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10/22/2009
DEVELOPMENT
'Global Poverty Is Not Acceptable'
By Busani Bafana
European Commission president Jose-Manuel Barroso at the first day of the European Development Days Credit: EC/CE The economic crisis is a fresh reason to meet Millennium Development Goal targets, not an excuse to miss them, said European Commission president Jose-Manuel Barroso, opening the dialogue at the fourth edition of the European Development Days (EDD).
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HEALTH-AFRICA
Fresh Campaign Against Paediatric AIDS
By Nalisha Kalideen
Graça Machel: hold government to account on prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS in mothers and children. Credit: Erik Forster/CEPA Eleven years ago, Raloke Odetoyinbo had been married for two years and a month when she found out she was HIV positive.
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UGANDA
Lifting Silence on Menstruation to Keep Girls in School
By Joshua Kyalimpa
More than half of Ugandan girls who enrol in grade one drop out before sitting for their primary school-leaving examinations.
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CLIMATE CHANGE
Africa Readies United Front for Crucial Copenhagen Talks
By Thalif Deen
As African leaders meet in Ethiopia to discuss the devastating impacts of climate change, the United Nations has released a report warning that the economically-troubled continent will be one of the hardest hit by the ravages of global warming.
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AGRICULTURE-COTE D'IVOIRE
Small-scale Pineapple Growers Want More Support
By Fulgence Zamblé
The cost of inputs has gone up, price paid for pineapple down: Ivorien growers are in a jam. Credit: Wikicommons Karim Diabaté, looks questioningly at his vast 20 hectare pineapple plantation in Bonoua in south-eastern Côte d'Ivoire. "I'm asking myself if if I'll get the money I need for in time for the inputs I need and keep my plants going."
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10/21/2009
WATER-MOZAMBIQUE
Remote Villages Out of Sight, Out of Mind?
By Jessie Boylan
The river at Mtwepe. Credit: Jessie Boylan/IPS "This is where we get our water from," says a villager on the footpath leading out of Mcondece. Branches and other debris float on the surface of the sluggish, murky brown creek.
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KENYA
AIDS Prevention Amongst Drug Users a Challenge
By Susan Anyangu
The United Nation Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) claims that Kenya has more drug users than any other East African country. UNODC estimates there are 100,000 cocaine users, 200,000 using opiates like heroin and four million who smoke cannabis.
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AFRICA
Counting on Media for Good Governance
By Charles Mpaka
Margaret Roka Mauwa, the deputy Minister of Agriculture in Malawi, says she believes in working with the media. Credit:Charles Mpaka/IPS While campaigning in the last election, Margaret Roka Mauwa, Member of the Malawian Parliament, did not promise her voters that when she won she would buy them coffins.
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10/20/2009
ANGOLA
Tit-for-Tat Deportations Leave Thousands At Risk
By Louise Redvers
Angolans at the Mama Rosa transit camp in northern Angola. Credit: Save the Children Angola More than 30,000 Angolans are stranded in transit camps after being abruptly deported from the Democratic Republic of Congo and there are growing fears of a cholera outbreak as the rainy season begins.??
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ZAMBIA
Holding Government Responsible for Spending
By Kelvin Kachingwe
The recent change of the budget cycle to allow government to effectively spend money to develop the country is not good enough unless those in charge of the money are made accountable, say civil society.
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