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Africa
Economy - Development | Politics
AU fears donors will cut African aid
afrol News, 10 October - Jakaya Kikwete, the Chairman of the African Union (AU) and President of Tanzania, today told the press in Antananarivo that the AU fears international donors may cut aid to Africa as the global financial crisis deepens. Experiences from earlier crises show his concerns are well founded.
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South Africa
Economy - Development
SA economy in limbo
afrol News, 10 October - The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has fallen strongly, but not as much as bourses in the North, and South African business stakeholders are insecure whether the country will profit or lose out during the current global crisis. Foreign investors are more negative and have sent the rand straight downwards.
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Africa | World
Agriculture - Nutrition | Economy - Development
Banana farmers urged to up local market production
afrol News, 10 October - With lessening access to European markets threatening to cost African banana farmers millions of dollars in lost exports, an international assembly of banana experts meeting in Kenya today adviced African growers to hasten to take advantage of various local and regional opportunities for expanding production and boosting incomes. Read more
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Namibia | World
Politics | Society
Namibia independence gave Peace Prize
afrol News, 10 October - Finland's peace broker Martti Ahtisaari today was granted the prestigious Nobel Peace Price. His first diplomatic success was the negotiation of a lasting peace and independence for Namibia, which Mr Ahtisaari today described as his key achievement and which paved way for his engagements in Aceh (Indonesia) and Kosovo (ex-Yugoslavia).
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Africa | Niger
Society | Human rights | Media
AU comments Niger journalist release
afrol News, 10 October - In a move unheard of, the African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson has expressed "satisfaction at the liberation" of Nigerien journalist Moussa Kaka, thus indirectly criticising the decision of jailing him in the first place.
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Ethiopia
Agriculture - Nutrition
"Millions more Ethiopians going hungry"
afrol News, 10 October - According to new information released by Oxfam International, aid efforts for Ethiopia are stalling while the number of Ethiopians needing emergency assistance has leapt by 40 percent from 4.6 million to 6.4 million people since June. Cereal rations to those needing assistance had been "reduced by a third because not enough food is reaching the country," it said.
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Cameroon
Politics | Society | Human rights | Culture - Arts
Cameroonian songbird jailed for rioting
afrol News, 10 October - Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) has condemned three-year prison sentence and excessive fine imposed on well-known Cameroonian singer-songwriter Lapiro de Mbanga (real name Pierre Roger Lambo Sandjo) who was arrested earlier this year for allegedly being part of anti-government demonstrations. Read more
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Africa
Economy - Development
Africa to be hit by world crisis
African Future, 9 October - While economic growth projections for Africa in 2009 remain quite optimistic, the continent is set to feel a negative impact of the global financial crisis. Credits will be more difficult to obtain and development aid transfers are set to be reduced.
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Travel - Leisure | Economy - Development
African property boom drying up
afrol News, 9 October - Countries like Morocco, Egypt and Cape Verde have seen a property market boom over the last few years fuelling their national economy and stock markets. As a consequence of the global finance crisis, investments in these boom sectors are now quickly drying up and the outlook is bleak. Analyses regarding the tourism industry's future however vary.
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Libya
Politics
Libya starts paying terror victims
afrol News, 9 October - The government of Libya has started paying compensation to the families of the victims of terror actions attributed to Tripoli in the 1980s. Libya however still does no recognise responsibilities for the acts.
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Senegal
Agriculture - Nutrition | Gender - Women | Economy - Development | Society
IFAD funds poverty alleviating project in Senegal
afrol News, 9 October - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has announced its plan to finance a US$15 million project in Senegal, which aims to assist poor communities living in west African nation's "groundnut basin." Read more
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» 09.10.2008 - Moroccan solar partnership to expand business interest to N/Africa
» 09.10.2008 - Former Rwandan official and genocide suspect transferred to Tanzania
» 09.10.2008 - New deal to erase Zambia's oil-import nightmares
» 09.10.2008 - Major food appeal for Zimbabwe flighted
» 08.10.2008 - Kenya deports anti-Obama author
» 08.10.2008 - AU urges urgent funds for its peace operations
» 08.10.2008 - Sierra Leonean refugees' benefits expire
» 08.10.2008 - Split inevitable in ANC camp
» 08.10.2008 - WCF awards grants to Institutions in Cocoa-producing countries
» 08.10.2008 - Aid agencies suspend work in eastern Chad
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