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Environment

ZIMBABWE: Surviving the land invasions

25/08/2006 ANA 0

Harare, 24 August, 2006— After the initial chaos of Zimbabwe’s farm invasions, a tenuous truce based on a survival philosophy of negotiations, barter and political alliances has left about 600 white farmers on their land. […]

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Environment

ZAMBIA: Scepticism about fortified maizemeal

25/08/2006 ANA 0

Lusaka, 23 August, 2006— The planned fortification of Zambia’s staple food, maizemeal, to combat high levels of malnutrition is meeting with public resistance. About 50 percent of children aged under five and a third of […]

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World

AFGHANISTAN: Battle against poppy cultivation deepens

24/08/2006 ANA 0

Kabul, 24 August, 2006— Widespread corruption, a growing Taliban-led insurgency in the south, and a lack of proper alternative livelihoods for farmers, are causing a continued rise in poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, officials warn. “Undoubtedly […]

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Africa

DRC: Guns silenced with a ceasefire

23/08/2006 ANA 0

Kinshasa, 23 August, 2006— Bodies are still lying in the streets of Kinshasa and pillaging continues in some neighbourhoods but a ceasefire reached late on Tuesday between President Joseph Kabila and Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba seems […]

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