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Ephraim Nsingo
HARARE, Jan 17 (IPS) – Over 75 percent of the people in crisis-riddled Zimbabwe are living in desperate poverty, with children bearing the brunt. And with rival parties still wrangling over implementation of a power-sharing agreement signed four months ago, things are likely to get worse before [...]

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Charles Arthur*
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jan 14 (IPS) – Haiti’s peasant farmers are organising and taking action to try and bring an end to the country’s dependence on food imports, and to avert the prospect of looming famine.
In recent months, meetings and demonstrations held by peasant farmer groups and supported by [...]

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Wambi Michael
JINJA (Uganda), Jan 16 (IPS) – Illegal trade and overfishing in Lake Victoria have led to fish scarcities in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Large quantities of illegally traded unprocessed fish, especially Nile perch and tilapia, may be finding their way to export markets in the European Union [...]

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Zahira Kharsany
JOHANNESBURG, Jan 15 (IPS) – A new UNICEF report reveals there is still much to be done to reduce infant and maternal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. Failure to improve care for pregnant women and newborns threatens to undermine progress on all health-related development goals.
”Newborn deaths account for [...]

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Sarah McGregor
ARUSHA (Tanzania), Jan 13 (IPS) – Omari Saidi heard bad news about the global financial crisis, but the 34-year-old Tanzanian taxi driver felt too far removed from the world market to worry.
Saidi, living on an income of 1,500 dollars a year, has never had a bank account, [...]

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Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 5 (IPS) – Brazil is not immune to the current global financial crisis, but there are many indications that it will remain largely safe from the recession shaking the world’s rich countries and that economic growth will stay at reasonable levels if [...]

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Zoltán Dujisin
BUDAPEST, Jan 9 (IPS) – As Russia suffers from the financial crisis and Ukraine heads towards bankruptcy, nobody can tell who is to blame for a spat that threatens to freeze Central Europe and the Balkans.
What has become a yearly dispute began in 2006 when Gazprom, Russia’s [...]

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Diego Cevallos
MEXICO CITY, Jan 7 (IPS) – Thousands of fishermen in Mexico have gone on strike over the last few days to protest the rise in the cost of diesel fuel which, they say, has reduced their profit margin to zero. But the industry’s problems, which have [...]

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Keya Acharya
BANGALORE, Jan 3 (IPS) – The term ‘getting Bangalored’ , or having jobs outsourced from the West to this international IT hub, looks set to acquire another connotation — this time of professionals being fired right here.
The Union of Information Technology Enabled Services (UNITES) Professionals, India anticipates [...]