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9/5/2008
DEVELOPMENT
Donors And The Poor Agree Aid Agenda
By Francis Kokutse and IPS correspondents
Delegates from both developing and developed countries have adopted the Accra Agenda For Action (AAA) as a guide to improve the way aid is given and spent.
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9/4/2008
SOUTH AFRICA-VENEZUELA
Forging a ‘Strategic Alliance’
By Humberto Márquez
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki announced that their countries have a "strategic" relationship, before signing a framework cooperation agreement in Pretoria, which paves the way for future arrangements on technology transfer and concrete deals involving oil and food.
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ENVIRONMENT
EU Takes a Weak Step Against Logging
By David Cronin
The European Union has reached a new agreement aimed at preventing import of illegal timber from Africa, but environmental campaigners believe bolder action is needed to curb deforestation across the globe.
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DEVELOPMENT-CAMEROON
Microfinance Succeeding Despite Obstacles
By Tamfu Hanson
Projects like this cereal mill are threatened by bureaucratic bottlenecks. Credit: Tamfu Hanson/IPS Mrs Adjoumi Hamidou is the President. One of three surviving widows of Ali Hamidou, she heads Akoldiningnal, a collective that runs a multi-cereal mill at Gashiga village, 15 kilometres from the capital of Cameroon's North Province, Garoua.
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POLITICS-ANGOLA
Economy Weighing On Voters' Minds
By Louise Redvers
Women like this street vendor hope the elections will mean better economic opportunities. Credit: Louise Redvers/IPS Angola's economy may be booming on the back of high oil prices and strong diamond exports, but six years after a peace deal ended the 27-year civil war, unemployment stands at around 65 percent.
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9/3/2008
POLITICS-SOMALIA
U.S. Policy Likely to Bring Blowback
By Jim Lobe*
U.S. counter-terrorism policies and support for the Ethiopian-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in Somalia have helped create an increasingly desperate humanitarian and security situation in the East African nation, whose population has become increasingly radicalised and anti-U.S., according to a new report by a major U.S. human rights group.
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DEVELOPMENT
Nice, Fuzzy, Positive Language on Aid
By IPS correspondents
Ministers and senior government officials from around the world have reportedly agreed an action plan to make the system of aid more effective after days of hard negotiations that pitted some of the world’s poorest nations against donor giants.
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DEVELOPMENT-SWAZILAND
Don't Blame Donor Dependency
By James Hall
What happens to a nation whose people depend on the largesse of international donor agencies for their existence, once support is withdrawn?
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9/2/2008
DEVELOPMENT
Coming Together To Aid the Poor
By Miriam Mannak
Mary Chenery-Hess -- "We can't just talk about it, we must act." Credit: Miriam Mannak/IPS In what is turning out to be hard-fought negotiations between rich and poor nations, more than 1,000 government and civil society delegates are gathered in the Ghanaian capital to agree the best ways to deliver and administer aid.
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SIERRA LEONE
Building Peace
By Lansana Fofana
Patients in a Freetown hospital: civil society is demanding an end to conditionalities on aid needed to build badly-needed social infrastructure. Credit: Manoocher Degati/IRIN Sierra Leone has been a major recipient of foreign aid since the end of a devastating 11-year civil war in 2002. But government, donors and citizens are all questioning how effectively this aid is being used.
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