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<title>EIN News: Southern Africa Poverty News</title>
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<title>Zimbabwe battles cholera outbreak</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199711566</link>
<pubDate>21 Nov 2008 19:09 GMT</pubDate>
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...  300 people have died of cholera in Zimbabwe, the United Nations said Friday, as health  ...  spread to nine of the troubled southern African nation&#39;s 10 provinces. &quot;The ministry is battling  ...  into a worsening economic and humanitarian crisis. South Africa has said it will withhold economic aid  ...
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<title>Raila asks journalists to think beyond the borders</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199711125</link>
<pubDate>21 Nov 2008 19:09 GMT</pubDate>
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...  has rooted for Press freedom and criticised African regimes muzzling the media. Raila said it  ...  Journalists and the East Africa Journalists Association. &quot;Zimbabwe is an annoying case, especially when we  ...  news from Africa, focusing on coups, war, poverty and corruption. ...
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<title>Congo refugees suffer shooting, rape, looting</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199701099</link>
<pubDate>21 Nov 2008 17:59 GMT</pubDate>
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...  not yet decided who will contribute. Several African nations such as Senegal, Kenya and Angola could send extra troops, diplomats at the  ...  high risk of child deaths due to malnutrition, malaria, respiratory infections,&quot; UNICEF spokesman Jaya Murthy  ...
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<title>UN: Congo refugees suffer shooting, rape, looting</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199695963</link>
<pubDate>21 Nov 2008 17:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  not yet decided who will contribute. Several African nations such as Senegal, Kenya and Angola could send extra troops, diplomats at the  ...  high risk of child deaths due to malnutrition, malaria, respiratory infections,&quot; UNICEF spokesman Jaya Murthy  ...
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<title>Mugabe bid to stop visit by elder trio</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199680486</link>
<pubDate>21 Nov 2008 16:14 GMT</pubDate>
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...  of state elders are to fly to Zimbabwe this weekend despite statements from President Robert  ...  effect of expelling them on international opinion. South Africa said it would hold back nearly 300  ...
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<title>Zimbabwe battles mounting cholera crisis</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199679888</link>
<pubDate>21 Nov 2008 16:14 GMT</pubDate>
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...  in Washington via a satellite television link. Zimbabwe medical groups have slammed poor basic and  ...  health system, once among the best in Africa, has collapsed under the weight of the  ...  leaving 80 percent of the population in poverty and nearly half the country in need  ...
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<title>Namibia: Government aims to decrease dependence on imports</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199671301</link>
<pubDate>21 Nov 2008 15:34 GMT</pubDate>
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... Namibia: Government aims to decrease dependence on imports  ...  &quot;Agriculture plays a crucial role in alleviating poverty and ensuring food security in Namibia, both  ...  food requirements,&quot; he added. Mutorwa said the African Union and its member states have committed  ...
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<title>UN spokesman says thousands of new peacekeepers expected in Congo within weeks</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199668402</link>
<pubDate>21 Nov 2008 14:53 GMT</pubDate>
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...  not yet decided who will contribute. Several African nations such as Senegal, Kenya and Angola could send extra troops, diplomats at the  ...  high risk of child deaths due to malnutrition, malaria, respiratory infections,&quot; UNICEF spokesman Jaya Murthy  ...
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<title>The State of Rural Development in Namibia opinion</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199663111</link>
<pubDate>21 Nov 2008 14:34 GMT</pubDate>
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...  informal settlements and all the squalor and poverty that go with these point to something  ...  ball game in a good part of Africa. Here poverty is the main push factor  ...  job seekers. Are the rural areas in Namibia then in varying stages of neglect and  ...
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<title>Africans don&#39;t expect Obama to be a cure-all</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199661064</link>
<pubDate>21 Nov 2008 14:12 GMT</pubDate>
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... JOHANNESBURG, South Africa &amp;mdash; Two weeks after Africans danced for  ...  would be a different continent, and indeed Zimbabwe would be a different place,&quot; said Tendai  ...
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<title>Demonising the opposition</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199657683</link>
<pubDate>21 Nov 2008 14:07 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the battle for the support of South African voters heats up, the recriminations, accusations and  ...  with policy issues, in particular the creeping poverty in our country with the associated increased  ...  civil society and human rights institutions in South Africa regarding the dehumanising remarks being made by  ...
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<title>Lena Blomstrand - Nuclear Power is an Environmental Disaster</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199652511</link>
<pubDate>21 Nov 2008 13:27 GMT</pubDate>
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...  a long-standing relationship with liberation movements in southern Africa. As a section head at the Swedish  ...  such as Kwanza Sul and Viana in Angola, Solomon Mahlangu in Tanzania and Nyango in  ...
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<title>Leave Canada dry, roars Ally</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199651972</link>
<pubDate>21 Nov 2008 12:49 GMT</pubDate>
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...  has already begun. &quot;We finished strongly against South Africa last week so it will be a  ...  long home drought. So, will it be famine to feast? That might be too much  ...
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<title>Boomtowns have pirates to thank</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199650151</link>
<pubDate>21 Nov 2008 12:48 GMT</pubDate>
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...  that once were eroded by years of poverty and chaos are now bustling with restaurants,  ...  a better life. Meanwhile, the United Nations, African Union and Arab nations struggled to respond  ...  some slower vessels thousands of miles around southern Africa to avoid the perilous waters on the  ...
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<title>New Congo peacekeepers &#39;will arrive soon&#39;</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199647009</link>
<pubDate>21 Nov 2008 12:11 GMT</pubDate>
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...  not yet decided who will contribute. Several African nations such as Senegal, Kenya and Angola could send extra troops, diplomats at the  ...  high risk of child deaths due to malnutrition, malaria, respiratory infections, a UNICEF spokesman said.  ...
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