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Uganda Could Become Regional Rice Exporter say Researchers
By Joshua Kyalimpa
KAMPALA - In a small garden at the Entebbe Botanical garden, about 40 kilometres from Kampala, a few yellowish plants are trying to adapt to their new environment.
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Further Victims Identified in DRC Mass Rapes Case
By Aprille Muscara
UNITED NATIONS - The number of women raped by rebel groups during last month’s raid of more than a dozen villages centred around Walikale, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has risen to over 240, U.N. officials told reporters here today.
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Funding Begins Flowing for African Agriculture
By Claire Ngozo
WINDHOEK - The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) has received a major boost as several countries have begun drawing on funds from a $22 billion pledge made by the G8.
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BOTSWANA
HIV-positive Mothers Not Convinced to Exclusively Breastfeed
By Alma Balopi
GABORONE - "An HIV-positive woman must never be encouraged to breastfeed because regardless of what the doctors or researchers say - it is too dangerous for the baby," says Koziba Kelatlhe an HIV-positive mother who was advised by health workers not to breastfeed her child.
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SOUTH AFRICA
"Xenophobia Simmering Just Below Boiling Point"
By Kim Cloete
CAPE TOWN - "Xenophobia is part of life. We do not live easy here. We only survive," says Somali shopkeeper, Abdinasir Shaikh Aden, looking tense.
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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.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA
Growing Seed Security
By Mantoe Phakathi
WINDHOEK - Farmer Obed Dlamini, like many of his colleagues from Swaziland, finds it difficult to find quality maize seeds each planting season. Not only are the seeds expensive but they are often not available.
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RWANDA
Genocide Ideology and Sectarianism Laws Silencing Critics?
Analysis by Aprille Muscara
UNITED NATIONS - Among its unstable and conflict-ridden neighbours, Rwanda stands out. It has been pegged as a model of development and one of Africa’s success stories: Since the 1990’s, when a civil war ravaged the country, average incomes have doubled, its people have become healthier and less hungry and it has the highest proportion of women parliamentarians worldwide. Yet, maintaining this stability is a government accused of muzzling its opponents and committing human rights abuses.
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AFRICA
‘Welcome to My Taxi – Let’s Do Business with My Cell Phone’
By Chris Stein
JOHANNESBURG - In cities across Africa, being an entrepreneur requires no office, business card or investors. All it takes is a cell phone, according to Adele Botha, a researcher at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa.
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SOUTH AFRICA
‘Tea Bag’ Filter Provides Safe Drinking Water
By Chris Stein
JOHANNESBURG - Though it may look like a tea bag, straining water through this recently developed filter could provide a cheap, easily replenished source of water for those who need it most.
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EAST AFRICA
Protecting Lake Victoria's Top Predator
By Arnaud Bébien
MWANZA, Tanzania - Coordinated conservation measures to arrest the steep decline of stocks of Nile perch in Lake Victoria are showing encouraging results - for fish, if not for fishing communities around the lake.
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Outrage Grows Over Failure to Protect DRC Civilians
By Aprille Muscara
UNITED NATIONS - As details emerged this week of the U.N.'s knowledge of rebel activity in the villages where nearly 200 women were systematically gang raped by armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) late last month, human rights groups are demanding an investigation into the U.N.'s failure to prevent the raid from occurring.
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Sudan's President and Criminal Court in Cat-and-Mouse Game
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - Sudan's elusive President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir and the unrelenting Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo are playing a political cat- and-mouse game.
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OUGANDA: Des infirmières et une culture hostiles retardent l’implication des hommes dans la prévention du VIH

ZIMBABWE: Des enfants traversent les frontières en quête d’un traitement du VIH

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