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April 30
Southern Africa: SADC Looks to Stronger Partnerships
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
President Hifikepunye Pohamba yesterday asked the southern African
region's international cooperating partners to lend the region a hand
for it to end hunger ...
Southern Africa: Pohamba Says SADC Ready to Face Challenges After ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... Hifikepunye Pohamba said this week that the restructuring of
the Southern African Development ... SADC will be for the
betterment of the region, Africa and the ...
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April 29
Southern Africa: Water-Management Plan Aims to Cut Poverty in ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... USAID) signed a grant agreement April 27 to improve the management
of selected shared river basins and protect biodiversity in the Southern
Africa region. ...
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Southern Africa: SADC's Global Partners
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... The European Union (EU) is SADC's biggest ICP and, by far,
Southern AfricaAfrica's#39;s biggest trading partner as well. The
EU and SADC share ...
Southern Africa: How Will Russia's G8 Presidency Affect Africa?
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... Era's Max Hamata approached the Russian Ambassador, Nikolay
Gribkov on the essence of Russia's G-8 Presidency to Africa
and the Southern African Development ...
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April 28
Southern Africa: SADC Can Become Breadbasket, Says Pohamba
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
THE Southern African Development Community (SADC) could take care
of its own food needs if it planned properly and did not have to "perpetually
hold out a ...
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EU gives millions to southern Africa
iAfrica.com - Cape Town,South Africa
The European Commission has donated â¬18-million ($22.5-million) to southern
African countries to modernise their customs systems and improve border
posts ...
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Companies hit at South Africa immigration law
Financial Times Deutschland - Germany
... The British Chamber of Business in Southern Africa
said immigration problems "are having a detrimental impact on the
short-term effective running of local and ...
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April 27
Southern Africa: SADC Falling Behind MDG Targets
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... that of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
and is equivalent to more than half the aggregate of the whole of Sub-Saharan
Africa, there are ...
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Southern Africa: Electricity Companies Must Solve Energy Deficit
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The top priority of the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP), the
grouping of electricity companies of the SADC (Southern African
Development Community) region ...
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April 26
Southern Africa: SADC Seeks an End to Zimbabwe's Economic Problems
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... Meetings here, Gaolathe said members of the Southern
African Development ... Economy, Finance, and Planning, Abdoulaye
Diop, hailed AfricaAfrica's#39;s economic performance ...
Southern Africa: Tourism in SADC - Retosa
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... According to the Regional Tourism Organi-sation of Southern
Africa (RETOSA), the industry has "contributed US$6.7 billion
to the region's economy in 2004 and ...
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Southern Africa: Bushmen Survive Millennia - But Perhaps Not ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... Bushmen are also found elsewhere in Southern Africa
(Botswana, South Africa, Angola), and are considered the region's
earliest inhabitants: their presence here ...
April 25
Southern Africa: 'Exploit Digital Technology'
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
SOUTHERN African countries should effectively exploit digital technology
to come up with ... said the development of the software has proven
that Africa was not ...
Southern Africa: Comesa, SADC to Formulate Fertilizer Production ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
THE Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa)
and the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) will soon
bring into force a regional ...
Southern Africa: The 'One Size' Trade Pact That Doesn't Fit At All
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... what some describe as a halt in free-trade talks between Southern
African Customs ... The US team, led by Assistant US Trade Representative
for Africa Florie Liser ...
April 24
Southern Africa: US Isolates Zimbabwe
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Zimbabwe was not invited to a four-day 'Africa Endeavour'
workshop held in Gaborone last week on the cooperation of military forces
because of 'its poor ...
Southern Africa: SADC Deputies Discuss Media And Democracy
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
An Angolan parliamentary delegation travelled this morning to Mbabane,
Swaziland, to participate on April 26-28 at the Southern African
Development Community ...
Southern Africa: Historical Gathering for Country's Queens
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
For the first time ever in South AfricaAfrica's#39;s history, queens of
all amakhosi in the country and in Southern Africa will
gather in Durban this week to define and ...
