Continental African Briefing Volume 2, No. 3

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Continental African Briefing Volume 2, No. 3

AFRICA IN BRIEF

Health

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TOO POOR TO ACCESS FREE AIDS DRUGS Twenty-one-year-old Nonhlanhla Zuma (not her real name) lies on a mattress on the stone kitchen floor. Her bony, almost childlike body, weakened by HIV, makes standing up a major effort...
Source: IRIN
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Human Rights

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2005 THE YEAR OF 'NO MORE EXCISIONS' For International Action Against Female Genital Mutilation, a German group active in Benin and other African countries, 2005 will be a year in which past successes in the fight against mutilation are celebrated – and efforts to eradicate it continue with renewed vigour...
Source: IPS 
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Analysis & Reports

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REPORT ON THE SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN SUDAN The festive season is traditionally a time of giving in Zambia, where the streets of the capital – Lusaka – are awash with people caught up in the buying frenzy that characterizes the end of the year. Accordingly, the city's street children are tracking the mood of consumers as carefully as any economist.
Source: SHRO Cairo - Branch
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Sustainable Development

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GREATER INVESTMENT IN AGRICULTURE ESSENTIAL TO ACHIEVE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS Greater investment in agriculture and rural development is essential to spur economic growth in developing countries and to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today on the 40th anniversary of its Investment Centre, established in 1964 in partnership with the World Bank to increase support t...
Source: FAO
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UP COMING EVENTS

Investing in African Mining Conference The Mining INDABA is Africa's most important mining event and the world's leading gathering of global policy makers and international finance...
Date: Feb 08, 2005
Organization: International Investment Conferences

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Digital Africa 05 The Summit will bring together governments, operators, carriers and heads of business responsible for ICT implementations and strategy in Africa...
Date: Feb 08, 2005
Organization: The World Summits Organisation

  BOOKS AND RESOURCES 

Business Ethics in Africa
Author: Deon Rossouw

Learning to Love Africa : My Journey from Africa to Harvard Business School and Back
Author: Monique Maddy

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