Programmes to promote gender equality and counter poverty gain ground
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/ 18 February 2010
Haiti received special attention at the International Fund for Agricultural Development governing council meeting in Rome on Wednesday.
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/ 15 October 2008
The Green Revolution that jump-started Asia’s agricultural growth has not been mirrored in the African continent.
President Thabo Mbeki called on G8 countries on Friday to follow through on promises of support for Africa’s socio-economic rescue plan Nepad. ”The other G8 members have got to respond in the manner that Japan has,” Mbeki said at the end of a three-day development conference in Yokohama, Japan.
African governments are nervously confronting a mounting wave of often deadly social unrest caused by the soaring cost of food and fuel. Forty people died during price riots in Cameroon in February. There also have been deadly troubles in Côte d’Ivoire and Mauritania and other violent demonstrations in Senegal and Burkina Faso — where a nationwide strike against price rises is to start on Tuesday.