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WORLD FOOD-DAY-PAKISTAN: Hunger, Poverty Initiatives Suspect
By Zofeen Ebrahim
KARACHI - As Pakistan’s food crisis deepens, with an estimated 60 million people facing food insecurity, the GCAP (Global Call to Action Against Poverty) plans to hold rallies through the weekend demanding ‘’public accountability’’ even for hunger and poverty alleviation initiatives.
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POLITICS-AFRICA: Critics Target U.S. Military Command
Analysis by Lawrence Delevingne
NEW YORK - In just a few months, the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) - Washington's latest military oversight structure for the continent - is expected to be fully operational.
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AFRICA: Agricultural Extension Work Both Important and Under-valued
By Kwamboka Oyaro
NAIROBI - At a time of international concern about the future of the world's food supply, it's a comment that gives pause for thought: "I teach university students agriculture and extension but many of them opt for other professions, especially in ICTs, because agriculture is 'for those who haven't gone to school'."
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MEXICO: "Emos" Under Attack
By Diego Cevallos
MEXICO CITY - "We are a komplex organisation, kapable of eliminating EMOS in this world, if you want to kontact us, our email is (…)" On-line messages like this one have been fanning a wave of intolerance against one of the lesser-known young counterculture groups in Mexico.
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COLOMBIA: Violent Society, Violent Schools
By Helda Martínez
BOGOTA - In a survey carried out in 807 public and private primary and secondary schools across the social spectrum in the Colombian capital, 56 percent of students said they had been robbed within the school premises.
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HELSINKI PROCESS: Farewell to a Unique Forum for Dialogue
Analysis by Alejandro Kirk
DAR ES SALAAM - The Helsinki Process on Globalisation and Democracy was launched five years ago by Finland and Tanzania with the aim of addressing international divisions, to achieve an inclusive globalisation process based on human and environmental security.
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HELSINKI PROCESS: Globalisation in the Dock
By Francis Kokutse and Rosalia Omungo
DAR ES SALAAM - The latest conference to be held under the Helsinki Process opened in Tanzania's commercial hub, Dar es Salaam, Tuesday, with calls for the gains of globalisation to be shared fairly amongst nations.
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RIGHTS-ZAMBIA: Cyberspace Casts Light on the Lives of Death Row Inmates
By Newton Sibanda
LUSAKA - "Can governments solve urgent social or political problems by executing a few or even hundreds of their prisoners?" asks Benjamin Mawaya, sweltering on death row in Zambia’s Mukobeko high security prison in Kabwe, 150 kilometres from the capital of Lusaka.
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POLITICS: "Take The Bull By the Horns And Move Towards a New Country - Africa"
By Joyce Mulama
ACCRA - Positions are being staked out concerning the establishment of a pan-African government, this at the annual summit of the African Union (AU), underway in Accra. Heads of state and government from around the continent began meeting in the Ghanaian capital Sunday; they will wrap up talks Tuesday.
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AFRICA: Regional Integration No Path to Continental Government, Says Gaddafi
By Moyiga Nduru
JOHANNESBURG - The final leg of the 2007 African Union (AU) summit kicked off in the Ghanaian capital of Accra Sunday, with a three-day gathering of the AU Assembly - comprising heads of state and government.
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AFRICA: Food for 12 Billion. So Why Did 854 Million Go Without?
By Christi van der Westhuizen
GENEVA - "As you are suffering from over-consumption, I am suffering from under-consumption. We need to strike a balance," said Mary Wahu Kaara from the Kenya Debt Relief Network with reference to the North and the South.
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Q&A: "Too Few African Governments Have Had the Guts to Say 'No'"
Interview with Eveline Herfkens
ROME - While Kofi Annan was the United Nations' secretary-general, he handpicked Eveline Herfkens to be the executive coordinator of the Millennium Campaign, a body which mobilises support for the achievement of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Herfkens had previously worked as the Dutch minister of international development and as an executive director at the World Bank.

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POLITICS-AFRICA: Continental Government by 2015?
By Joyce Mulama
NAIROBI - Debate on the prospects for continent-wide government in Africa is heating up ahead of the African Union (AU) summit that is scheduled to begin Jun. 25 in the Ghanaian capital of Accra.
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World Environment Day 2005 in RSS Urban blight or urban bounty?
Cities consume 75 percent of the world's resources and spew three- fourths of its waste. Mayors from 71 cities -- from Cape Town to Copenhagen, Jakarta, and Zurich -- have had enough. Teaming up with the United Nations and San Francisco, host of this year's ''Green Cities'' World Environment Day commemoration, civic leaders are issuing a 21- point pact aimed at cutting, to zero by 2040, the amount of waste cities send to landfills while reducing electricity consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Ambitious plans, to be sure, but organisers say they want every mayor on Earth to read the plan and say ''We can do these things.'' Will they?

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MEXICO: Consumers on the Offensive
RIGHTS: Gender Confab Marked by Political Uncertainties
POLITICS-NIGERIA : In the Shadows of Men: Women’s Political Marginalisation
HAITI: Caribbean Unites Behind Recovery Plans
BIODIVERSITY: Lucrative Shark Trade Under Scrutiny
DEVELOPMENT-CAMEROON: Are Women the Magic Bullet for "Electoral Apathy"?
RIGHTS: Guatemala, El Salvador Ordered to Heed Rulings
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