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WWF: Statement by the World Wide Fund for Nature, conservation organisation, on vulture conservation in Limpopo (16/05/2013)

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The Endangered Wildlife Trust’s Wildlife and Energy Programme (EWT-WEP), in partnership with Eskom Limpopo Operating Unit, the EWT’s Birds of Prey Programme (EWT-BoPP) and the Vulture...

Upper Nile Refugee Crisis: Avoiding past mistakes in the year to come (April 2013)

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Starting in November 2011, thousands of refugees fleeing aerial bombardments and food shortages in Blue Nile, Sudan, arrived in Maban County, in Upper Nile state, South Sudan. The international...

Very little known about SA’s domestic food consumption habits – study

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A newly published scoping study, initiated and funded by the Water Research Commission (WRC), has found that very little is known about domestic food consumption habits, which is further hampering...

WRC: Statement by the Water Research Commission, water-based research hub, study reveals South Africa's insufficient knowldge on hunger and nutritional issues (05/04/2013)

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Hunger and nutritional issues are recognised as a major hurdle in the development of South African society. Yet, while millions of South Africans are suffering the effects of hunger and...

Ethiopia’s hydropower futures: Walking the thin line between energy independence, environmental degradation and conflict

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Energy independence has become a recurring, yet contested, theme in African politics; especially in East Africa where upwards of 90% of the population has no access to electricity.(2) Consequently,...

Africa’s green revolution: Experiences from India and the use of genetically modified organisms

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There has been a renewed effort by the international community to transform Africa’s agricultural practices. This campaign comes amid growing concern over widespread hunger and poverty throughout...

Ivory Coast: Christine Lagarde: Address by the International Monetary chief, during the diplomatic visit to Ivory Coast, Abidjan (07/01/2013)

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Let me first of all convey to each and every one of you my best wishes for a happy New Year. Through you, the representatives of the people, I extend my wishes to the entire Ivoirien population.

Securing Sudan and South Sudan’s economic and political futures: The real value of oil

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

On 9 July 2011, the world’s newest nation was born. The Republic of Sudan had been in conflict for the majority of its independence since 1956. South Sudan gained its autonomy from the North...

Daily podcast – October 25, 2012.

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According to emails revealed this week, South African millionaire businessperson and one-time anti-apartheid hero Cyril Ramaphosa urged ministers to crack down on the violent platinum miners'...

WB: Statement by the World Bank, on removing barriers to Africa's food trade (24/10/2012)

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A new World Bank report says that Africa’s farmers can potentially grow enough food to feed the continent and avert future food crises if countries remove cross-border restrictions on the food...

Zimbabwe

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Capital city: Harare
Languages: English (official); Shona, Ndebele, numerous...

Daily podcast – September 11, 2012.

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The World Food Programme (or WFP) is seeking $30-million to feed more than one-million people in Malawi facing severe shortages. This is a result of a disastrous fight that the former President of...

Niger

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Niger

Capital city: Niamey
Languages: French (official); Hausa, Djerma...

ANC: Statement by Kgalema Motlanthe: African National Congress deputy president, on climate change and the Millennium Developmental Goals (10/12/2011)

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The discord within the climate change negotiations is a microcosm of the broader challenges facing the multilateral system of global governance. Understanding that the stakes are at an all...

SA: Motlanthe: Address by the Deputy President, at the UN convention to combat desertification, Durban (06/12/2011)

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Thank you for giving me the opportunity to make a contribution to the discussions on climate change and its co-attended effects on desertification, land degradation and drought (DLDD).

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