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SA World Cup mainly to give non-material benefits

afrol News, 11 March - A new research book discussing the future benefits and legacy of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa concludes material and economic development hopes pinned to the event are mostly "overstated". The non-material legacy will become more important.

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SA land reforms "discriminate against women"

afrol News, 27 February - A new study shows that, while South Africa's slow land reform is moving lands from white to black hands, black women are increasingly being discriminated against. Customary laws prevent women from obtaining land rights.

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Cameroon
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"Overweight girls, undernourished boys" in Cameroon

afrol News, 12 February - A new study, the first of its kind in Cameroon, reveals how new nutritional trends in Central Africa are causing problems of both over- and undernourished school children.

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Nigeria
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Nigeria to get agro-research park

afrol News, 9 November - The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture on this weekend unveiled a strategy to boost agricultural research in Africa with plans to establish a "Global Research Park" in Nigeria.

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South Africa
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South African mortality crisis overcome

afrol News, 5 November - Mortality rates, which have been increasing in South Africa since the 1990s, are on their way back down, reflecting a downturn of the AIDS epidemic and signalling longer lifespans for South Africans, statistics published today reveal.

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» 04.08.2009 - AU-UN mission provides funds to Dafur
» 29.04.2009 - World Bank doubles education financing
» 10.12.2008 - African urban ecology under-studied
» 09.10.2006 - "Corrupt culture" revealed among African diplomats
» 07.09.2006 - Mortality for middle-aged South Africans doubled
» 26.01.2005 - "Dramatic increase in black affluence" in SA
» 25.01.2005 - Religious knowledge set found to check Africa's development
» 20.12.2004 - Botswana HIV rate at 17, not 40 percent
» 01.12.2004 - Impact of AIDS on South Africa's elderly underrated
» 08.11.2004 - Edible insects "rediscovered" in Central Africa
» 28.04.2004 - South Africa's women from housework to unemployment queue
» 14.01.2004 - Chancellor to introduce German-Ethiopian science cooperation
» 29.10.2003 - Deepening African-European ties studied
» 30.07.2003 - Muslim-Christian coexistence in Nigeria studied
» 25.07.2003 - Africa's early ecologic-cultural history studied
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