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NAMIBIA: Water in the Kambashu
- Inter Press Service
For Namibia's capital city, the goal of sustainable water and sanitation is a major challenge for the 21st century.
Brazilian Agriculture Can Help Combat Hunger and Inflation
- Inter Press Service
The current rise in agricultural prices, which now overshadows the increase seen in 2008, highlights the contribution that Brazil could make towards curbing the growing hunger and inflation that are threatening the world once again.
Businesses in Brazil Rediscover 'Route to the Indies'
- Inter Press Service
Companies from Brazil and India -- whose bilateral trade flow rose nearly threefold in the last three years -- are starting to diversify and complement their business dealings in order to strengthen the two emerging powers' economic presence in the world, in a kind of new two-way 'route to the Indies'.
WATER: Working Together on River Management
- Inter Press Service
Postwar Angola is keen to expand irrigation for much-needed development, Namibia is prioritising clean drinking water and sanitation, while Botswana wants to preserve the integrity of the world-renowned Okavango Delta for tourism.
Botswana Parliament's Speaker a Well-Loved Woman
- Inter Press Service
It would have been hard for a teenaged Margaret Nnananyana Nasha to imagine that she would grow up to become one of the most powerful figures in Botswana's government.
Security — Prime Focus at Central America Summit with Ban Ki-moon
- Inter Press Service
Central America's security problems will be front and centre at a summit meeting between United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and leaders of seven countries, to be held Mar. 16 in the Guatemalan capital.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Non-Tariff Trade Barriers Springing Up
- Inter Press Service
Despite regional initiatives that even include the eventual possibility of a ‘‘Cape- to-Cairo’’ free trade area, protectionist impulses have caused non-tariff barriers to spring up across Southern Africa.
U.S.: Tears and Anger after Wisconsin Passes Anti-Union Bill
- Inter Press Service
Emotions are running high at the State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin after Republican senators passed a revised version of a budget repair bill that will take away public workers' collective bargaining rights in an ad hoc session Wednesday night.
Ancient Buddhas Will Not Be Rebuilt — UNESCO
- Inter Press Service
Afghanistan's historic Bamiyan Buddhas, destroyed by the Taliban 10 years ago, will not be reconstructed despite claims the 1,500-year-old statues could be repaired, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) said Thursday.
INDIA: Court Challenges Dubious Environmental Impact Reports
- Inter Press Service
India’s Supreme Court has questioned clearances to industries on the basis of environment impact assessments (EIAs) carried out by private consultants in the pay of project proponents.
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