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RIGHTS-SWAZILAND: Property Rights At Last for Women By Mantoe Phakathi MBABANE - A recent court ruling has finally given Swazi women the right to own and administer property in their own names. MORE >>
UGANDA: Pressure Mounts to Make Public Oil Agreements By Joshua Kyalimpa KAMPALA - Uganda’s members of parliament (MPs) are pressurising government to make public details of oil production-sharing agreements it signed with various international oil companies. MORE >>
DR CONGO: Will Poultry Project Live up to Expectations? By Emmanuel Chaco KINSHASA - For some seven million Congolese living in Kinshasa the only meat and poultry they could buy to eat since the 1980s was frozen imports from Western countries, distributed locally by a few local businessmen. MORE >>
RIGHTS: What Fish may do for Western Sahara By David Cronin BRUSSELS - Legal advice stating that European vessels have no justification to fish off Western Sahara - a territory occupied by Morocco - has provoked a row between the main political institutions in Brussels. MORE >>
EAST AFRICA: Improving Local Access to Family Planning By Isaiah Esipisu KAMPALA - A severe shortage of highly-trained medical personnel is one of the many challenges to providing health care at a local level across Africa. Task shifting - permitting less-specialised people to carry out certain functions - is one proposal to over come this, but it is meeting resistance. MORE >>
AFRICA: "Women's Decade": Greater Attention to Implementation By Omer Redi ADDIS ABABA - Fears that the impact of the global economic meltdown would affect funding to various development areas have been rife. Already, several governments have cut their budgets for HIV and AIDS and bilateral and multilateral funding partners have done likewise. MORE >>
ENERGY-SOUTHERN AFRICA: Small Is Beautiful, Say Independent Power Producers By Servaas van den Bosch WINDHOEK - Independent power producers argue that small hydroelectric plants have a key role to play in avoiding an energy shortfall in the Southern African region. MORE >>
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Women Traders Demand Support By Ntandoyenkosi Ncube JOHANNESBURG - Support for regional trade is one of the cornerstones of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). But the focus has been on large scale trade in goods and services, ignoring one important group trading throughout the region. MORE >>
COTE D'IVOIRE: Policy Changes Revive Poultry Industry By Fulgence Zamblé ABATTA, Côte d'Ivoire - Ivorian poultry producers are enjoying strong growth thanks to the imposition of a tax on imports of poultry products from the European Union and South America. MORE >>
MALAWI: Free Education At What Price By Claire Ngozo LILONGWE - He fishes by night and sells his catch by day. He's the breadwinner for his family of six. Maliko Malombe is nine years old. MORE >>
ZIMBABWE: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Arrears? By Zenzele Ndebele BULAWAYO - Faced with nearly six billion dollars of external debt, Zimbabwe's national unity government is considering applying for Highly Indebted Poor Country status. MORE >>
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The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) is a regional arm of the UN with 53 African member states. Its primary responsibility is to encourage the growth of the economic and social sectors of the continent.
