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6/20/2008
DEVELOPMENT
Civil Society Warns Food Crisis Can Eat Into MDG Gains
By Joyce Mulama
Progress that has already been achieved towards Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) may be reversed due to the current global food crisis, it is emerging at the eighth CIVICUS World Assembly.
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RIGHTS
Let May 11 Be A Turning Point For A More Tolerant, Safe, and Prosperous South Africa
Analysis by Loren Landau*
June 20 is World Refugee Day. Early this week, the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA) launched a report documenting just how far South Africa has to go in protecting the rights of foreigners in our midst.
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RIGHTS-SOUTH AFRICA
"There Has Been Xenophobia for a Long Time in This Country"
An interview with three youth in South Africa
Like Sthabiso Khumalo (20), many South African youth say the government does not deliver on tis promises. Credit:Rogan Ward/IPS Young adults in South Africa increasingly feel government has let them down. They lament lack of access to employment opportunities, poverty and many have pretty much lost hope that their situation will improve within the next decade.
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6/19/2008
ECONOMY-ANGOLA
Slowdown Will Hurt Trade Partners
By Mario de Queiroz
Slower economic growth in Angola will have a negative effect on exports from the southwest African nation’s main trading partners, especially Portugal and Brazil.
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CHAD
European Force Sticks to Mandate Under Early Pressure
By David Axe
The European Union’s first major overseas military deployment -- to the impoverished central African nation of Chad -- is caught in a war of words between the country’s president and tenacious rebel groups operating on Chad’s arid border with Sudan.
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POLITICS-ZIMBABWE
"Getting People Participating Is a Process, Not an Event"
By Ephraim Nsingo
Amidst the turmoil surrounding the Jun. 27 presidential run-off in Zimbabwe, it is doubtless something of a challenge to muster enthusiasm for plans relating to the country's next general elections. Gender activists intent on having more women voted into office in 2013 are undaunted, however.
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POLITICS-ZIMBABWE
"Getting People Participating Is a Process, Not an Event"
By Ephraim Nsingo
Amidst the turmoil surrounding the Jun. 27 presidential run-off in Zimbabwe, it is doubtless something of a challenge to muster enthusiasm for plans relating to the country's next general elections. Gender activists intent on having more women voted into office in 2013 are undaunted, however.
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BRAZIL
African Rhythms Open Prospects for High-Risk Youngsters
By Fabiana Frayssinet
"Axé" is a word that means "positive energy or life force" in the Yoruba language of West Africa, an important concept in the Afro-Brazilian "candomblé" religion. For hundreds of children and young people involved in the Axé Project, it is indeed a force for life.
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TRADE-GHANA
Non-Traditional Exports Are Booming
By Francis Kokutse
Impressive growth in exports from Ghana to the rest of the world has been witnessed over the past few years as more and more Ghanaians explore production in non-traditional sectors.
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6/18/2008
HEALTH
AIDS Activists Urge Major Funding Push for G-8
By Jim Lobe
AIDS and global health activists are calling on the U.S. Senate leadership to urgently approve a record five-year, 50-billion-dollar bill to fight AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis primarily in Africa so that President George W. Bush can take it with him when he meets with other western leaders at next month's Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Japan.
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