Full Coverage: Southern Africa
March 2007
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03/30/2007
Vice Chancellors and other high level representatives of Universities in Afghanistan, China, India, Nepal and Pakistan, have come together with major regional and European organisations to launch the Himalayan University Consortium as an alliance for knowledge networking, policy advocacy, and for promoting the concept and practice of sustainable mountain development.
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03/27/2007
After years of inaction, leaders from 14 Southern African nations will hold crisis talks later this week to try to halt Zimbabwe's slide into "full-scale humanitarian, social, and political crisis."
Read moreFrom: allAfrica.com Related: [Zimbabwe] Image: South Africa's Thabo Mbeki (right) will attend. © United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
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03/23/2007
Maailman elintarvikeohjelma WFP on huolissaan heikentyvästä elintarviketilanteesta eteläisessä Afrikassa. Ruokapula uhkaa miljoonia ihmisiä.
Read moreFrom: Ulkoministeriö Related: [Emergency Relief] Image: grains of hope? © Greenpeace UK
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03/19/2007
Only months after a High Court ruling enabled Botswana Bushmen to return to land from which they had been evicted, the government has turned down their request for permission to install a pump at an existing borehole. A leader of the community is travelling to London this week to protest against the ban.
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03/15/2007
The country at the center of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic has long been derided for its reticence to deal assertively with the problem. But a new plan is being lauded as a significant turnabout.
Read moreFrom: allAfrica.com Related: [South Africa] Image: South Africa's new AIDS plan provides new hope for its children, grannies, and everyone in between. © Kristy Siegfried/IRIN
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03/14/2007
More...Related: [Africa] [South Asia] [Senegal] [Environmental Activism] [Health] [Human Rights] [War and Peace] Image: The Birds Eye View Film Festival in Partnership with Action Aid
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03/13/2007
La gira latinoamericana que el presidente George W. Bush emprendió esta semana puede trastocar la relación de fuerzas en la región, de modo particular en Sudamérica. El punto crucial es la visita a Brasil, donde el 8 y 9 de marzo Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva y Bush acordarán un vasto plan para la expansión de la producción de etanol
Read moreFrom: Agencia Latinoamericana de Información Related: [South America] [Economy] [Politics] [Geopolitics] Image: © Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep
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03/03/2007
“It was very strange. I’d never seen a play like this in my entire theatrical life. When I first read the play I said: “what is this? what is this?” I thought maybe there was some mistake, maybe I’ve been given all the same pages.” – South African actress Nomlhe Nkonyeni.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld UK Related: [South Africa] Image: Generations
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