April 23
Southern Africa: US-Southern African Customs Union Agree to Deepen ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... made that commitment while meeting with senior officials from
the member countries of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU)
in Pretoria, South Africa. ...
Southern Africa: Sacu And USA Bog Down On Trade
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU) and the United States
this week agreed on establishing a framework that will enable them to
engage in trade ...
April 22
Southern Africa: To Cull Elephants Or Not?
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The Star's focus, in an article, sub-titled KRUGER FACES THE ISSUES,
by Peter Borchert, founder and publisher of Africa Geographic,
was about the need of the ...
April 21
SOUTHERN AFRICA: IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 279 for 15-21 April 2006
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
Results of the polls to select the final round of presidential candidates,
held this week, have been delayed after they were contested by a favourite,
Caabi ...
Southern Africa: SADC-EU Trade Negotiations: the Overlapping ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... About six countries - who are members of both SADC and the Common
Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) - have broken
ranks with SADC for purposes of ...
Southern Africa: Unions adopt delaration on Economic Partnerships ...
Union Network International - Nyon,Switzerland
- Recognising the dire need to redress poverty, inequality and unemployment
as a result of underdevelopment arising from colonisation, unfair and
undemocratic ...
Southern Africa: Two Presidents Eye Huge Projects
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... to exploit these coal reserves," said President Mogae,
adding that although the demand for coal globally has subsided the demand
is high in Southern Africa. ...
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Concern over deadline for tariff cuts
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... He said the cuts were "critical" in enabling countries
not only in Southern Africa, but the entire developing world
to compete on an equal footing in the ...
Southern Africa: US, SACU Trade Talks Proves Far-Fetched
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... trade pact with the five-member Southern African Customs
Union (SACU) was still far off, but he hoped to agree on a road map with
southern Africa on reaching a ...
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Southern Africa: Fudging the UNGASS Report Card
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... get underway in preparation for the UN General Assembly's
Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS), civil society organisations in Southern
Africa are struggling ...
April 20
SOUTHERN AFRICA : EU-SADC in joint investment promotion project
African News Dimension - Johannesburg,South Africa
By Andnetwork .com. THE European Union-Sadc Investment Promotion Programme
(ESIPP) is identifying mining projects throughout the ...
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Southern Africa: US, SACU Form a Joint Working Programme to ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The Southern African Custom Union (SACU) and the United States have
agreed in ... SACU, which comprise South Africa, Namibia,
Lesotho, Botswana and Swaziland, is ...
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April 19
Southern Africa: Sacu, US Agree On Trade Talks Framework
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
THE Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) and the US have agreed
on a free ... to lock in the substantial benefits they enjoyed
under the US's Africa Growth and ...
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Southern Africa: UN Boosts Support for Industrial Development in ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The United Nations will increase its support for industrial development
in southern Africa through the opening today of a regional
office in Pretoria for the ...
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Migrants find sex trade a dead end street
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... According to Jonathan Martens at the Southern Africa
office of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), an unknown
number of women in the sex trade ...
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UN boosts support for industrial development in southern Africa
UN News Centre
19 April 2006—The United Nations will increase its support for industrial
development in southern Africa through the opening today
of a regional office in ...
April 18
US sees hope in Africa trade deal as talks stall
Washington Post - United States
... while the two sides had failed to break an impasse on a number
of issues, his country wanted to find other ways of kickstarting investment
in southern Africa. ...
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Business groups warn South Africa on red tape
Financial Times - London,England,UK
... Last week the British Chamber of Business in Southern
Africa said immigration problems âare having a detrimental impact
on the short-term effective running ...
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Southern Africa: EU-SADC Lobby to Hold Mining Summit
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Known as "MINES 2006," the meeting will bring together project
promoters and investors in the mining industry from the Southern
Africa Development Community in ...
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April 17
US refuses to budge ahead of S.Africa trade talks
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,South Africa
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The United States hopes to agree a road-map with
southern Africa on reaching a trade pact this week but will
not budge on key issues ...
