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DEVELOPMENT-KENYA: Fears Over New Land Deal
By Joyce Mulama
NAIROBI - Concern is mounting in Kenya that the government has leased a big slice of agricultural land to the Qatari foreign investors to produce food for export.
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HEALTH: ‘Global Response Needed for Global (Flu) Challenge’
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - Health ministers and representatives of 43 countries and the World Health Organisation (WHO) began to meet Thursday in the Mexican resort city of Cancun to discuss a common strategy to curb the spread of the H1N1 flu virus.
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US-ECUADOR: Chevron Fails in Effort to Lift Trade Benefits
By Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - In the latest in a string of setbacks that could cost the U.S. oil giant Chevron billions of dollars in damages, President Barack Obama decided this week to extend trade preferences for Ecuadorean exports for another six months under the 1991 Andean Trade Preferences Act (ATPA).
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TRADE: Who’s Harming Fish Stocks? Trawlers or Artisanal Fishers?
By Isolda Agazzi
GENEVA - Red tunas, sharks, rays and cods may soon disappear from our tables. Negotiations are ongoing at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to reduce the subsidies that contribute to this catastrophe. These talks foresee exceptions for developing countries, but small fishers may have to turn to other sources of livelihood.
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ECONOMY: Migrant Miseries Will Trickle Down Worldwide, U.N. Warns
By Charlotte Lalanne
UNITED NATIONS - At least 150 million migrant workers - out of an estimated total of 200 million in the world today - fit the "demographic characteristics of workers who are the most vulnerable" during the current global financial crisis, the U.N. says.
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ECONOMY-UGANDA: Traders Go Down as Prices Go Up
By Wambi Michael
KAMPALA - With the world economy in the grip of a credit crunch, traders and consumers in Uganda are struggling with price inflation and the depreciation of the country’s currency, the Ugandan shilling, against the dollar. Especially importers have not been able to bring goods in which were ordered when prices were lower.
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MIDEAST: Finding Fish, But Israelis Too
By Eva Bartlett
GAZA CITY - "They told us 'go west or we will shoot you'," says Ashraf Sadallah. "Initially, we refused, so they began shooting very close all around our boat."
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POLITICS: U.N. Decries Aid Shortfall in Afghanistan
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations, which has expressed disappointment over the slow disbursement of development aid to crisis-stricken Afghanistan, has hurled one of its biggest political insults at Western donors: threatening to turn to a U.S. philanthropist for financial assistance.
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LABOUR-US: Senate Divided Over Bill to Boost Unions
By Henry Parr
NEW YORK - Since its initial proposal in 2007, the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) has been a divisive bill, passing in the House but not in the Senate. Now, the bill's original author, Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa, is working on a compromise that he hopes will pass.
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US-COLOMBIA: Uribe Presses FTA in First Encounter with Obama
By Danielle Kurtzleben and Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - Long-stalled efforts to consummate a free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States and Colombia may be gaining some momentum, despite persistent questions about Bogota's human rights record.
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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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ECONOMY-US: Congress Pushing for Federal Reserve Audit
By Matthew Cardinale
ATLANTA - A majority of the U.S. House of Representatives is now in support of a historic bill by Republican lawmaker Ron Paul to audit the Federal Reserve (the Fed), the privately run central bank that sets monetary policy for the United States.
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SOUTH AFRICA: Young, Educated and Unemployed
By Miriam Mannak
CAPE TOWN - Unemployment among young South Africans is hovering at 30 percent, shooting up to over 60 percent for youths in their late teens and early twenties. But tertiary education and skills development seem not to be making much of a dent in what is now regarded as a crisis.
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