TERRAVIVA AFRICA

10/15/2009

Q&A

Africans Won’t Just Be on Receiving End of Arts and Culture

Christi van der Westhuizen interviews MIKE VAN GRAAN, playwright and activist

Mike van Graan: Without markets, the creative industries can't boost development. Global initiatives have in recent years stressed the contribution that arts and culture can make to development. This has led African and European artists, bureaucrats and policy makers to increasingly confront the unequal relations in North-South cultural and artistic exchanges.

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AFRICA

"Grasp the Benefits of Trade with BRIC Emerging Markets"

By Jedi Ramalapa

While economists at a prominent South African bank are excited about burgeoning investment by Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) in Africa, they are vague on the question of the extent to which it will benefit the majority of Africans. Ensuring this, they believe, is the responsibility of African states themselves.

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AFRICA

Uneven Progress on Development Goals

Evelyn Kiapi interviews SYLVIA MWICHULI, deputy director of the U.N. Millennium Campaign Africa

Girls to the front: but girls' primary school enrolment still lags behind that of boys. Credit: Manoocher Deghati/IPS The Millennium Goals cannot be achieved at the United Nations. The U.N. can create a platform for governments to make commitments but cannot force compliance by member states.

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10/14/2009

DR-CONGO

Rights Groups Urge U.N. to Rein in Army

By Matthew Berger

U.N.-supported military operations in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have had an "unacceptable" cost for the civilian population, said a coalition of rights groups Tuesday.

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Q&A

Small Sugar Farmers Not so Sweet on End of Sugar Protocol

Nasseem Ackbarally interviews SALIL ROY, sugar farmer and leader of the Planters’ Reforms Associatio

Salil Roy: The government has a moral obligation towards small scale farmers. Credit: Nasseem Ackbarally/IPS The Sugar Protocol enabling developing world sugar farmers to produce for the European market over the past 34 years ended on Sep 30. Among these, the small island state of Mauritius built two major industries -- tourism and textile and clothing – on the back of its sugar sales.

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AFRICA

Government on Collision Course with Civil Society

By Kelvin Kachingwe

The acquittal of former President Frederick Chiluba on charges of theft after a seven-year long landmark case, and the refusal by the Zambian government to appeal, has put government and civil society on a collision course.

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10/13/2009

AFRICA

Climate Change Worsening Farming’s Trade-Related Woes

By Julio Godoy

Numerous research institutes and international organisations agree that climate change will in the short and medium term worsen Africa's agriculture and food production capabilities, unless greenhouse gases emissions (GHE) are substantially reduced and adequate trade and investment policies put in place.

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UGANDA

The Media is Not Free

By Evelyn Matsamura Kiapi

Every Saturday afternoon at a public house in the capital city, Lynne Anite, a journalism student at Makerere University, would join senior government officials, academics, and even business people to debate about current affairs.

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10/12/2009

Q&A

The Desire To Be An Outsider

Moses Magadza interviews MEMORY CHIRERE about the legacy of writer Dambudzo Marechera

Dambudzo Marechera: 'Insist upon your right to go off on a tangent. Your right to put the spanner in the works.' Credit: Ernst Schade "The old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh... And the same thing is happening to my generation." - Dambudzo Marechera, House of Hunger

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UGANDA

Wanted: New Messengers on Women's Rights

By Evelyn Kiapi

Activists have spent decades trying to get new laws passed to secure the rights of Ugandan women in the private sphere. As a fresh set of gender-related laws comes before parliament, activists are this time seeking to enlist male legislators as partners in advocating their passage.

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U.N. Weighs Sanctions Against Perpetrators of DRC Mass Rapes

LATIN AMERICA: Border Mining Projects Before Ethics Tribunal

Slammed For Its Roma Expulsions, France Shifts Rhetoric

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ENVIRONMENT-PHILIPPINES: Mining Project Digs Up Locals' Ire

HEALTH: H1N1 Pandemic Is Over, But Vigilance Needed - WHO

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IPS - Inter Press Service Africa