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April 16
Zimbabwe Red Cross scores a first on AIDS treatment preparedness
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... AIDS and the use of treatment in the community,â says Patrick
Couteau, the Federationâs ART resource mobilization delegate for east
and southern Africa. ...
SOUTHERN AFRICA : Quake rattles Zimbabwe and Mozambique again
African News Dimension - Johannesburg,South Africa
... The biggest Southern African earthquake in decades struck
the Save Valley in Mozambique ... much of Zimbabwe and Mozambique
and parts of north-east South Africa. ...
April 13
"Transparent Elections": Millenium Development Goals 2005
Azerbaijan
... mortality since 1990. Countries reeling from AIDS, especially
in Southern Africa, have also seen sudden rises in under-five
mortality. ...
Southern Africa: Namibians to Live Longer, Says WHO
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Namibia's life expectancy is higher than those of its neighbouring
southern African countries ... Lesotho at 41, Namibia at
54 and African giant South Africa at 48. ...
April 12
Nigerian African Policy Needs Revisions-Reassessments
Nigeria Community - London,UK
... Thereafter, Nigeria spearheaded the anti Apartheid and Liberation
Movements for the then colonized countries in Southern Africa,
namely, Angola, Mozambique ...
Southern Africa: Mogae Unhappy With Progress On EPAs
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... that there has not been much progress in harmonising the negotiating
positions between the SADC group and the Eastern and Southern Africa
(ESA) configuration. ...
April 11
Southern Africa: Leaders Commit to Stepping Up HIV/Aids Prevention
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... At the Southern African launch, South African Health
Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang described ... for 60 percent
of those infected with HIV in Africa, had borne ...
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Central Africa: Int'l Conference On Great Lakes Region Opens Here ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
In a press release sent to ENA Sunday, the AU said that the regional economic
communities that include Southern Africa Development Community
(SADC), Common ...
April 10
Southern Africa: Country's Participation in SADC Games Uncertain
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Angola's participation in the Southern Africa Development
Community (SADC) II Games from 26 June to 05 July in Windhoek, Namibia,
is still uncertain, says a ...
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Southern Africa: Zim Ratifies SADC Protocol On Fugitives
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... police to facilitate prosecution of suspects wanted in connection
with corruption who have taken refuge in some Sadc countries, particul
arly South Africa. ...
April 9
Southern Africa ECONOMIC GROWTH FOLLOWS CHANGE
TMCnet - USA
(Financial Mail Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)Southern Africa
ECONOMIC GROWTH FOLLOWS CHANGE Mention SA's pan-African corporate
giants and companies like MTN ...
Apr 07
Africa in pictures: 1-7 April
BBC News - UK
... On Wednesday, during a tour of South Africa, US musician
Quincy Jones visits a transition home for babies orphaned or abandoned
as a result of Aids. ...
East Africa: Kenya-Uganda Railyway Concession Agreements Signed
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Two documents, the Uganda concession agreement, and the Interface agreement
were yesterday signed at the Ministry of Finance headquarters. ...
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Southern Africa: Cross-Border Crime Rising As Economy Sinks
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Police forces in Southern Africa are waking up to a new threat:
gangs of disciplined, well-armed former Zimbabwean soldiers involved in
high-value robberies. ...
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Nokia Face of Africa not beauty pageant
African News Dimension - Johannesburg,South Africa
Vicky Cursham, a London based Model Management Executive and one of the
judges of Nokia Face of Africa, the model scout initiative, has
categorically stated ...
Brad & Angelina Visit Africa
People Magazine - USA
... Pitt and Angelina Jolie have left France and are staying in
a secluded beach resort in Namibia, a country in the southwest corner
of Africa, the Associated ...
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Africa's air industry seeks safer skies
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Bamako - Africa's air industry and civil aviation officials
were grappling with how to fix the continent's reputation for dangerous
skies, where more than a ...
