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<title>AfDB: Gender equality and Millennium Development Goals</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-09</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Tunis:&nbsp; Gender equality is fundamental for achieving economic growth and poverty reduction in Africa. It is essential for reaching the Millennium Development Goals as well. Most African countries are signatories to international and regional commitments to gender equality promoting more equally allocated work, education, resources, and control...]]></description>
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<title>Nkwinti: Land reform plans changing </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-03</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Cape Town:&nbsp; A major rolling back of the land reform programme is being signalled by the Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform, Gugile Nkwinti.
Addressing a media conference in Parliament the minister, chairing a cluster of ministers from the economic sector, reiterated that the government has not enough money in the bank to complete the original programme of land reform that required 30% of land to be in black ownership by 2014...]]></description>
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<title>Sisal firm lauds new agriculture first initiative</title>
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<dc:date>2010-01-12</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Dar es Salaam:&nbsp; The management of Katani Sisal Company Limited, has lauded the latest government's initiative to revitalise the agricultural sector, saying it would help enhance the firm's operations.&nbsp;&nbsp; The firm believes that the introduction of Kilimo Kwanza, would help resolve bottlenecks inhibiting growth in the sector...]]></description>
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<title>The pattern of response to HIV/AIDS and climate change - a commentary </title>
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<dc:date>2009-12-06</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Almost three decades into the HIV/AIDS pandemic, there is still widespread stigma, denial and government inaction. There are reports of rising rates of infection in the Western industrialized nations and concerns about the possibility of explosive epidemics in the Asian block; yet sub-Saharan Africa, with less than 15 per cent of the world&rsquo;s population, remains at the epicentre of the epidemic, with over 70 per cent of the infections worldwide...]]></description>
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<title>Land reform programme unsustainable</title>
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<dc:date>2009-09-03</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg:&nbsp; South Africa's government has acquired thousands of farms to redress racially skewed land ownership, but more than half have failed, or are failing, Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti told parliament on 1 September.
The government intends redistributing 30 percent of agricultural land (24...]]></description>
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<title>Disease killing fish in Zambezi risks spreading to other parts of Africa, UN warns </title>
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<dc:date>2009-07-22</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[New York:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A deadly disease devastating fish stocks in Africa&rsquo;s Zambezi River basin and threatening the livelihoods and access to food of millions of rural people could soon reach other parts of the continent, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization&nbsp;warned today...]]></description>
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<title>Namibia:  Floods interrupted AIDS services </title>
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<dc:date>2009-07-09</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Windhoek:&nbsp; A UN assessment has revealed that flooding in northern Namibia during March severely disrupted HIV and AIDS treatment, care and prevention services. The floods, caused by heavy rains, affected more than 350,000 people in six regions with some of the highest HIV-prevalence rates in the country...]]></description>
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<title>HIV wipes out Namibia's gains in reducing child mortality</title>
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<dc:date>2009-04-11</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Windhoek:&nbsp; The HI virus is reversing strides Namibia has made in improving children&#39;s health. The country was well on its way to reducing child mortality, but over the past decade the pandemic has annulled previous gains. Experts believe HIV/Aids will delay Namibia&#39;s child health development by at least six years...]]></description>
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<title>Hogan urges regional Aids plan</title>
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<dc:date>2009-04-03</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Durban:&nbsp;&nbsp; Health Minister Barbara Hogan on Friday called for a regional plan to deal with the HIV pandemic and tuberculosis. Addressing more than 4&nbsp;000 delegates at the fourth South African Aids conference at Durban&#39;s Inkosi Albert Luthuli Convention Centre, Hogan said it was foolish to think that South Africa could scale up prevention and treatment in isolation from its neighbouring countries...]]></description>
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<title>HIV and high food prices</title>
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<dc:date>2009-04-02</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Leaders of the Group of Twenty (G-20) countries are gathering in London for a summit to identify steps that can help restore global economic growth.&nbsp; The current crisis in financial markets and the world economy strains both governments&#39; global development commitments and national resources...]]></description>
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<title>Migration calls for cross-border health policies</title>
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<dc:date>2009-04-01</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Maseru:&nbsp; The mountain kingdom of Lesotho faces a number of unique hurdles with regard to HIV and AIDS.&nbsp; The country is landlocked within South Africa, the epicentre of the pandemic, and because of limited job opportunities and high unemployment rates within Lesotho, many of its citizens work as migrant labourers in neighbouring South Africa...]]></description>
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<title>AgriSA speaks up for emerging farmers  </title>
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<dc:date>2009-03-26</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg:&nbsp; Farmers&#39;&#39; union AgriSA has blamed the government for failing land reform projects, and accused Agriculture and Land Affairs Minister Lulu Xingwana of avoiding taking responsibility for the failures by threatening land reform beneficiaries with the &quot;use it or lose it&quot; principle...]]></description>
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<title>Swaziland:  AIDS epidemic shows no sign of slowing </title>
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<dc:date>2009-03-03</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Mbabane:&nbsp; Swaziland&#39;s AIDS epidemic, already the most severe in the world, appears to have gained further ground with the latest government figures revealing an increase in the percentage of pregnant women infected with HIV.&nbsp;&nbsp; Of the nearly 2,000 women surveyed who attended antenatal clinics in all four of the country&#39;s regions, 42 percent tested HIV positive in 2008, up 3 percent from the last survey conducted in 2006...]]></description>
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<title>Namibia:  Farmers see own HIV efforts bear fruit</title>
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<dc:date>2008-12-02</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Windhoek:&nbsp;&nbsp;HIV/AIDS awareness among agricultural employers is picking up on cases among their employees, with an increasing number of farm owners providing voluntary counselling and testing to their work force, as well as enabling employees to receive antiretroviral medication. The Agricultural Employers Association credits the increase to its own efforts to set in motion an awareness programme as Government, through the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry, has allegedly failed to implement a relevant HIV/AIDS programme in the agricultural sector...]]></description>
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<title>Malawi population up by 2.8%</title>
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<dc:date>2008-11-11</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lilongwe:&nbsp; The population of Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, has shot up by 2.8 per cent, a senior government minister announced here Monday. Economic Planning and Development Minister Ken Lipenga said here while unveiling the results of the census held in May this year, that Malawi&#39;s population now stood at 13...]]></description>
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