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<title>Comesa to award Bingu </title>
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<dc:date>2010-09-02</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Common Market for East and Southern Africa (Comesa) will give an award to President Bingu wa Mutharika in Swaziland.The President on Monday flew to Swaziland to attend Comesa&rsquo;s 14th heads of state summit.
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Speaking on departure from Kamuzu International Airport, Mutharika said he was expected to receive an award as former Secretary General as gratitude for what he achieved during his reign...]]></description>
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<title>New network to tackle illegal fishing</title>
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<dc:date>2010-08-30</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[



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African coastal states have organized network to tackle illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing, confirms a report.&nbsp;




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According to the report representatives from African coastal states attend a workshop in the United Kingdom to learn more of the ways to deal with illegal and IUU fishing which damages fish stocks, the marine environment, food security and wider economic growth and development...]]></description>
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<title>COMESA-IOC workshop gives Seychelles support </title>
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<dc:date>2010-07-20</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Seychelles has the support of the region to legally fight pirates following the workshop held this week at Le Meridiens Barbarons.
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Seychelles has the support of regional partners to arrest, prosecute, detain, and transfer the Somali pirates as the law in Seychelles now recommends...]]></description>
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<title>Controversy over GMO maize import deepens</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-16</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Nairobi:&nbsp; The government says genetically modified (GMO) foods remain outlawed despite reports that a consignment of about 40,000 tonnes of South African maize produced through the technology was lying at Mombasa port.
"We are aware that we have about 11,000 tonnes of contentious maize at the Port of Mombasa, but until scientific results are obtained we may not confirm they are of GMO type...]]></description>
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<title>Mauritius sees economy growing 4.7-5.0% in 2010</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-14</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[London:&nbsp; Strong performance in the tourism and textile sectors will bolster the Mauritian economy to 4.7-5.0 percent growth in 2010, up from 3 percent the previous year, a top official said on Tuesday.
Dr Ramakrishna Sithanen, vice prime minister and minister of finance, said the economy of the Indian Ocean island was beginning to gain momentum following the global slowdown in 2009, with inflation creeping up to 3 percent by end of the year, from 2...]]></description>
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<title>Cold sea water to cool Mauritius</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-01</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Port Louis: The Mauritian government is joining the country's private sector in an exciting project to tap the undersea cold water to cool off operations by data centres on the island. Large resources are currently spent on electricity for cooling. 
Announcing the move, the Mauritian authorities said the project, which is an alternative to electrical cooling, could save data centre operators millions per annum in cooling costs...]]></description>
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<title>Lack of clarity on climate regime "not good for business" </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-19</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg:&nbsp; The Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) has acceded that the lack of clarity with regard to the international climate change regime was "not good for business".
"The future of the Kyoto Protocol is not clear, hence the future of the clean development mechanism is unclear," Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said in a speech, which was read at a conference by her climate change adviser Xolisa Ngwadla...]]></description>
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<title>Sugar factory output up 23pc </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-16</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Dar es Salaam:&nbsp; The Tanganyika Planting Company (TPC) raised sugar production to 78,000 tonnes in the 2008/09 season from 60,000 tonnes in 2007/08. It produced 49,650 tonnes in 200/01, says chief executive officer Robert Baissac. The factory aims at increasing output to 80,000 tonnes a season. &ldquo;After expanding the factory and plantations we are excepting to produce between 80,000 and 85,000 tonnes of sugar a year,&rdquo; he says...]]></description>
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<title>Mauritius eyes geothermal power, seaweeds </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-04</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Port Louis:&nbsp; The Council of Research of Mauritius is currently working on two major projects: the production of electricity from geothermal sources and the exploitation of se aweeds for commercial purposes.The Executive Director of the Council, Arjoon Suddhoo, told PANA here that the country was interested in exploiting other sources of power beyond solar and others...]]></description>
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<title>EU investment bank ups Mauritius sugar reform funds</title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-27</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Antananarivo:&nbsp;The European Investment Bank (EIB) on Tuesday announced a 15 million euro loan to Mauritius sugar producer Omnicane, as the country faces the end of preferential European Union prices.
Sugar firms on the Indian Ocean island have increasingly looked to diversify their products and cut costs after the EU announced a graduated 36 percent cut in its guaranteed price for African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) sugar...]]></description>
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<title>Tanzania:  Falling food prices cut inflation</title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-18</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Dar es Salaam:&nbsp; The year-on-year inflation rate fell to 10.9 per cent last month from 12.2 per cent the previous month because food prices eased, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has reported. Food carries a heavy weighting in the basket of goods that is used to calculate inflation. Year-on-year food prices fell to 11...]]></description>
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<title>Mauritius launches referendum on the way forward </title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-05</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Port Louis:&nbsp; The Mauritian government will, on Thursday, 18 February, launch a national referendum at which the people will express their views on how to make the country a "durable Island", PANA reported from the Mauritian capital, Port-Louis.Professor Fran&ccedil;ois Odendaal, facilitator for the project 'Mauritius for a durable Island', announced that the referendum would be opened to all shades of opinion and citizens -- women, men, fishermen, small and medium-sized companies, corporate sector, local authorities and the various ministries...]]></description>
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<title>Japanese seek to exploit Nacala Development Corridor</title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-04</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Maputo:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Japanese entrepreneurs are considering use of the Nacala Development Corridor in coming years to access coal from Moatize, extracted in the district of the same name in Tete province.A Japanese business delegation in Maputo to take part in a business seminar last weekend visited the Nacala Development Corredor, which includes the Nacala port in Nampula province...]]></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>Mauritius:  December inflation eases on food, drinks</title>
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<dc:date>2010-01-13</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Port Louis:&nbsp;&nbsp; A strong currency and competition among Mauritius's retailers in December saw food and drinks lead a marginal decline in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on the Indian Ocean island last month.&nbsp; Consumer prices in Mauritius fell by less than 0.1 percent in December on the previous month while the annual average inflation rate slowed to 2...]]></description>
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