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Children in a school in Mozambique
06/30/2007 As international donors meet in Maputo to discuss Mozambique's development, Elísio Macamo uses the country as an example of how aid can undermine sovereignty - and why former President Joaquim Chissano - a man admired for his diplomatic skills, composure and good manners - got angry.
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From: European Network on Debt and Development
Related: [Mozambique]
Image: Children in a school in Mozambique
06/27/2007 ”Vesi on keskeinen elementti, kun maaseudun oloja halutaan parantaa. Jos veteen ei kiinnitetä huomiota, kehityshanke jää ilmaan”, sanoo Amharan osavaltiossa toteutettavan vesihuolto- ja ympäristöohjelman johtava neuvonantaja Arto Suominen.
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From: Ulkoministeriö
Related: [Ethiopia] [Water/Sanitation]
Image: © Ulkoministeriö
Chagossian flag
06/26/2007 A leader of the Chagossian community - expelled from their Indian Ocean island home by Britain to allow development of a U.S. nuclear base - has attacked the UK government's decision to appeal against the third High Court ruling in their favour as “heartless and callous.”
+ Don't Appeal, UK Urged
+ Diega Garcia background
+ Islanders fight 'the final round'
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Related: [Mauritius] [United Kingdom] [United States]
Image: Chagossian flag
AIDS patients in Zambia
06/25/2007 Mahdollisesti syöpää aiheuttavan Viracept-lääkkeen poisvetäminen markkinoilta herättää huolta sambialaisten hiv-positiivisten keskuudessa. Potilaat pelkäävät, ettei Viracept ole ainoa viallinen lääke.
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From: OneWorld Africa
Related: [Zambia] [HIV/AIDS]
Image: AIDS patients in Zambia © United Nations Children's Fund
06/22/2007 A U.S.-based non-profit working to end world poverty has welcomed this week's agreement between world coffee giants Starbucks and Ethiopia for its potential to give farmers a fairer share of the profits enjoyed worldwide by Ethiopian coffee.
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From: Oxfam America
Related: [Ethiopia]
06/21/2007 Contamination of the AIDS drug, Viracept, has created panic among HIV-positive Zambians on antiretroviral therapy, who fear other AIDS drugs may not be safe.
Roche, the Swiss company that manufactures the drug, announced that some batches of Viracept had been accidentally contaminated with mesylate (methane sulfonic acid ethylester), prompting a recall of the product from European Union markets
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Related: [Africa] [Zambia]
06/21/2007 The Ethiopian Government and Starbucks have signed an agreement that ends a clash over the licensing and promotion of three top Ethiopian coffees and threatened the carefully crafted ethical image of the world's biggest coffee chain.
+ Win-win Outcome for Ethiopian Coffee Farmers and Starbucks
* From Social Funds
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Related: [Ethiopia]
Chuqulisa: 'It is during acute droughts that we enter into conflict with other clans.'
06/20/2007 "Drought is serious now... disease spreads; children fall ill, people can’t be well-nourished; living becomes expensive; the price of animals falls. There is nothing good about desertification". Chuqulisa tells her story.
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From: Panos London
Related: [Ethiopia]
Image: Chuqulisa: 'It is during acute droughts that we enter into conflict with other clans.'
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06/20/2007 Presidentti Robert Mugaben maareformi ei tuonut muutosta maatyöläisten asemaan. Ihmisoikeusaktivistien mukaan halveksitut maatyöläiset joutuvat yhä tekemään töitä kurjissa oloissa orjapalkalla, mikä on johtanut tuhansien työläisten kuolemaan.
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From: OneWorld Africa
Related: [Zimbabwe] [Labor] [Human Rights]
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Zimbabwe
06/19/2007 Slave wages and the deaths of about 10,000 Zimbabwean farmworkers as a consequence of the government's land-redistribution policy are some of the issues highlighted by rights groups in a recent report published on the plight of the country's one million farmworkers.
