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POLITICS-BOTSWANA: Parties Block Women Candidates for Upcoming Elections
By Ephraim Nsingo
GABORONE - As Botswana prepares for general elections in October, gender activists are protesting against the lack of female parliamentary candidates.
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ZIMBABWE: 'Money Comes First, Health Second'
By Phyllis Kachere
HARARE - With half her body immersed in a muddy red pond, Esther Nyarambi closely inspects the contents of her wooden panning dish, locally known as zamba. Having spent the entire day pounding gold-bearing rock, she hopes her efforts will be rewarded with even the smallest nugget of gold.
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POVERTY-MAURITIUS: Labouring Through a Class Four Cyclone
By Nasseem Ackbarally
PORT-LOUIS - Thousands of workers in the textile and manufacturing industry in Mauritius have been forced into unemployment and poverty within the last few months, as factories announced multiple rounds of job cuts due to the global financial crisis.
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HEALTH-SOUTHERN AFRICA: AIDS Relief: 'We Might Have to Be More Selective'
Servaas van den Bosch interviews THOMAS WALSH, PEPFAR coordinator
WINDHOEK - What started as a multi-billion dollar tsunami against HIV/AIDS during the presidency of George W. Bush has trickled down to a carefully channelled stream of funding under president Barack Obama. Instead of the additional billion dollars a year promised for AIDS funding, Congress approved a meagre $165 million increase for 2010.
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MADAGASCAR: Hunger Stalks Drought-Stricken South
By Fanja Saholiarisoa
ANTANANARIVO - The southern part of the island of Madagascar is suffering severe drought and famine. Lack of rainfall during the summer season has destroyed the country’s main harvest in March and April. Half a million Malagasy have little or no access to clean water and food.
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Q&A: The Key is Economic Growth for People
Kristin Palitza interviews TERENCE CORRIGAN, researcher, South African Institute for International Affairs (SAIIA)
JOHANNESBURG - Countries around the world have committed themselves to reach eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. MDG 8 seeks to develop a global partnership for development, including sustainable debt and an open, rule-based and non-discriminatory system of trade and finance.
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HEALTH-MOZAMBIQUE: Scant Progress With Paediatric HIV
By Ruth Ayisi
INHAMBANE, Mozambique - Christina M.* looks worried as she cradles one of her sick twin babies. The mother of five already lost twins and another baby to illness soon after childbirth a few years ago.
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ENVIRONMENT-ZIMBABWE: Farmers Go to War Against Lantana Camara
By Phyllis Kachere
HARARE - Armed with picks, axes and hoes, a group of enthusiastic villagers break into song: "Randana kamara wakaipa, Randana kamara wakashata.Watora ufuro hwezvipfuyo, wauraya mombe." ("Lantana camara, you are evil. You have taken over grazing land for our livestock, you have killed our cattle.")
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LESOTHO-WATER: One Dollar Per Square Kilometre: Now Get Off Your Land
By Thabo Mohale
MASERU - The construction of a two billion dollar dam in Metolong, some 35 kilometres outside of Lesotho’s capital Maseru, is being welcomed by people in and around the city who will gain access to clean and safe drinking water when construction is completed in 2013.
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POVERTY-ANGOLA: NGOs Sceptical of Govt’s Rural Development Plans
By Louise Redvers
LUANDA - In an attempt to reduce rural poverty, Angola’s government plans to diversify its oil-focused economy by trying to restore the country’s once-booming agricultural sector.
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LESOTHO: Cultural Beliefs Threaten Prevention of Mother-Child HIV Transmission
By Thabo Mohale
MASERU - A health centre in one of Lesotho’s poorest districts has scored significant success in implementing a prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) programme, but health experts warn that a number of factors, including cultural beliefs and stigma, threaten to derail it.
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In 2000, 189 nations committed themselves to effectively respond to the world's main development challenges by 2015. They set themselves eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

Halfway to the 2015 deadline, IPS Africa is examining progress towards these goals in Southern Africa. Through insightful reportage, commentary and analysis from throughout the SADC region, we are looking at successes and failures in the quest to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and women's empowerment, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV/Aids, malaria and other diseases, ensure environmental sustainability and develop a Global Partnership for Development.

