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Fisheries Can Play Key Role in Africa Davison Makanga interviews MARI-LISE DU PREEZ, forests, fisheries and governance expert CAPE TOWN - Fisheries contribute at least $10 billion dollars to African economies every year. In countries such as Angola, Egypt and Namibia, fisheries are vital economic drivers. MORE >>
Mali Nomads Flee Drought By Soumaïla T. Diarra BAMAKO - Nomadic communities in northern Mali's desert regions are facing one of the most serious droughts of the last twenty years. MORE >>
ECONOMY "Sub-Saharan Africa Is Speeding Towards Affluence" By Julio Godoy PARIS - Africa is heading towards a bright economic future, according to a new book co-authored by the former director of the French state agency for economic cooperation and released recently in Paris. MORE >>
KENYA A Bid to Save Macadamia Crops By Isaiah Esipisu NAIROBI - Joseph Ndirangu Muriithi is a worried man. After watching the fall of coffee farming in Kenya a decade ago, he now fears that his other cash crop will also go into decline as a new disease preys on his macadamia trees. MORE >>
BOTSWANA Acquiring a Taste for Recycled Water By Alma Balopi GABORONE - Many Batswana are quick to recoil at the mere mention of drinking treated wastewater. MORE >>
AFRICA Modified Banana Could Cure Deadly Disease By Busani Bafana HARARE - An innovation by researchers in Nigeria could be a cure for the devastating Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW) - responsible for annual losses in excess of 500 million dollars of crop across East and Central Africa. But it has also fuelled debate on the genetic engineering of crops in Africa. MORE >>
MALAWI Used Car Dealers Seeing Red Over New Green Tax By Claire Ngozo LILONGWE - Small-scale importers of used cars in Malawi are crying foul over a government decision to introduce higher duties on second-hand passenger vehicles aged eight years and older. MORE >>
Shark Slaughter Advances Into Red Sea By Cam McGrath HURGHADA, Egypt - Six Yemeni fishing boats captured in Egyptian territorial waters in June might have gone unnoticed if not for their unusual cargo -- several kilometers of long lines and over 20 tons of dead sharks. MORE >>
WORLD Cooking Up a Climate Deal Analysis by Laure Pichegru and Terna Gyuse* JOHANNESBURG - Another round of negotiations towards a global treaty on climate change concluded in Bonn on Aug. 6, with activists calling on parties to rediscover a spirit of compromise and make offers rather than demands. MORE >>
AFRICA Bring Water Into Climate Change Negotiations By Servaas van den Bosch BONN - Longer periods of drought, decreased river flow, higher rainfall variability and lower soil moisture content: water is at the heart of the impacts of climate change. Yet the precious commodity scarcely features in climate negotiations. MORE >>
Wanted: Pied Piper for Swazi Village Under Siege By Mantoe Phakathi QOMINTABA, Swaziland - When good rains finally fell, Catherine Mngomezulu was so hopeful that this year she would reap a bumper harvest. Then the rats appeared. MORE >>
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