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Wednesday, May 16, 2012   20:35 GMT    
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By NAIROBI
Despite Economic Growth, Food Insecurity Lingers in Africa - Everlyne Wanjiku, a single mother of five, has earned a living selling vegetables in the sprawling Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, for over three decades. And even though her earnings were meagre, she was able to provide all her children with a tertiary education.
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By NAIROBI
Less Politics, More Economic Development - Economic and social growth have become the heart of the development agenda of the bloc of leading emerging economies known as IBSA (India, Brazil and South Africa) since it began focusing less on politics.
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By BULAWAYO
Women Farmers Are Key to a Food-Secure Africa - While women constitute the majority of food producers, processors and marketers in Africa, their role in the agricultural sector still remains a minor one because of cultural and social barriers.
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By JOHANNESBURG
Water Infrastructure Falls Far Short in Southern Africa - The cost of maintaining and expanding water infrastructure in southern Africa is high. And while South Africa may be in a better economic position than the rest of the region, it also faces funding challenges that are similar to those of its neighbours.
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By CAPE TOWN, South Africa
Skipping Lunch to Afford a Mobile Phone in Africa - On a continent of over one billion people, where half the population have mobile phones, the use of mobile communication and internet technologies is crucial to boost development in Africa.
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By RIO DE JANEIRO
Brazil Forging Strategic Alliance with Africa - The Brazilian government of Dilma Rousseff is taking firm steps towards stronger relations with Africa, such as the creation of a special fund to finance development projects together with multilateral lenders like the World Bank.
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By CAPE TOWN, South Africa
Governments Can’t Do It Alone - African countries need more support from the private sector in order to meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by 2015, which include important development targets like poverty reduction, and improved health and education.
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By ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal
Cashew Producers' Pain Is Intermediaries’ Gain in Senegal - Cashew nut growers in the southern Senegalese region of Casamance are complaining bitterly that intermediaries are cutting them out of a fair share of the profits.
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By JUBA
Hit by Fighting, Now by Prices - As thousands of people flee the conflict in South Sudan’s northern border states, increasing numbers have also been forced to leave their homes and towns in search of affordable food.
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By NAIROBI
Kenya "Becoming Economic Heartbeat of Africa" - When Kenya’s newly announced geothermal power generation project comes online, it will turn the East African country into an economic powerhouse in the region.
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By GENEVA
Intra-African Trade or Global Integration: A Chicken-and-Egg Dilemma? - Though the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has long held that trade between African countries is too low, experts at the South Centre, an inter-governmental think tank of developing countries, say intra-continental trade is already significant in manufactured goods and promises a new path to industrialisation.
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By LAMBAYAMA, Sierra Leone
Listening to the Hum of Tilling Machinery in the Sierra Leone Countryside - In the eastern Sierra Leonean community of Lambayama, rice paddies are carved far into the landscape before being abruptly halted by distant hills. Aside from a paved road that draws a grey line through the green, swampy valley, it looks much as it did a century ago.
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By CAPE TOWN, South Africa
Increasing Investment Opportunities in Africa - More than three years after the start of the global economic crisis, which has had a considerable impact on African trade, investments and gross domestic product, investment prospects on the continent are increasing.
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By LILONGWE
Banda Gives New Lease on Life to Malawi - She has been in office for less than a week but Malawi’s, and the region’s, first female president, Joyce Banda, has given many people in this poor southern African country hope that its social and economic woes will soon end.
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By CAPE TOWN, South Africa
The Business of South Africa’s Garbage - Nokwanda Sotyantya sits among heaps of garbage and patiently sorts through it, separating cardboard, plastic, glass, paper and metal, piece by piece. The recycled piles of trash are then weighed and sold to packaging manufacturers in South Africa that reuse the materials to create new products.
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