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08/03/09--11:52: EGYPT: Bloggers Fly Into Security Trap (chan 1689811)

CAIRO, Jul 28 (IPS) - Cairo's airport has been unusually busy the past month as Egypt's security apparatus steps up its campaign against online political activists.


08/03/09--11:52: SOUTH AFRICA: Rights to the River (chan 1689811)

CAPE TOWN, Jul 28 (IPS) - Millions of litres of water are being unlawfully diverted into dams set up by South Africa's major industries, big mining companies and commercial farmers - with potentially devastating consequences for management of the resource.


08/03/09--11:52: HEALTH: Namibia Makes Strides in Paediatric HIV (chan 1689811)

WINDHOEK, Jul 28 (IPS) - While paediatric HIV remains a growing concern throughout Southern Africa, Namibian doctors have managed to put high numbers of babies on the life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment with the help of an early infant diagnosis (EID) programme based on dry blood sampling.


08/03/09--11:52: EGYPT: Disputes Rise Over Quotas for Women MPs (chan 1689811)

CAIRO, Jul 27 (IPS) - Disputes have arisen over new legislation setting a quota for female representatives in parliament. Spokesmen for the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) of President Hosni Mubarak describe the quotas as a milestone for women's rights, but some critics say the move threatens to create more problems than it solves.


08/03/09--11:52: Q&A: Agriculture Can Lead Poverty Reduction (chan 1689811)

ROME, Jul 28 (IPS) - Agriculture is vital to the economies of West and Central African countries, but poverty remains a reality in the region's rural areas.


08/03/09--11:52: Q&A: Brazil’s Lesson to the World: Invest in Family Farming (chan 1689811)

NOVA RUSSAS, Brazil, Jul 29 (IPS) - Kanayo F. Nwanze chose Brazil for his first official visit as the recently elected president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and was pleased to personally attest to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s commitment to family farming.


08/03/09--11:52: ENERGY: African Sun may Light up European Homes (chan 1689811)

BERLIN, Jul 29 (IPS) - Twenty German companies have drawn up ambitious plans to meet at least 15 percent of the European electricity demand by 2020 from solar thermal power plants installed in the North African Maghreb region.


08/03/09--11:52: ZIMBABWE: Neglect Sanitation at Your Peril (chan 1689811)

BULAWAYO, Jul 30 (IPS) - A functioning public toilet has become a rare sight in Bulawayo. Across this southern Zimbabwean city of about two million residents, public toilets have all but stopped functioning, the buildings now more useful as platforms for graffiti and campaign posters than as public conveniences where people answer the call of nature.


08/03/09--11:52: ZIMBABWE: New Constitution: Civil Society 'Taking Charge' (chan 1689811)

HARARE, Jul 28 (IPS) - Barely two weeks after the start of an official process to draw up a new constitution for Zimbabwe was delayed by supporters of Robert Mugabe, it faces another challenge: civil society organisation have launched a parallel constitutional project, saying the unity government's parliamentary-led procedure is undemocratic, defective and will produce a flawed document.


08/03/09--11:52: MEDIA: African Journalists Reject EU-sponsored Observatory (chan 1689811)

BERLIN, Jul 27 (IPS) - A project to create a Pan-African Media Observatory (PAMO), sponsored by the European Union in cooperation with the African union, has been rejected by numerous African journalist organisations.


08/03/09--11:52: RIGHTS-KENYA: Justice Waits While Debate Rages Over Tribunal (chan 1689811)

NAIROBI, Jul 27 (IPS) - Kenya's cabinet is expected to meet Monday to review a bill establishing how the masterminds of the country's post-election violence will be punished.


08/03/09--11:52: POLITICS: U.N. Calls for "Green Zone" in Strife-Torn Somalia (chan 1689811)

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 30 (IPS) - Somalia, a perpetually violence-prone country described as one of the world's failed states, may go the way of Iraq.


08/03/09--11:52: ECONOMY-ANGOLA: Entrepreneurial Spirit Born Out of Necessity (chan 1689811)

LUANDA, Jul 24 (IPS) - "Amiga, amiga," the women shout out, "Apples, pears, pineapples..." their cries fading into the beeps and growls of the traffic noise.


08/03/09--11:52: Q&A : Reality Fell Upon Us: Women's Voices Must Be Heard (chan 1689811)

KIGALI , Jul 29 (IPS) - Fifty-six percent of Rwanda's parliamentarians are women, a manifestation of the active role women have taken in rebuilding the country since the 1994 genocide.


08/03/09--11:52: EGYPT: Plenty of Sun, Nobody Catching any Rays (chan 1689811)

CAIRO, Jul 29 (IPS) - Egypt receives some of the highest annual solar radiation in the world, yet the desert country remains heavily dependent on fossil fuels.