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11/12/2009
SWAZILAND
Help Sex Workers - Senator
By Mantoe Phakathi
Senator Thuli Msane spoke out against arresting sex workers. Credit:Mantoe Phakathi/IPS It is one of the world's oldest professions, dating so far back that it is even mentioned in the Bible. But in the deeply cultural and religious country of Swaziland, Senator Thuli Msane stirred a hornet's nest when she publicly challenged a new strict bill opposing prostitution.
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AGRICULTURE-ZIMBABWE
New Methods to Maximise Yields
By Vusumuzi Sifile
Guruve village head Mukambi Chimanikire: 'When the programme started, the village was in immense hunger.' Credit: Vusumuzi Sifile/IPS Last season, for the first time in her more than 20 years as a farmer, Elizabeth Runema harvested her maize crop at the beginning of February.
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CLIMATE CHANGE
Africa Told 'Stop Playing the Victim'
By Kristin Palitza
Critics of carbon trading, a strategy meant to combat global warming, say the buying and selling of carbon credits is being exploited.
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CLIMATE CHANGE
Africa In the Global Carbon Trade
By Kristin Palitza
Carbon trading, as promoted by the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), has become a key global strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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11/11/2009
RIGHTS-US
Rendition Redux?
By William Fisher
On the heels of a federal appeals court ruling that only the U.S. Congress and the executive branch of government - not the courts - can interfere with government-sponsored "extraordinary rendition", a U.S. citizen from New Jersey is asking another court to tell the government it wasn't okay to secretly imprison and abuse him in three different African countries over a period of four months.
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AFRICA
Taking the Lead on Water
By Zenzele Ndebele and Nasseem Ackbarally
Building a catchment pond in Uganda: Africa Water Week is a forum to discuss water issues across the continent. Credit: Glenna Thomas/IRIN Water is a resource that binds people together, for better or worse.
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POLITICS-MOZAMBIQUE
Victory for Frelimo Amid Claims of Election Fraud
By Zenaida Machado
The incumbent, President Armando Guebuza, has won the Mozambican 2009 elections in a landslide, obtaining three quarters of the votes, according to official results.
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UGANDA
Helping Hand For Homophobia From U.S. Christians
By Christi van der Westhuizen
The Anti-Homosexuality Bill under consideration in Uganda was sparked by a conference in Kampala earlier this year at which fundamentalist Christians from the U.S. identified homosexuality as a threat to "family values".
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SIERRA LEONE
Claims Presidency Interferes with Judiciary
By Lansana Fofana
It may be seven years after the country’s civil war, but Sierra Leone is still battling to obtain an independent judiciary.
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Q&A
Inclusive Sex Education Needed in African Schools
Suzanne Hoeksema interviews AKINYI M. OCHOLLA, Chair of Minority Women in Action
Akinyi M. Ocholla Credit:Courtesy of Akinyi M. Ocholla With the exception of South Africa, most African countries criminalise same-sex relationships with imprisonment, while incidents of violence against gay women and men are poorly investigated and rarely taken to court.
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