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February 2007

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02/28/2007 A leading development charity says it is delivering relief aid to more than 20,000 people living in one of the worst affected areas of Mozambique where floods have displaced 170,000 people and killed at least 45.
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From: ActionAid UK
Related: [Mozambique]
02/27/2007 Modernin elämän ja perinteen yhteentörmäys on tuonut hiv-tartunnat maasaiden maille. Olenana Pulein mukaan maasai-elämän on pakko muuttua, jotta taudin leviämistä voidaan ehkäistä. Muutosvastarinta on kuitenkin suurta.
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From: Ulkoministeriö
Related: [Kenya] [HIV/AIDS] [Culture]
02/25/2007 Armed clashes in Mogadisu have increased in frequency and intensity in February, leaving dozens of people dead and many wounded and driving civilians from their homes, the Red Cross has warned.
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From: International Committee of the Red Cross
Related: [Somalia]
Break the chains of debt
02/23/2007 A campaign is being organised to pressure British Chancellor Gordon Brown to use his international influence to stop "outrageous and immoral vulture funds", through which companies buy developing countries’ debt cheaply and then try to reclaim much more money when the country is in better shape.
* Stop the Debt Vultures
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From: Christian Aid, Jubilee Debt Campaign
Related: [United Kingdom] [Zambia]
Image: Break the chains of debt © Christian Aid
02/23/2007 An epidemic of acute watery diarrhoea has caused hundreds of deaths in Ethiopia.
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From: African Medical & Research Foundation
Related: [Ethiopia]
Labour and civil society activists arrested for protest in Harare
02/22/2007 Zimbabwen ammatillinen keskusjärjestö ZCTU on antanut lakkovaroituksen. Jos presidentti Robert Mugaben hallitus ei puutu liiton esiin nostamiin epäkohtiin tämän viikon loppuun mennessä, alkaa yleislakko. Polttavin kysymys ovat julkisen sektorin työntekijöiden palkat.
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From: Suomen Ammattiliittojen Solidaarisuuskeskus
Related: [Zimbabwe] [Southern Africa] [Labor] [Politics] [Civil Society]
Image: Labour and civil society activists arrested for protest in Harare © Kubatana
Zimbabwean women marching in Harare with red roses in hand.
02/22/2007 Could Zimbabwe be on the brink of a societal breakdown? Doctors and nurses have been on strike for more than a month, and as a teacher strike looms, police violently broke up a political rally Monday.
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From: OneWorld US
Related: [Zimbabwe] [Education] [Poverty] [Health] [Governance]
Image: Zimbabwean women marching in Harare with red roses in hand. © The Kubatana Trust of Zimbabwe
02/21/2007 As floods continue to displace thousands of people in central Mozambique, Save the Children UK has urged that cash grants should be considered rather than food aid for long term recovery. Paul Harvey comments.
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From: Overseas Development Institute
Related: [Mozambique]
02/19/2007 Sambiassa odotetaan kohtuullista maissisatoa, vaikka osa maasta kärsii tulvista. On kuitenkin epävarmaa, löytääkö ruoka tiensä kaikkein köyhimpien pöytiin.
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From: Kehitysyhteistyön palvelukeskus
Related: [Zambia] [Agriculture] [Food]
02/16/2007 Tasa-arvo on tärkeä ja ajankohtainen kysymys Tansaniassa. Haasteita riittää, mutta myös edistystä on saavutettu. Naisten osuus palkkatyössä on häviävän pieni, vain neljä prosenttia. Kiintiöt ovat tuoneet naisia kunnanvaltuustoihin ja parlamenttiin.
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From: Ulkoministeriö
Related: [Tanzania ] [Gender]
02/15/2007 The British Government’s bid to reverse a High Court ruling in favour of Indian Ocean islanders evicted from their homes 40 years ago to make way for a U.S. nuclear base is in its final day.
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From: OneWorld UK
Related: [United States] [United Kingdom] [Mauritius]
02/15/2007 A British court is expected today to deliver judgement involving a "vulture fund" - a company that buys up a country's debt at a bargain price and seeks to make a profit by pursuing it for an inflated figure through the courts.
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From: Oxfam Great Britain
Related: [Zambia]
02/15/2007 Somalia's people now need leadership and clarity from the international community to help them escape the tunnel of conflict, says Harun Hassan.
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From: openDemocracy
Related: [Somalia]
Life in Mozambique
02/09/2007 China is to cancel all Mozambican public debt to China incurred in 1980-2005, President Hu Jintao announced yesterday.
From: allAfrica.com
* Christian Aid backs Benn over new Chinese loans to Africa
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Related: [United Kingdom] [Mozambique] [China]
Image: Life in Mozambique © Nadia Bilbassy / United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
02/08/2007 Hyönteismyrkyllä käsitelty moskiittoverkko estää tehokkaasti malarian leviämistä. Verkon alle mahtuu nukkumaan jopa neljä lasta. Suomen World jakoi Kenian Meibekissä 1200 moskiittoverkkoa kaikille kummilapsille, aidsin takia orvoiksi jääneille lapsille sekä odottaville äideille.
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From: Suomen World Vision
Related: [Kenya] [Malaria]
LRA's Vincent Otti: 'If they reject, we can go back to war.'
02/07/2007 A premature end to the peace talks between the Uganda government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army appeared inevitable after the LRA's second-in-command said the rebel outfit was resolute in its rejection of Juba as a venue, a Kampala newspaper reported.
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From: allAfrica.com
Related: [Uganda]
Image: LRA's Vincent Otti: 'If they reject, we can go back to war.' © Euan Denholm/IRIN
02/07/2007 Kampalan sanomalehtien mukaan Ugandan hallituksen ja kapinallisen LRA:n (Lord's Resistance Army) rauhanneuvottelujen ennenaikainen päättyminen näytti väistämättömältä, kun LRA:n varakomentaja kieltäytyi neuvotteluista ehdotetussa paikassa.
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From: OneWorld UK
Related: [Uganda] [Conflict]
02/07/2007 "Somalimaassa tavallinen pulliainen ei saa lainaa pankista, vaikka mitä tekisi", kertoo Kansainvälisen solidaarisuussäätiön kenttäkoordinaattori Airi Toivonen. Säätiö on aktiivisesti luomassa maahan naisten mikroluottojärjestelmää. Myönnetyistä lainoista on maksettu takaisin noin 90 prosenttia.
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From: Solidaarisuus
Related: [Somalia] [Microcredit]
02/05/2007 Kuparin, kullan ja muiden kaivannaisten hinnat ovat viime vuosina moninkertaistuneet. Christian Aidin tuoreen tutkimuksen mukaan kaivosten isäntämaat eivät juurikaan hyödy niistä. Huolimatta siitä että yritykset käärivät kaivosteollisuudesta nyt valtavia voittoja, niiden maksamat verot ja tuotantomääriin sidotut rojaltit isäntämaiden hallitukselle ovat minimaalisia.
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From: Kehitysyhteistyön palvelukeskus
Related: [Zambia] [Economy] [Corporations]

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