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Mozambique
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Mozambique: Respecting sex work

afrol News / Gender Links, 26 November - Mozambique's deputy Minister of Women's Affairs and Social Welfare, João Kandiyane, has launched a fight that few men are bold enough to raise. He has called for the urgent establishment of legislation that would lead to the respect of the fundamental rights of sex workers.

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Angola
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Angola attains high economic growth

afrol News, 24 August - Angolan economy has performed extremely well in 2006, recording 18.6% which is far more than most African countries.

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Zimbabwe
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Mugabe pressurised on reforms

afrol News, 24 August - Despite victoriously emerging from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit last week, President Robert Mugabe was subject to closed-door pressures by his colleagues. He was asked to comply with the common electoral rules adopted across the SADC region in 2004.

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Liberia
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Illegal Liberians’ deportation contested

afrol News, 24 August - Thousands of illegal Liberians in the United States will be forced to leave on 1 October after the Department of Home Security has ended their Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

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South Africa
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‘Nutrition no substitute for ARV’

afrol News, 24 August - A South African study has found no evidence that better nutrition can substitute anti-retroviral treatment (ARV). This comes at a time when South Africans have been debating whether nutrition can be an alternative to ARVs.

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» 04.06.2007 - Month-old general strike threatens Chadians
» 11.04.2007 - Mali finds no good way to boost health services
» 04.04.2007 - Demolition worries Cameroonians
» 02.04.2007 - More aid for Lesotho's numerous orphans
» 28.03.2007 - PM tells Guineans to "be patient"
» 28.03.2007 - Somali govt starts issuing new e-passports
» 27.03.2007 - Swaziland addresses heavy-drinking reputation
» 09.03.2007 - Kenya's tourist coast attracts youths, sex workers
» 08.03.2007 - Mali govt to "beat malaria this year"
» 23.02.2007 - Mozambique Minister spying on lazy workers
» 22.02.2007 - Risky business of informal cross-border trade
» 02.01.2007 - Mbeki invites South Africans to tackle challenges
» 08.12.2006 - Doom awaits African beggars
» 07.12.2006 - Health continue to hinder Africa's progress
» 23.11.2006 - West Africans parents "tricked into child trafficking"
» 20.11.2006 - Morocco economy grows, welfare not
» 10.11.2006 - Not wanted: rich, African nations
» 09.11.2006 - Swaziland's parliament goes on 'strike'
» 07.11.2006 - Zimbabwe women preach love to demand change
» 06.11.2006 - Eritrea expels more aid agencies
» 19.10.2006 - Zim women face tough career or mothering decision
» 10.10.2006 - 50% of South African children go to bed hungry
» 04.10.2006 - 87% of young Saharawis want to emigrate
» 19.06.2006 - Generous herdsmen of Niger honoured by UNESCO
» 02.06.2006 - Kenya announces free AIDS, malaria drugs
» 04.04.2006 - Health workers turn back on Nigeria
» 03.04.2006 - Niger battles malaria
» 30.03.2006 - Angola slammed over forced evictions
» 08.09.2005 - Human development report shocks South Africa
» 18.03.2005 - Child mortality up by 50% in Zimbabwe
» 16.02.2005 - Egypt houses up to 1 million stateless children
» 11.02.2005 - San eviction trial goes on in Botswana
» 06.12.2004 - South Africa ends race rating of blood donors
» 01.12.2004 - Impact of AIDS on South Africa's elderly underrated
» 30.11.2004 - Germans to build cheap housing in Ethiopia
» 18.11.2004 - "Zambia not hindered from hiring teachers," IMF
» 15.10.2004 - 7.3 million vaccinated against measles in Madagascar
» 06.10.2004 - Namibia discusses pension, gift for outgoing President
» 14.09.2004 - Uganda, Nigeria to regulate traditional healers
» 09.09.2004 - Traditional healers recognised by South African lawmakers
» 01.09.2004 - Strife brings poverty and recession to Côte d'Ivoire
» 26.08.2004 - Public services collapsed in rebel-held parts of Côte d'Ivoire
» 26.08.2004 - Ghanaian King fronts work for disabled
» 01.07.2004 - Sierra Leone re-establishes water supply
» 18.05.2004 - Support for São Tomé's social sectors
» 03.02.2004 - Frustration over South African AIDS budget cuts
» 02.02.2004 - Water tariffs to rise in South Africa
» 29.01.2004 - Public health law approved in Cape Verde
» 23.01.2004 - Some 80% of Somalis now illiterate
» 22.01.2004 - Kenyan, Tanzanian "financiers of terrorism" named
» 07.01.2004 - South African govt admits existence of more than 200 living deads
» 03.11.2003 - Senegalese artists, business unite against AIDS
» 19.07.2003 - Angola approves new social protection act
» 24.06.2003 - Efforts to improve Angola's social services

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