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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Boost Cross-Border Trade for Food Security
- Inter Press Service
Small-scale traders on either side of the Mwami Border Post between Zambia and Malawi are key to meeting local demands that larger importers do not.
KENYA: Herbal Contraceptives Under the Radar
- Inter Press Service
An arrow points the way from a busy street along a rough pathway; visitors clutch their bags more closely. The door is open: sachets are displayed on the table with labels indicating treatment for ulcers, diabetes, hypertension, fibroids. But not the contraceptive pill IPS is looking for.
INDIA: Trade Talks with EU Put Drug Manufacturers on Edge
- Inter Press Service
Their ongoing negotiations remain shrouded in secrecy, but there are already reports that India and the European Union (EU) will have a free-trade agreement ready by the end of August, and that they will be putting signatures to it before the end of 2010.
TRADE-NAMIBIA: Africa Might Ditch Asian Rice if Prices Increase
- Inter Press Service
Thailand and other major rice exporting countries are at risk of losing Africa as an important trading partner if they raise their rice prices. Half of the 10 million tons of rice exported by Thailand last year went to Africa. Nigeria, Benin, Cote d’Ivoire and South Africa were among the main buyers of rice in Africa.
HAITI: Gonaives Girds for Heavy Storm Season
- Inter Press Service
Gonaives, the third largest city in Haiti, is rushing to prepare for an expected highly active hurricane season. The city was flooded by three hurricanes in the past six years - Hannah and Ike in 2008, and Jeanne, which killed at least 2,500 people in 2004.
Developing More Top African Women Research Scientists
- Inter Press Service
In a tiny village near Kisumu city in Kenya, scientific researcher Mary Anyango Oyunga spends most of her time educating women about something they have always done — grow sweet potatoes.
MEXICO: Craftswomen Weave a Better Future Out of Recycled Garbage
- Inter Press Service
Women's laughter fills the rectangular room on the ground floor of a building that houses a school for 250 local children, on the southern edge of Mexico City's sprawling metropolitan area.
CHINA: New Technology Deals Blow to Writing Mandarin Characters
- Inter Press Service
Yu Daihai, a 23-year-old college graduate from Dandong city in northern Liaoning province, uses his computer and mobile phone everyday to communicate with his friends. But technology is having an unwanted side effect: Yu, like a growing number of young Chinese, is starting to forget how to write his native language.
POLITICS-INDIA: Kashmir Cauldron Boils Again
- Inter Press Service
The sight of armoured vehicles and soldiers in battle gear out in Kashmir’s streets in July is a grim warning of a storm gathering yet again over the restive valley.
Q&A: Clean Energy and Cultural Survival in Nicaragua
- Inter Press Service
For the past six years, French and U.S. engineers have been installing solar panels and wind turbines in the southeastern Nicaraguan town of Bluefields, promoting clean energy and development among the region's Rama indigenous peoples.
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