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Four Projects Receive Inspiration Lives in Africa Honours
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Four Namibia projects have been bestowed with Standard Bank's Inspiration
Lives in Africa award. Each project received N$50000 for ...
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AFRICA: Health worker migration - can it be stemmed
Reuters AlertNet - London
JOHANNESBURG, 7 April (IRIN) - There is a universal shortage of 4.3 million
healthcare workers, but the crisis is most severe in Africa, according
to the World ...
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Apr 06
Southern Africa: Power Cuts On Way for Southern Africa Region
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... sparingly. Eskom, Musaba said, had been asked to extend its
energy efficiency programmes to other countries in southern Africa.
...
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East Africa trade bloc delays common market to 2010
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,South Africa
DAR ES SALAAM - The East African Community (EAC) regional trade
bloc has delayed the launch of a common market by three years until 2010,
the member ...
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Burkina culls fowl as flu test delays worry Africa
Reuters AlertNet - London
... Faso started to cull poultry on Thursday in the area where birds
died of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu, as the disease's spread
in Africa and diagnosis ...
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Apr 05
PanAfrica: IATA Invests in Africa's Air Safety
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Stressing that safety is the most urgent faced by Africa's aviation
industry, Giovanni Bisignani, Iata's CEO, says a number of African
airlines have already ...
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Apr 04
South Africa: Country Steps Up 2010 Preparations As Region Joins ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
South Africa is speeding up preparations for the 2010 World Cup
finals with plans to prepare 10 stadiums as southern African steps up
efforts to maximise ...
Analysts say Climate, Poverty Exacerbate Drought in Horn of Africa
Voice of America - USA
By Angel Tabe. Humanitarian agencies say the drought situation in East
Africa is not getting better. They say droughts are becoming ...
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East Africa Pastoralists Try Different Strategies for Coping with ...
Voice of America - USA
Humanitarian aid workers say people are using different methods to cope
with the current drought in the Horn of Africa and other parts
of East Africa. ...
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PanAfrica: Mobile Fastest Way to Bridge Digital Divide in Africa ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Stakeholders in the GSM industry in Africa rose up from the GSM
Conference and Exhibition in Abuja last week with a recommendation that
mobile technology ...
UN exec warns of Horn of Africa drought
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
GENEVA -- A lack of rain in the Horn of Africa could further devastate
a region where international agencies already are feeding 7 million people,
a top UN ...
Apr 02
Africa needs more energy investment
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
ALGIERS: Africa could play a bigger role in ensuring global energy
security if explorers increased investment in its "huge" oil
and gas potential, an African ...
UN grants US$1.7 m for life-saving relief ...
African News Dimension - Johannesburg,South Africa
... over $1.7 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF)
to the World Health Organization for urgent, life-saving programmes in
the Horn of Africa. ...
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Africa wants special attention - Botswana
African News Dimension - Johannesburg,South Africa
... The Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Baledzi Gaolathe,
told the CFTC Africa Regional Consultative meeting in Gaborone,
that over the past six ...
Africa must shape its own destiny: Mbeki
SABC News - Auckland Park,South Africa
Unless Africa takes control of its own destiny, it will continue
to be dictated to by the rich and powerful, according to President Thabo
Mbeki who delivered ...
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Justice for Africa: Charles Taylor in the Dock
DemocracyArsenal.org - New York,NY,USA
If things go as planned from now on, Taylor's extradition could become
a major step toward justice and accountability in Africa. ...
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Apr 01
Area pair join war on AIDS in Africa
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA
Two Olympia residents will travel to Africa next week during a mission
to identify ways local Rotary clubs can help stem the HIV/AIDS epidemic
that is ...
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German president to visit southern Africa
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
... This is his second trip to the African continent. "As far
as I am concerned, the humanity of our world is measured by the fate of
Africa," Koehler said when he ...
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Face To Face With Africa's Retreating Forest
OhmyNews International - South Korea
... The Cameroon example is a microcosm of what is happening to
the rain forests of Africa. In addressing the issue during the
ongoing ... |
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