are now busily snapping ... to Ethiopia, and southward to Congo and Angola. “The World Bank and the FAO have ...

  • DDT Benefits Outweigh Risks - Ntebela 25 Nov 2009 17:30 GMT
    ... reintroduction of Dichlo Diphenyl Trichloroethane (DDT) in Botswana to fight malaria. The Botswana government reintroduced ... die yearly of malaria, most of them African children under the age of five. It ... none was sprayed. Another study showed that Swaziland and Madagascar had malaria epidemics killing more ...

  • Residents Worry Over Churches By the River 25 Nov 2009 17:30 GMT
    ... the churches are illegal organisations run by Zimbabweans. An overseer of African churches in Borolong area, Bishop Ogotseng Mabaiwa ... pastors have valid papers to be in Botswana. ...

  • AfriForum goes to court over SA-Zim deal 25 Nov 2009 15:53 GMT
    ... investment promotion and protection agreement between South Africa and Zimbabwe is unconstitutional and will be challenged in ... into account historical ownership of land or agricultural investment up to the date of its ...

  • Banda opens Zambia planting season at IFC-supported farm 25 Nov 2009 15:34 GMT
    ... supported by the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC’s) Zambia Emergent Farmer Finance and Support Programme, which would ... potential to grow and diversify their enterprises. Agriculture contributes almost a quarter of Africa’s gross domestic product and employs about 70% ...

  • Fourteen Faith Groups to U.S. Trade Representative: Support Developing Country Demands to Safeguard 25 Nov 2009 15:33 GMT
    ... Indonesia, the G-33 represents 46 countries including Botswana, Cote d'Ivoire, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, ... Guatemala, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Korea, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, the Philippines, Senegal, Sri ... Other developing country blocks such as the Africa Group, the Least Developed Countries Group (LDC) ...

  • Fourteen Faith Groups to U.S. Trade Representative: Support Developing Country Demands to Safeguard Food Staples at WTO Ministerial 25 Nov 2009 15:31 GMT
    ... Indonesia, the G-33 represents 46 countries including Botswana, Cote d'Ivoire, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, ... Guatemala, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Korea, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, the Philippines, Senegal, Sri ... Other developing country blocks such as the Africa Group, the Least Developed Countries Group (LDC) ...

  • Women in Malawi: Holding up half the sky 25 Nov 2009 15:30 GMT
    ... Women in Malawi: Holding up half the sky Reuters and ... embark on the road to will hit Africa “first and worst”. What we don't hear enough ... it becomes increasingly difficult to survive on agriculture, many women are forced to . “Some ...

  • Sick-bags at the ready: The New York Times gushes over the Obamas' state dinner 25 Nov 2009 15:12 GMT
    ... 2:31 pm A meal drawing on an African-American heritage … That would be grits with ... where there are a lot of hog farms, and not much room set aside for cattle ...

  • COSATU CEC on health, migration and the economy 25 Nov 2009 14:54 GMT
    ... green. There are an estimated 3 million Zimbabweans who are equal victims of mismanagement of ... come under a mistaken belief that South Africa was a land of milk and honey. The CEC has ... The solution has to include developing all Southern African economies. The developmental policies for strong ...

  • Julius Buchinsky sells his glasses 25 Nov 2009 14:30 GMT
    ... I bought most famous face in South Africa's auctioneering game." Exclusive interview Leno de Villiers ... positioned the company to be competitive throughout Southern Africa." Are you where you want to be ... as the as well as rare memorabilia, farms, private jets, boats, art and some sought ...

  • Are children's futures going up in smoke? 25 Nov 2009 14:23 GMT
    ... 160,000 child deaths a year in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia directly resulting from climate ... tornados will destroy miles upon miles of agriculture, citys and the lives of millions of ... be affected. I've recently come back from Zambia and have seen and experienced first hand the ...

  • Afriforum to court over SA-Zim deal 25 Nov 2009 14:20 GMT
    ... investment promotion and protection agreement between South Africa and Zimbabwe is unconstitutional and will be challenged in ... into account historical ownership of land or agricultural investment up to the date of its ...

  • Nampak head delivers warning as profits slump 25 Nov 2009 13:36 GMT
    ... declaration as the largest packaging manufacturer in Africa revealed that its 2009 profits tumbled to R202m from ... Africa, volumes grew especially in Nigeria and Zambia, although its Kenyan operations posted a loss. ... decreased. A new beverage can plant in Angola is due to come on line late ...

  • Miners boosted by metals and updates 25 Nov 2009 13:31 GMT
    ... licence to explore a molybdenum deposit. South African coal miner Strategic Natural Resources said its ... Diamonds which mines for the gemstones in Lesotho and South Africa, is lower after it posted ... sales have been underperforming the overall market. Forestry & Paper 3,578.25 +2.31% Travel & Leisure ...

  • Ukrainian killed in pirate attack on German ship off Benin - Summary 25 Nov 2009 13:13 GMT
    ... UN Security Council Wedn... Windhoek - As Namibians head to the polls this weekend, 20 ... and parliamentary elections hav... Johannesburg - South Africa, Africa's biggest economy, is back on the growth ... ... Hong Kong - Two bodyguards protecting Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe's student daughter in Hong ...

  • Southern Sudanese president narrowly avoids plane crash death 25 Nov 2009 12:30 GMT
    ... UN Security Council Wedn... Windhoek - As Namibians head to the polls this weekend, 20 ... and parliamentary elections hav... Johannesburg - South Africa, Africa's biggest economy, is back on the growth ... ... Hong Kong - Two bodyguards protecting Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe's student daughter in Hong ...

  • In defence of Jeremy Cronin 25 Nov 2009 12:12 GMT
    ... nationalization, "is not a panacea for South Africa's developmental challenges". However, the Conceptual Document goes ... houses to privately extract and trade minerals. Botswana and Namibia present useful archetypes on how South Africa ...

  • About Palestine: an Open letter to Barack Obama 25 Nov 2009 11:34 GMT
    ... in a Palestinian society heavily relying on agriculture for its own subsistence, such a confiscation ... citizens of the black majority in South Africa, or of Jewish minorities in pre-19th century ... long and difficult road. In Algeria and Zimbabwe however, things didn’t end-up that way, with ...

  • De Doorns - refugees still on field 25 Nov 2009 11:32 GMT
    ... said. More than 3 000 people, mostly Zimbabweans, evacuated shacks in De Doorns last week ... they were robbing them of jobs on farms in the area. The South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) in a statement ...

  • SA, Zimbabwean states to sign bilateral investment pact 25 Nov 2009 11:10 GMT
    ... SA, Zimbabwean states to sign bilateral investment pact The South African government and its Zimbabwean counterpart would on Friday ... other farmers had since sought approached the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal to intervene. ...

  • The last lions in Kenya 25 Nov 2009 10:13 GMT
    ... Kenya, as well as the rest of Africa, that I think they will disappear [from ... is still widely available in Tanzania, Uganda, Botswana and elsewhere, and lions and other animals are ... EcoWorldly recently. Lion Guardians works with local farmers and conservation biologists to foster a mutually ...

  • 100 children die daily in Zim 25 Nov 2009 08:51 GMT
    ... > > The health of Zimbabwe's children and women, particularly in the poorer ... country suffered the worst cholera epidemic in Africa in 15 years and famine stalked millions. ... by his supporters of thousands of commercial farms, almost completely unravelled the dramatic health reforms ...


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