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| Women carrying jerry cans of water in North Kivu, eastern DRC, where an outbreak of cholera is worsening |
KINSHASA, 20 May 2008 (IRIN) - An outbreak of cholera in North Kivu province, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has claimed more sufferers in the past two weeks, medical and humanitarian officials said.
The most severely affected areas are the health zones of Pinga and Mweso in the upper and forested Masisi North area. |
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| Goldmines in Tenkoto, in the south-east of Senegal. [April 2006] |
DAKAR, 18 April 2008 (IRIN) - Mali and Ghana are Africa’s second and third largest gold-producing countries, but with most of the income leaving the country they remain entrenched in poverty.
To counter this, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Oxfam America have launched a new mining code to put in place region-wide social, environmental and business practice standards across the gold-mining industry.
Gold is mined in a number of West African states, including Mali, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire. |
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| Stimulating the rural economy |
MAPUTO, 17 April 2008 (IRIN) - The sustainability of a three-year multimillion-dollar project to stimulate commercial agriculture in Mozambique will be tested when the government withdraws its financial backing in June 2008.
Mozambique's annual growth rate of more than seven percent in recent years has been feted as a southern Africa success story, but it has been achieved on the back of industry while more than two-thirds of the country's 21 million people reside in rural areas, scratching a living from subsistence farming. |
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| High food prices have prompted a rethink on aid strategies |
JOHANNESBURG, 16 April 2008 (IRIN) - High food prices have brought social unrest but they have also provided a "window of opportunity" to review global policies on the response to food insecurity, said a leading food aid analyst as experts and aid agencies began an unprecedented strategic re-think at a three-day meeting in Rome on 16 April.
Events in the past week have borne out the International Monetary Fund's warning that the consequences of a 48 percent hike in food prices since 2006 "will be terrible": the Haitian government fell for apparently having done little to stem week-long food riots. A string of protests, some violent, over food price rises have also hit several West African and Asian countries. |
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| African livestock farmers eye growing Asian beef market |
JOHANNESBURG, 15 April 2008 (IRIN) - African farmers, particularly those in southern Africa, can benefit from the global boom in the demand for meat says new research that suggests several options for ensuring that the "livestock revolution" does not pass them by.
More effective ways of controlling foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), direct exports to large retailers in the European Union (EU) and targeting the emerging meat market in Asia are some of the proposals suggested by a four-country study in Southern Africa to help beef up exports. |
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| A genocide prisoner faces a Gacaca court in Rwimbogo, 20 km east of Kigali |
KIGALI, 14 April 2008 (IRIN) - Brigitte Mukandoli was a schoolgirl when a group of militias manning a roadblock near her village of Bishenyi, close to the Rwandan capital, Kigali, seized her.
She was taken to a nearby village and raped by 10 men. One of the militia leaders asked her to make a choice: become a wife or be killed.
She became a wife. Later, she learnt that her family had all been killed. That was in 1994.
Now 32, Mukandoli is struggling to accept that it is possible to forgive her tormentors. |
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