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<title>Madagascar: Struggling to reach cyclone-hit villages</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-16</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg: Tropical storm Hubert battered Madagascar on 10 March, cutting off entire communities in the southeast from emergency aid. A limited amount of relief - mainly food items - has been flown in because of damage to infrastructure, and aid agencies are trying to reach people in need of assistance via the river systems...]]></description>
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<title>In Madagascar, IFAD-supported training provides rural youth a future in business</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-15</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[One year on after the political crisis erupted in Madagascar, a  project funded by International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)  is working with small businesses to provide employment opportunities  for young people in poor rural communities in the Indian Ocean country.
In addition to recent social and political turmoil, Madagascar  has struggled with natural disasters, a growing population and an  arduous food insecurity situation...]]></description>
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<title>Duke's secret in the forest</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-15</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Tucked away in Duke Forest is the largest and most diverse collection of  lemurs outside their native Madagascar. The Duke Lemur Center  is home to 213 of the prosimian primates. There is the aye-aye, the  big-eared silly-looking creature with a bushy tail. There is also the  ring-tailed lemur, perhaps the most recognizable, which raises its  grey-and-black-striped tail in the air as it walks through grass...]]></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>Textile industry unravels </title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-25</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Antananarivo:&nbsp; Tensions between street traders and the city authorities in Madagascar's capital, Antananarivo, are mounting as hundreds of recently unemployed textile industry workers compete with established informal traders; textile factories have been closing since the country was suspended from a preferential trade agreement with the US...]]></description>
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<title>Can cassava become Africa's next cash crop?</title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-18</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Nairobi:&nbsp; For ages, thousands of farmers in Eastern and Southern Africa have eked out a living tending cassava farms, but with nothing much to show for it.&nbsp; They have had to grapple with losses occasioned by regular outbreaks of brown streak disease and cassava mosaic that are spread by white flies, worsening acute food shortages in the region's most severely affected zones...]]></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>Madagascar:  What will you do when the trees are gone?</title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-04</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Antananarivo:&nbsp; Madagascar's transitional government is allowing the export of illegally harvested precious hardwoods as a source of revenue to keep itself afloat. Conservationists say the cost is incalculable, and the huge Indian Ocean Island stands to lose its status as one of the world's biological hotspots...]]></description>
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<title>Mauritius hunts investors for Mozambique land deal</title>
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<dc:date>2010-01-29</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Port Louis:&nbsp; Mauritius said on Wednesday it is seeking investors to buy into a plan to lease farmland in Mozambique to ease growing food security worries on the Indian Ocean island.
"The government of Mozambique is proposing to lease the government of Mauritius some 23,500 hectares of land," the financial secretary of Mauritius' finance ministry, Ali Mansoor, told reporters...]]></description>
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<title>SADC urges investors to build basic infrastructure</title>
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<dc:date>2010-01-25</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Luanda:&nbsp;&nbsp; The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is open to initiatives of investors from the private sector to build basic infrastructure such as transport corridors, projects for water and energy supply, information technology and communication and border conservation areas.
This call was launched Friday in Luanda by SADC assistant Executive Secretary Jo&atilde;o Caholo while addressing a dinner co-organized by the regional secretariat and ANIP to promote and attract investment to the southern Africa region...]]></description>
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<title>Zimbabwe faces mass starvation</title>
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<dc:date>2010-01-20</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Nairobi:&nbsp; Zimbabwe is facing massive food shortages again this year with crops already wilting in many parts of the country due to a prolonged dry spell.&nbsp; The United States funded Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWSNET), in its latest forecast predicts that as a result of the poor rainfall and the severe shortage of agriculture inputs, 2...]]></description>
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<title>Madagascar's astonishing range of biodiversity under threat</title>
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<dc:date>2010-01-13</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Madagascar, the fourth largest island on the planet, has a unique and rich level of biodiversity. Despite these rich resources in terms of plant and animal life decision makers have not had enough precise spatial information on what people and resources are vulnerable to climate change. Climate change is a real threat to many of Madagascar's biodiversity treasures, many of which cannot be found anywhere else in the world...]]></description>
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<title>A cyclone and no money on the horizon</title>
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<dc:date>2010-01-08</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Johnnesburg:&nbsp; A tropical cyclone will "probably" hit Madagascar on 14 January, but a funding shortfall means the enormous Indian Ocean island maybe more vulnerable than usual.
According to Madagascar's Meteorological office, "tropical cyclone Edzani is progressively intensifying in the Indian Ocean ...]]></description>
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<title>Even island states can make plans to improve food security</title>
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<dc:date>2009-12-02</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Port Louis:&nbsp;&nbsp; Eric Mangar deplores the fact that Mauritius, despite being a net food importer, has failed to learn its lessons from the food crisis. The island state is pursuing "business as usual" without taking steps to improve food production on the local front.&nbsp; Mangar is the manager of the Movement for Food Self-Sufficiency, which was set up as a non-governmental organisation (NGO) for agricultural development in 1981...]]></description>
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<title>Malawi: When disaster strikes</title>
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<dc:date>2009-10-30</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[A man desperately reaches for a river bank as flood water pushes him to a likely death in the Lingadzi river in Kasache village close to Lake Malawi. Four rescuers in bright orange life jackets throw him a line in a last frantic attempt to reach him, realising this may be the last opportunity of saving his life...]]></description>
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