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<title>SADC SMEs convention in Namibia</title>
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<dc:date>2010-07-16</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Windhoek - Business women from SADC member states involved in Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) will convene here for the SADC Women in Business Trade Fair and Investment Forum which takes place on the sidelines of the Summit of Heads of State and Government on 9 to 18 August 2010. &nbsp;According to the latest cabinet release, the trade fair will create a forum for the exchange of ideas, knowledge and experience for business expansion and networking...]]></description>
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<title>Zambia plans to boost DRC exports to $2 bln: minister</title>
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<dc:date>2010-07-15</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia plans to boost its exports to the Democratic Republic of Congo to more than $2 billion this year from $1.2 billion in 2009, taking advantage of the flexible trade terms, Trade Minister Felix Mutati said on Thursday.
&nbsp;
Mutati said exports to the DRC, Zambia's largest trading partner in the African trading bloc COMESA, had continued to increase because there were no restrictions on goods it could export to its neighbour...]]></description>
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<title>Rebels seize mines in Congo's resource war</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-24</dc:date>
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Kinshasa:&nbsp; Former rebel fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo have seized rich mineral mines in the eastern part of the country and are forcing civilians, including children, to work them, the Global Witness group reports.&nbsp; This has intensified a seemingly interminable 12-year-old war over the central African state's vast mineral resources, deemed the bloodiest conflict since World War II...]]></description>
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<title>SA oil companies to get piece of the action in Republic of Congo reserves</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-12</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg:&nbsp; South&nbsp;African oil companies will get a piece of the Republic of Congo&rsquo;s rich oil reserves. The president of Congo-Brazzaville, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, made this announcement in Pretoria last week. He also used the joint press conference with his South African counterpart, Jacob Zuma, to put in a plug for South African farmers to break soil in his country...]]></description>
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<title>Unscrupulous maize dealers worry ZNFU</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-05</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lusaka:&nbsp; The&nbsp;Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) has expressed worry at the huge number of unscrupulous maize traders who have invaded most parts of Mazabuka and established maize buying points in chiefs Hanjalika and Mwenda&rsquo;s areas.Southern Province ZNFU manager, Clement Phiri yesterday told Zambia News and Information Services (ZANIS) that the unscrupulous traders who were believed to have been sponsored by Lusaka-based millers had opened buying points in Hanzala, Ngwezi and Chikankata areas and were reportedly buying a 50 kilogramme bag of maize at K30,000...]]></description>
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<title>Zambia launches model farm as alternative to mining</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-24</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lusaka:&nbsp; Reuters reported that Zambia wants foreign and local investors to plough their resources in a new model farm meant to encourage economic diversification from copper and cobalt mining to agriculture.Official data showed that as of November 2009, mining accounted for almost 90% of exports from Zambia, Africa's top copper producer...]]></description>
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<title>SADC ministers approve report on free trade zone </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-03</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Kinshasa:&nbsp; The Council of Ministers of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), over the weekend in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, approved the report on the regional integration for the consolidation of the Free Trade Zone.&nbsp; Angola, DR Congo and Seychelles have not joined the convention...]]></description>
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<title>SADC Council of Ministers meeting</title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-26</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Luanda:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Angola will attend the meeting of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Council of Ministers in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), on Thursday and Friday.
Speaking to Angop&nbsp;(Wednesday) before leaving to attend the meeting in the neighbouring country, State Secretary for Industry Kiala Gabriel said the member States would discuss issues concerning regional economic integration, trade protocol, customs union and community visas...]]></description>
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<title>Congo DR poised to be Zambia's biggest export market – Mutati   </title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-26</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lusaka:&nbsp; The&nbsp;Democratic Republic of Congo is poised to be the biggest export market for Zambia, commerce minister Felix Mutati has said.&nbsp; Officiating at the launch of the country's first-ever export catalogue produced by Market Access Trade and Enabling Policies (MATEP) in Lusaka on Friday night, Mutati said Zambia had finally managed to penetrate the Congolese huge export market...]]></description>
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<title>IFC to set up microfinance institutions in Zambia</title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-10</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lusaka:&nbsp; International&nbsp;Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank group, will this year set up microfinance institutions in Zambia.Responding to a press query, IFC information officer Houtan Bassiri stated that many people in Africa had no access to microfinance prompting the organisation to set up lending institutions in several countries including Zambia...]]></description>
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<title>Rich world should pay Africa to preserve forests</title>
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<dc:date>2009-12-01</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Yaounde:&nbsp;&nbsp; The developed world should pay African countries to preserve their vast forests to help the fight against climate change, some of the continent's governments will argue at next month's summit in Copenhagen.
&nbsp;
The position of the group of equatorial African countries -- home to the world's second-largest rainforest after the Amazon -- underscores rifts between industrialised nations responsible for the bulk of greenhouse gas emissions and the developing world seeking compensation to keep development in check...]]></description>
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<title>Plans to boost latest SADC corridor </title>
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<dc:date>2009-11-17</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Windhoek:&nbsp; The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Namibia and Zambia recently held discussions on the Walvis Bay-Ndola-Lubumbashi Development (WBNL) Corridor, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, which would see the development of a transport forum between the three countries.All preceding meetings were aimed at reaching consensus on the terms of reference and a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the three future stakeholders...]]></description>
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<title>DR Congo says effects of climate change visible</title>
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<dc:date>2009-09-29</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Kinshasa:&nbsp; The effects of climate change are now visible in certain areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), especially the torrential rains, the prolonged drought season and the disappearance of certain species of animals, a UN agency official says.
Madou Aruna, a technical consultant with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), made the remarks in Bukavu, the headquarters of South Kivu province, the Congolese press reported on Sunday...]]></description>
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<title> REDD: North-South agreement for new emissions reduction mechanism </title>
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<dc:date>2009-09-25</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[New York:&nbsp; &nbsp;In an unprecedented display of cooperation between developed and developing countries on climate change, eighteen Heads of State gathered at UN headquarters in New York to publicly express their commitment and support for REDD&mdash;Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation in developing counties...]]></description>
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<title>New SADC president launches campaign against climate change</title>
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<dc:date>2009-09-08</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Kinshasa:&nbsp;&nbsp; The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) on Monday launched the regional campaign against climate change in Kinshasha, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
DRC President Joseph Kabila, who took over the SADC presidency, officially kicked off the environment drive at the opening of the 29th summit of the 15-nation bloc...]]></description>
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