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ZAMBIA: A slow start to saving the trees

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Saturday, December 06, 2008

LUSAKA Wednesday, December 03, 2008 (IRIN) - Zambians are gradually turning to greener energy technologies to save trees after suffering years of...

SWAZILAND: ARV programme needs to double

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Saturday, December 06, 2008

MANZINI Wednesday, December 03, 2008 (IRIN) - The release of revised projections indicating that twice as many HIV-positive Swazis are in need of...

SOUTH AFRICA: Global Fund money gets stuck with health department

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Saturday, December 06, 2008

CAPE TOWN Wednesday, December 03, 2008 (IRIN) - South Africa's Department of Health has failed to channel US$3.9 million in donor money to 13...

BOTSWANA-ZIMBABWE: Botswana to close its Harare embassy

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Saturday, December 06, 2008

GABORONE Friday, December 05, 2008 (IRIN) - Botswana will close its embassy in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, within the next few weeks a senior...

SOMALIA: “Highest levels of malnutrition in the world”

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Saturday, December 06, 2008

NAIROBI Friday, December 05, 2008 (IRIN) - “Somalia has the highest levels of malnutrition in the world”, with up to 300,000 children acutely...

SUDAN: Civilian disarmament remains elusive as government rethinks process

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Saturday, December 06, 2008

JUBA Wednesday, December 03, 2008 (IRIN) - Efforts by Southern Sudanese states to forcefully collect arms from civilians have been poorly planned,...

SUDAN: IDPs in the cold as slum demolished

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Saturday, December 06, 2008

MANDELA Thursday, December 04, 2008 (IRIN) - Thousands of people in a slum 20km south of Khartoum are living in makeshift shelters made of sticks and...

ZIMBABWE: Conjuring up a state of emergency

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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

HARARE Tuesday, December 02, 2008 (IRIN) - There are growing suspicions that the looting by soldiers in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, may be an...

ETHIOPIA: Children at greatest risk among Afar’s drought-displaced

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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

EREBTI Tuesday, December 02, 2008 (IRIN) - Thousands of vulnerable civilians who left their homes in north-eastern Ethiopia in June because of...

TANZANIA: The downside of an economic boom

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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

IRINGA Tuesday, December 02, 2008 (IRIN) - For two months of the year, James Lusago can count on a steady income from working in the rice fields of...