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 Opinion and Analysis
Trade Policy and Gender Constructs
by Liepollo Pheko
The prevailing trade paradigm presupposes the existence of equal power relations, of equal access to resources and equal voice in economic agenda setting. The ascendance of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 1995 as the overarching body has given rise to continued discussions, detailing the historical and structural inequities that prevail unfettered in the current global trading system.
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MDG Indicators: Smoke and Mirrors?
by Muna Lakhani
Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) are a worthy list of what must be done in the world as a matter of urgency. Indeed, one would be hard pressed to find anyone who does not support those goals. But are the indicators used to measure the MDGs real, or just political smoke and mirrors?
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Finding Fatherhood in the MDGs
By Trevor Davies
Responsible, committed and involved fatherhood is an essential component of any attempt to transform families and societies to better reflect gender equity, child rights and shared parenting responsibilities and enjoyment.
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Early Childhood Development Can Mitigate the Impact of HIV/AIDS
By Pam Picken
International research confirms that the first six years of life are a critical period of children's growth and development. They form the foundation for achievement of individual potential. To achieve this, we must meet young children's rights to survival, protection, development and participation. In sub-Saharan Africa, these rights are severely compromised by the twin scourges of poverty and HIV/AIDS.
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Little Progress in Achieving Gender Equality
By Sally-Jean Shackleton
Across the globe, women's rights defenders have been campaigning for an end to violence against women. South Africa is no exception. Workshops, launches, exhibitions, training events and celebrations take place across the country and the region, intensifying during national and global campaigns, such as the 16 Days of Activism to end Violence Against Women, an event taking place every December.
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Subsidies Fail to Guarantee Food Security
By Mona Frøystad
Namibia's subsidy programme, aimed at enhancing food security in the country, falls short of adequate and long-term planning. Agricultural interventions, such as these, are a challenging balancing act between protecting jobs in the sector and providing cheaper, imported food.
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UN MDG financing up in smoke
By Patrick Bond
Two statements about the global economy released earlier this week -- from the World Economic Forum (WEF) and United Nations (UN) -- leave a strong impression that Millennium Development Goal (MDG) advocacy is just not working.
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Reversal of HIV Epidemic Needs Stronger Commitment
by Rebecca Hodes
Southern Africa is often referred to as the 'epicentre' of the global HIV epidemic. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated that by the end of 2007, 33.2 million people were living with HIV, two thirds of whom were residing in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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The Lessons of History
By Françoise Le Goff
In 1972, as global markets collapsed and the world fell into recession, humanitarian budgets fell by 15 percent. In the early nineties, as the world teetered on the brink of economic breakdown, aid fell into a five-year decline that saw 25 percent of development and emergency spending slashed across the board.
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Milestones and Challenges Towards Poverty Reduction and Economic Growth
Analysis by Michael Keating
Four years ago, Malawi was in bad shape. The economy was shackled by international and domestic debt, with inflation peaking at 15.4 percent in 2005. Corruption was widespread. Food security was a major problem: the 2005/2005 harvest was bad, and in the following year, up to 5 million Malawians -- 40 percent of the population -- received food and other aid.
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Research Is About Changing Lives
Analysis by David Dickinson
I live in a country where it has become normal to bury men and women in their thirties. At least it is so at township funerals.
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How to Take the MDGs Further
By Ramesh Singh
The MDGs Project is Undermining the Struggles Against Poverty
By Dot Keet
Democracy is the missing link in Africa's development
By Abdalla Hamdok
''No peace without development, and no development without peace''
By Karanja Mbugua
Africans Have to Change Their Attitudes For MDGs to Work
By Moses Onyango
The MDGs vs the Global Power Brokers
By Francis A Kornegay
Gender Rhetoric or Gender Commitment: Is it Only About Signatures?
By Gertrude Fester*
MDGs bound to fail because citizens are unaware of them
By Cheryl Hendricks*
Stemming HIV is a Mere Wish if Social Inequality is Not Tackled
By Angela Ndinga-Muvumba*
SADC—its own biggest obstacle in achieving the MDGs?
By Gabriël H Oosthuizen
POLITICS: ZIMBABWE: SADC allows ZANU-PF to get away with murder-literally
Opinion piece by Elinor Sisulu
 
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