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Mozambique: Death Toll Rises to Ten in Protests
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 11:45The death toll from the rioting in Maputo and the neighbouring city of Matola on Wednesday and Thursday has now risen to ten, according to Health Minister Ivo Garrido.
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Mozambique: Maputo Largely Calm, But Riots Spread to Chimoio
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 11:45After two days of rioting over price rises, Maputo was mostly calm on Friday, but a few minor disturbances occurred in some outlying neighbourhoods.
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Mozambique: Portuguese Companies Will Go on Investing, Despite Riots
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 11:45This week's riots in Maputo will not prevent Portuguese businesses from investing in Mozambique, according to Telmo Fernandes, managing partner of Market Access, a consultancy firm based in the northern Portuguese city of Oporto.
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Mozambique: Food Protests Spread to Central City
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 11:45Groups of looters attacked stalls in the main markets of the central Mozambican city of Beira on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning, according to a report in Friday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias".
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Namibia: Political Perspective
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 11:36THERE is a poignant letter in today's edition from a youth asking the country's leadership to look forward rather than back, and instead of berating the youth, to try and empower them, especially against the background of large-scale unemployment in this country. He has a point. And we need to take note of what he is saying and try to find a way to address the problem.
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Uganda: MP Accused of Destroying Votes
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 11:21The Buvuma Member of Parliament, Mr William Nsubuga, was yesterday interrogated for several hours by police for allegedly destroying election materials meant for NRM primaries in Buvuma Island.
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Kenya: Woman Researcher Tackles Aflatoxin Poisoning
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 11:02Despite a bumper harvest of maize just a few months ago, many residents in the eastern part of Kenya are facing hunger and starvation. While granaries in the region may be full, the grain cannot be freely sold, let alone eaten.
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South Africa: Big Weaknesses in Health Depts, Says Govt Report
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 11:01Huge weaknesses in provincial health departments are behind the R7.5-billion debt that has been accumulated, mainly by Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape.
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Somalia: Press Freedom - Do We Really Understand What This Means?
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 11:00There has been much noise and fury recently across a range of news outlets in this country about press freedom. "We want a free press" - you hear the journalists cry, and surely you think to yourself that is an entirely reasonable request of any administration, in any civilised country. But what is meant by the call for a free press? Is this a call to not be required like the rest of the people of Puntland to share the responsibility for establishing a civil and secure society? Is it really a call for journalists to be above the law and have the freedom to publish absolutely anything they want?
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Kenya: Africa Delegates Meet in Nairobi Over Food Security
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 10:57Participants from seven countries meet in Nairobi on Monday and Tuesday to find ways of addressing food security in the region.
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Congo-Kinshasa: Rape Cases Rise to 242, Says NGO
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 10:56Suspected rebels have raped at least 242 women within a few days in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Nord-Kivu province, according to an American medical charity. Rapes and beatings took place at the end of July and the beginning of August.
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Africa: Vaults to Protect Agricultural Biodiversity
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 10:53As rising food prices, growing populations and natural disasters increasingly put pressure on food production, governments and scientists are focusing on preserving the world's agricultural biodiversity through seed and gene banks.
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Ghana: Collectively, We Can Deal With Challenges
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 10:26No nation on earth is without developmental challenges and problems. The advanced countries of this world have once travelled the trajectory our dear nation Ghana is charting and were equally buffeted by all the scourges one could imagine. But what catapulted most of them to greater heights were strong institutions which fulfilled their expected roles designed for them by society.
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Africa: Fisheries Must Deal With Threats, Opportunities
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 10:07The fisheries and aquaculture sectors are central to the survival of millions in Africa, but the resource is under threat, yet the region should exploit market possibilities.
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Namibia: Women Change Pans for Bats and Balls
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 10:07The old-fashioned notion that a woman's place is in the kitchen appears to have been thrown into the dustbin of has-beens.
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Africa: Do African Producers Save Copies of Their Video Work?
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 09:59The recent fire damage to Ultima Studios' in Nigeria (see Broadcast News below) and the 2008 fire in Universal Studios' video vault underline the importance of holding a back-up and making a proper archive of work. Balancing Act's Sylvain Beletre looks at what the practice in Africa has been so far and suggests some easy ways to overcome the problem.
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Kenya: Govt Signs Deal to Allow International Court Base
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 09:08The Government has signed 16 articles of understanding that would see the International Criminal Court (ICC) set its base in Kenya, ease its work, track and follow up on the perpetrators of 2007 post-election violence locally.
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Mozambique: Tense Maputo Counts Cost of Violent Price Riots
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 09:08Mozambique’s government refused yesterday to reverse this week’s price hikes that have hit the poorest, sparking the country’s worst riots in two years.
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Africa: New Maize Could Prepare Farmers for Climate Change
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 08:52New varieties of drought-tolerant maize could deliver a US$1.5 billion gain in food and income in Sub-Saharan Africa as well as helping smallholders cope with the effects of climate change, according to a study carried out in 13 countries in the region.
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Kenya: Bank Launches Online Payment System for Tourism Sector
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 08:49Kenya Commercial Bank has launched an on-line payment solution targeting the tourism sector as e-commerce takes root in the country.
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