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• in Politics
  Unrest, High Prices Hamper Africa's Recovery
  Africa weathered the global economic crisis, but rising fuel and food prices could slow 2011 growth, a new report warns.
  by coalporter / on Jun 6, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “sub saharan africa”

 

• Are Indian Companies “Land Grabbing” in Africa?

  
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  As foreign companies and governments buy or lease land in countries across Africa, the debate continues as to whether this will encourage development or is simply land grabbing , which displaces local populations and threatens food security. The Hindus Addis Ababa correspondent Aman Sethi ( @Amannama ) has ...
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• Mauritania Through a Portuguese Artists Eyes

  
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  Portuguese artist Isabel Fiadeiro ( @Isabelfiadeiro ) lives in Nouakchott, Mauritania, where she paints and runs an art gallery . Fiadeiro also sketches from observation, filling her blog Sketching in Mauritania  with images of daily life in the West African nation. Global Voices spoke to Fiadeiro about her art ...
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• African Development Bank and Renewable Energy

  
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  Africa has huge renewable energy potential with some of the world’s largest concentration of alternative energy resources in the form of solar, wind, hydro, and energy. Overall, 17 countries in sub-Saharan Africa are in the top-33 countries worldwide with combined reserves of solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal ...
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• Harvest, Meet Market: How a New Fund Will Accelerate Agricultural Infrastructure in Africa

  
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  This week, with AfDB and the Government of Sweden, we launched a first-of-its-kind effort to encourage private sector investment in agricultural infrastructure projects to advance food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. Read more >>
  2 weeks ago

• Recipes from Europa Island

  
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  I am often asked why I leave these little places on my list, and I hope this weeks entry will answer that question. Because I have to admit, I have the most fun doing recipes from tiny, uninhabited places in the middle of nowhere. Thats where all the best stories come from. Europa Island is one of those ...
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• IMF Assessment For South Africa: ‘Subdued And Likely To Remain So’

  
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  … African growth will not offset continued weak global demand and the domestic factors that restrain this country’s growth. South Africa’s outlook is subdued—and likely to remain so. In 2010-11, real GDP growth averaged 3.3 percent, falling to 2.5 percent in 2012. Meanwhile, unemployment is at 25 percent.David ...
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• US Invitation to Sudanese Official Draws Wide Condemnation

  
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  The United States government faced a wave of criticism when news surfaced about an official invitation it has extended to a senior delegation of the Sudanese government, particularly including Nafie Ali Nafie, Sudans ruling party controversial strongman and Presidential adviser to President Omar Hasan al-Bashir. In ...
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• Remembering Dennis Kimambo

  
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  Rising Voices note: This tribute post was written by Janet Feldman, upon learning about the death of Dennis Kimambo of the Rising Voices grantee project REPACTED on April 29, 2013. At the time of publication, the circumstances surrounding his death are still being investigated. When I first heard the news that ...
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• The Team Tanzania TV Drama Series

  
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  The Team Tanzania is a TV drama series in about: [...] Ms. Wito, a dynamic civics teacher, who turns the world of 3 teenagers upside down when she challenges them with controversial questions like “Who are you”? The three 16-year olds, who have known each other all their lives. On the edge of adulthood, they ...
  2 weeks ago

• Italy: Congolese Female Minister joins Italian Cabinet

  
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  [All quotations are translated from the original French articles, except the Twitter quotes, which were originally Italian] Two months after the February 2013 Italian general election, Prime Minister Enrico Letta , selected by the President Giorgio Napolitano to create a consensus government, revealed the members ...
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• Dar Sketches: Art for Sustainable Development

  
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  Dar Sketches is part of the Street Level project in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania initiated by artist and illustrator Sarah Markes: It is a celebration of the cultural and architectural heritage of Dar es Salaam as well as an effort to raise awareness of the threats to this heritage posed by rapid and unplanned urban ...
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• The Voice of Africa From All Over the World

  
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  Africa on the Blog is a blog by people of African heritage: The big deal for us here is that we as Africans are telling our stories in our own words as well as talking about issues that affect us. Written by Ndesanjo Macha · comments (0) Share: Donate · facebook · twitter · reddit ...
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• Africa: economy

  
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  African Arguments African Development Bank African economic outlook Africa development indicators 2008-2009 Kenya SciDevNet Sub-Saharan Africa (CSM) Africa Monitor , a weekly look at business, investment, and development trends. World Economic Forum on Africa 2011 2010 Annual ...
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• Catching Mosquitoes, not Fish: Returning Bed Nets to their Proper Use in the DRC

  
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  It is 1 p.m. in the village of Kavimvira. The sun is high over Lake Tanganyika, at the foot of the Mitumba Mountain, in scenic South Kivu
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• Recipes from Ethiopia

  
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  Not long after we met, Martin and I went out to eat at an Ethiopian restaurant in my old San Jose neighborhood. Im not going to name names, because I dont have nice things to say and that was 15 years ago … so for all I know things have changed there. I dont want to give the place a bad rap based on a 15 year old ...
  3 weeks ago

• ONLINE MAPPING SYSTEM HELPS FIGHT MALARIA BY TRACKING MOSQUITO RESISTANCE TO INSECTICIDES USED TO PREVENT MALARIA.

  
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  By Dickens Wasonga, The first online mapping tool to track insecticide resistance in mosquitoes that cause malaria has been launched . The interactive website, called IR Mapper (www.irmapper.com), identifies locations in more than 50 malaria-endemic countries where mosquitoes have developed resistance to the ...
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• Mapping Tool to Track Insecticide-Resistant Mosquitoes

  
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  Cameroonian blogger Edouard Tamba posted on twitter about the first online mapping tool to tool to track insecticide resistance in mosquitoes that cause malaria : IR Mapper . Interactive map that consolidates reports of insecticide resistance in malaria vectors onto filterable maps via irmapper.com ...
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• African developers among global awards semi-finalists

  
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  Ericsson has announced the semi-finalists for the annual Ericsson Application Awards with TeamKenya from Kenya, Team Trokxi and Team Nimdee Mobile from Ghana among the semi-finalists. TeamKenya and Trokxi are nominated in the student category and Nimdee mobile is nominated in the company category. Ericsson has ...
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• Women in Africa are “Leaning In”

  
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  With the recent launch of Sheryl Sandberg’s book, Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, discussion of the value of women in the workforce has blossomed. It’s clear women make great entrepreneurs—something the women of Africa have known for centuries but is often overlooked. Sandberg encourages women to realize ...
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• What Do Mozambiques Artists Need?

  
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  April 2013′s “Open Terrace” will focus on Artists and ‘Houses of Culture’ [pt] from the Northern province of Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. The initiative takes place every month, bringing together people from diverse backgrounds to debate public issues. On December 2012, Global Voices reported on an Open ...
  4 weeks ago

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