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SOUTHERN EASTERN AFRICA REGIONAL ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING BODY FEATURE - ESAAMLG
BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg
THE FORTEEN countries of the Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG) have their AML/CFT work cut out. Under-funded, lacking resources, short of political will and working in a region that leaks money like a sieve…it is a demanding context for the group’s daunting tasks.…
SOUTH AFRICAN NURSING BRITAIN RECRUITMENT HIT
BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg
ONGOING recruitment of South African nurses to the UK is pushing South Africa’s already hard pressed public health system close to the brink of collapse and putting patient care at risk, the country’s lead nursing union and health experts have warned.…
WHO AIDS DECREASE - AFRICA, CARIBBEAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LATEST World Health Organisation (WHO) figures on HIV/AIDS indicate some heavily afflicted countries are seeing infection rates fall. Kenya and Zimbabwe are among those with declining infections: amongst all adults in Kenya, from 10% in the late 1990s to 7% in 2003; and among pregnant women in Zimbabwe falling, from 26% in 2003 to 21% in 2004.…
GM FOOD SOUTHERN AFRICA FEATURE - MONSANTO SYNGENTA
BY STEVEN SWINDELLS in Johannesburg
DROUGHT-HIT and AIDS-ravaged southern Africa is faced with a looming humanitarian crisis with almost 12 million people in need of food aid. But genetically modified (GM) crops remain off the menu for most African governments who remain reluctant to allow their farmers to do business with GM giants Monsanto and Syngenta.…
AFRICA LAKE SHRINKAGE UNEP REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SATELLITE images of the shrinking Aral Sea in central Asia have long horrified environmentalists, but now similar creeping disasters are threatening the many fresh water and brackish lakes of Africa. These are illustrated by disturbing satellite images within an atlas produced by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).…
AFRICA LAKE SHRINKAGE UNEP REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SATELLITE images of the shrinking Aral Sea in central Asia have long horrified environmentalists, but now similar creeping disasters are threatening the many fresh water and brackish lakes of Africa. These are illustrated by disturbing satellite images within an atlas produced by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).…
ACP EU SUGAR REFORM MEETING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SUGAR exporting countries from the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of countries have agreed at a meeting in Kenya to continue “a relentless fight” against planned European Union sugar reforms.…
FAO TEA REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL tea production hit a new record high in 2004, growing 2% to reach an estimated 3.2 million tonnes, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has reported. The expansion was mainly due to increases in Turkey, China, Kenya, Malawi, Sri Lanka and Indonesia, offsetting declines in other major producing countries, notably India and Bangladesh.…
WTO ROUND LATEST
BY KEITH NUTHALL
TRADE and agriculture ministers meeting in Kenya to energise the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round have made progress on moving towards a system where tariffs are always expressed as percentages of the price of products. This would simplify the existing set-up where some duties are fixed prices, or valued per measurement unit.…
GM FOOD SOUTHERN AFRICA FEATURE - MONSANTO SYNGENTA
BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg
DROUGHT-HIT and AIDS-ravaged southern Africa is faced with a looming humanitarian crisis with almost 12 million people in need of food aid. But genetically modified (GM) crops remain off the menu for most African governments who remain reluctant to allow their farmers to do business with GM giants Monsanto and Syngenta.…