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Related: [Zimbabwe] [Africa] [Human Rights]
Image: Zimbabwe © Ontibile Kababongwe
06/19/2007 Keväällä puhjennut vakava koleraepidemia on vaatinut jo lähes 2000 uhria Pohjois-Somaliassa. Tauti koettelee pahiten Buraon, Hargeisan ja Boraman alueita, missä köyhät sairaalat ovat täyttyneet potilaista. Kansainvälinen solidaarisuussäätiö ohjaa 16 000 euroa humanitaariseen apuun alueiden auttamiseksi.
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From: Solidaarisuus
Related: [Somalia] [Health]
06/18/2007 While the world's eyes were focused on violence between warlords, Ethiopians and Islamists in Somalia, the vice-president of a neighbouring Somali country visited the UK almost unnoticed.
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From: Progressio
Related: [Somalia] [United Kingdom]
06/15/2007 More than 100 members of Women of Zimbabwe Arise were arrested this week after a peaceful demonstration to launch the People’s Charter, which includes demands for racial and political tolerance, the repeal of unjust laws, and equal access to land, education, and housing.
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From: Feminist Majority Foundation
Related: [Zimbabwe]
06/13/2007 Ethiopia's High Court has convicted four editors and three publishers of now-defunct weeklies of anti-state charges linked to their coverage of the government’s handling of disputed parliamentary elections in 2005, according to local journalists.
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Related: [Ethiopia]
06/12/2007 Etiopian korkein oikeus on tuominnut neljä toimittajaa ja kolme kustantajaa hallituksen vastaisesta toiminnasta. Osaa heistä odottaa jopa kuolemantuomio. Toimittajien turvallisuutta seuraavan CPJ-komitean mukaan lehdistönvapaus on viime vuosina huonontunut eniten juuri Etiopiassa.
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From: OneWorld Africa
Related: [Ethiopia] [Freedom of Expression]
Image: © Canadian Journalists for Free Expression / International Freedom of Expression Exchange Clearing House
06/12/2007 Although seizing this fragile opportunity for peace will require international troops on the ground, greater outreach by Somalia's government, and a constructive role from neighboring countries, a top UN official said Monday that "this is the best opportunity for peace that Somalia has had the past 16 years."
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From: United Nations
Related: [Somalia]
Millions still depend on food aid in Zimbabwe
06/07/2007 Zimbabwen yhä syventynyt poliittinen ja taloudellinen kriisi on saanut kansalaiset äänestämään jaloillaan. Sadattuhannet ihmiset pakenevat maan rajojen yli paremman elämän toivossa. Kansainvälinen siirtolaisuusjärjestö IOM yrittää kuitenkin taivutella ihmisiä jäämään ja maasta jo muuttaneita palaamaan kotiin.
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From: Suomen IPS
Related: [Zimbabwe] [Refugees]
Image: Millions still depend on food aid in Zimbabwe © IRIN
06/05/2007 The trial of Gift Phiri, the chief reporter of 'The Zimbabwean' who is facing charges of practicing journalism without accreditation, has now been set for 9 July 2007.
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Related: [Africa] [Zimbabwe]
Soldati del Lord Resistance Army - da Warnews
06/05/2007 Pelko ugandalaista Herran vastarinta-armeijaa (LRA) kohtaan tyhjentää kokonaisia kyliä Etelä-Sudanissa. Pahamaineinen liike on syyllistynyt siviilien joukkomurhiin ja lapsien kidnappaamisiin sotilaiksi rajan molemmin puolin. Ugandan hallitus ja LRA-liike ovat neuvotelleet rauhasta viime heinäkuusta lähtien.
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From: OneWorld Africa
Related: [Uganda] [Conflict]
Image: Soldati del Lord Resistance Army - da Warnews
An emotional Ugandan man  released from rebel captivity
06/05/2007 Southern Sudanese military and official sources say the threat from the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels has eased in eastern Equatoria, but widespread fear remains, whole villages are abandoned and a key road from Uganda to the Southern Sudan capital Juba is still patrolled by Sudanese and Ugandan troops.
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Related: [Uganda] [Sudan] [Africa]
Image: An emotional Ugandan man released from rebel captivity
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