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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 >>
BIODIVERSITY: Companies Push Hard to Halt Tuna Collapse By Stephen Leahy* VICTORIA, Seychelles - In the Seychelles' only cannery, the din of thousands of empty tuna cans rattling on narrow metal troughs is incredible as they bustle along, soon to be filled with Skipjack tuna that only days ago were swimming freely in the inky blue Indian Ocean. MORE >>
ETHIOPIA: Dam Critics Won't Go Away By IPS Correspondents ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia is building a 240-metre high dam on the Omo River that is intended to end the country's electricity shortage and supply power to neighbouring countries. Not everyone's happy. MORE >>
KENYA: Insuring Pastoralists Against Increasing Risks By Susan Anyangu-Amu NAIROBI - The droughts in the Turkana region were less severe when she was growing up, says Laura Letapalel, and pastoralists could still find some grass and water for their animals. Now, she laments, the droughts are longer and there is nothing to eat. MORE >>
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Sierra Leone Sees Opportunity to Rise Up By Mohamed Fofanah FREETOWN - The World Social Forum held in Nairobi in 2007 inspired Sierra Leonean activists to organise themselves to demand things like housing, health care and greater accountability from their government. That inspiration was not sustained. MORE >>
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Africa Continues to Draw Inspiration Stanley Kwenda interviews DAKARAYI MATANGA, Southern Africa Social Forum HARARE - The same kind of worldwide solidarity that helped bring down apartheid is necessary to free the global South from economic domination. MORE >>
SWAZILAND: Dreams of Free Education Deferred By Mantoe Phakathi MBABANE - Ten-year-old Tembuso Magagula sat outside her classroom with her shoulders hunched against the cold today, tears streaming from her eyes. Her long-awaited first day of school had turned into a nightmare. MORE >>
COTE D'IVOIRE: Banana Producers Turn To Regional Markets By Salif D. Cheickna ABIDJAN - Twelve thousand people working on Côte d'Ivoire's banana plantations face uncertainty as the European Union begins implementing a new agreement governing tariffs on bananas. MORE >>
ZIMBABWE: Water Scarcity No Obstacle To Bulawayo Farmers By Busani Bafana BULAWAYO - A project in Zimbabwe's second city, Bulawayo, is creatively using "marginal water" to ease water scarcity while helping residents provide food and earn a living. MORE >>
EGYPT: Economists Blame 'Neo-liberalism' for Region's Woes By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani CAIRO - Egypt embarked on "neo-liberal" economics more than three decades ago reorienting its socialist-oriented policies towards those of the "free market." Now, however, many critics call the strategy a failure and blame it for the country's rampant poverty and unemployment. MORE >>
Q&A: "Intellectual Property Rights Do Not Assure Quality" Christi van der Westhuizen and Wambi Michael interview SISULE MUSUNGU, intellectual property rights expert CAPE TOWN and KAMPALA - Kenya and Tanzania have recently passed anti-counterfeit laws and regulations that risk blocking legitimate generic medicines instead of fake products, which is the purported purpose of these laws. Uganda is now considering a similar bill. 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.
