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12/4/2009
GENDER
Zimbabwe Basket Fund Takes Off
By Stanley Kwenda
The jury is out on whether women at the grassroots are best served by Zimbabwe's Gender Support Programme. Credit: Ephraim Nsingo/IPS A basket fund aimed at increasing the economic participation of women in Zimbabwe, has been relaunched after a start which faltered due to the delayed appointment of the new government earlier this year.
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SOUTH AFRICA-RIGHTS
Push To Protect Sex Workers During World Cup
By Davison Makanga
As the 2010 Soccer World Cup approaches, calls for the decriminalisation of sex work in South Africa have been renewed.
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12/3/2009
HEALTH
Raising the Recommended CD4 Count for ART
By Nastasya Tay
A supporter at the World Aids Day celebration held in Pretoria. Credit:Nastasya Tay Newborn babies in South Africa will now be treated for HIV, regardless of their CD4 count. President Jacob Zuma announced several new measures which focus on expanding the country’s anti-retroviral (ARV) programme, especially in terms of mother-to-child-transmission, and for those with both TB and HIV.
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CLIMATE CHANGE
"We Are a Harbinger of What Is to Come"
By Stephen Leahy
A prolonged drought in the Maasai lands of Kenya is killing the herds and devastating their pastoralist way of life. Credit:William Warby/creative commons license A small group of indigenous people have travelled here to the historic Copenhagen climate talks to show negotiators dramatic documentary videos they made about the immediate impacts of climate change on their homelands and way of life.
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TRADE
"Development More Important than Quick Conclusion of Doha"
By Isolda Agazzi
Governments expressed the will at the seventh ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to finish the Doha Round of trade negotiations as soon as possible. But the Africa Group still deems development to be a more important priority than a speedy conclusion.
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Q&A
Africa - High On Political Empowerment, Low On Education
Miren Gutierrez interviews SAADIA ZAHIDI, co-author of Global Gender Gap report
Saadia Zahidi: The GGG index "looks at women as resources" Credit:World Economic Forum "It is clear that there are huge discrepancies within Sub-Saharan Africa, but overall the region is doing extremely well in terms of political empowerment," says Saadia Zahidi, head of the Women Leaders and Gender Parity Programme at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in a telephone interview from Geneva.
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12/2/2009
AFRICA
Campaign to Unite Against Malaria Kicks Off
By Saaleha Bamjee-Mayet
Charles Ssali (r) and Joseph-Antoine Bell are two footballers supporting a campaign using sport to help fight malaria. Credit: Saaleha Bamjee-Mayet Growing up in Cameroon, Joseph-Antoine Bell and his friends used to think that by playing football they could get rid of malaria.
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SENEGAL
Farmers Anxious About Aid
By Koffigan E Adigbli
As part of a project to support community initiatives and fight poverty in South Senegal, the Sédhiou Local Development Fund received a donation of agricultural equipment worth more than half a million dollars in a bid to reverse the region's dramatic drop in agricultural production in recent years.
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WESTERN SAHARA
Activist Badly Weakened by Hunger Strike
By Tito Drago
The firm stance taken by Western Sahara independence activist Aminatou Haidar, in her third week of a hunger strike in an airport in Spain's Canary Islands, contrasts with the weak position of the Spanish government vis-à-vis the Moroccan government, which it has failed to pressure to allow the activist to return to her homeland.
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HEALTH-ZIMBABWE
Lots of Drugs, No Takers
By Vusumuzi Sifile
Martha* knows that her two young sisters and her need medicine. She also knows where to get it – a clinic a few yards away from her home in Glen Norah, a high-density suburb in the Zimbabwean capital.
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