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| If West Africa's governments were serious about stopping migration from their countries they would improve their economic policies, according to African experts |
DAKAR, 21 March 2008 (IRIN) - If West African governments are serious about reducing migration from their countries they must invest in improving living conditions and reducing inequality, according to sociologists, economists and other experts meeting in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, this week.
"As long as governments do not attack the longstanding and structural problems that make people leave, I think they are completely off-track,” Cheikh Omar Ba, a Senegalese sociologist with the Initiative for Rural and Agricultural Futures said.
Ba was among technical experts and government officials at a 17-19 March conference on migration and development in Africa. |
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| A grain market in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
ADDIS ABABA, 20 March 2008 (IRIN) - The Ethiopian government’s decision to remove some taxes on grains is unlikely to have an immediate impact on rising food prices in rural areas, where most of the consumers are actually producers, an economist said.
It may, however, ease the burden on the urban poor in several months’ time, if the government follows through on implementation.
"The fact that 85 percent of Ethiopians are living in rural areas means a reduction of value added tax and turnover tax will not have an impact on their lives," the Ethiopian economist, who declined to be named, said. |
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| Internally displaced persons prepare a meal at the Mathare police depot, Mathare, Nairobi |
NAIROBI, 19 March 2008 (IRIN) - Kenyan authorities failed in their responsibility to protect citizens when violence erupted after disputed presidential elections in December 2007, according to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
"The scale of the violence and destruction indicates the failure of the Kenyan State to protect its citizens’ right to life, security and property during these events," a report by an OHCHR fact-finding mission stated. |
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| Food when available is extremely expensive |
HARARE, 18 March 2008 (IRIN) - Extra cash in the pockets of civil servants ahead of the elections and a spiralling foreign exchange rate has pushed up the prices of basic foodstuffs and essential items by 300 percent in the last few days, said economists.
“There has been quite a spike [in prices] in the past week,” said John Robertson, an independent economist based in the capital, Harare. Retailers had hiked up prices because people’s spending power had increased ahead of the elections, he added. |
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| Conflict between armed groups in eastern DRC has caused civilians to suffer |
KINSHASA, 17 March 2008 (IRIN) - The deadline for Rwandan Hutu fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to voluntarily disarm has expired without guns being handed in, because Kinshasa lacks the capacity to resolve the problem, analysts said.
The 15 January ultimatum was issued to the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) by the DRC government. It was based on an accord reached in November 2007 in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, between Rwanda and the Kinshasa government. |
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| Access to clean drinking water can keep water-borne diseases at bay |
BRAZZAVILLE, 13 March 2008 (IRIN) - A rehabilitated water supply system in the town of Kinkala in the southeast of the Republic of Congo will provide clean drinking water to an estimated 10,000 residents of the area, whose infrastructure was damaged during the civil war between 1998 and 2003.
The water project, which was inaugurated on 12 March by the energy and hydraulics minister, Bruno Itoua, is an initiative of the Congolese government and the International Committee of the Red Cross. |
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