"Western Markets Will Not Wipe Africa's Poverty"

Iran is way different than Iraq
The Bush administration is making the same mistakes with Iran that it made with Iraq. It makes allegations unsupported by facts, refuses to negotiate and threatens sanctions or military action, neither of which is feasible.

Africa: Uganda to hold vote on party ban
Uganda's government says it will hold a referendum asking voters if they want a fully-fledged multiparty system. President Yoweri Museveni banned political parties shortly after coming to power in 1986, saying they encourage ethnic and religious divisions.

Bush Administration AIDS Policies Continue to Fall Short
In the president's State of the Union address this year, he pledged again to fight the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic. Mr. Bush asked Congress to reauthorize the Ryan White CARE Act "to encourage prevention and provide care and treatment" for those infected with the disease. He also stated that "we must focus our efforts on fellow citizens with the highest rates of new cases: African-American men and women." But when his 2006 budget proposal was released two weeks later, a very different picture emerged.

Western Markets Will Not Wipe Africa's Poverty
MOSES Byaruhanga in The New Vision of February 11, argues that what Africa needs to spur her development is not aid, but trade, and that "the problem in Africa is that we produce what we do not consume and consume what we do not produce".

He further argues that Africa sells raw materials without value addition and buys finished products from the developed countries manufactured from those same materials she sold in raw form, thereby donating jobs to the western countries that manufacture those products.

Africa gets its MTV
but will the continent's musicians benefit?
JOHANNESBURG For as long as anyone can remember, it has taken a rare stroke of luck for an African recording artist to be heard outside Africa.

Mbeki urges Greek businessmen to invest in South Africa
Visiting South African President Thabo Mbeki urged Greek businessmen on Friday to invest in his country and praised the high level of relations between the two countries as a base of a closer economic cooperation.

Africa At UN: How to Make It Work for the People
THERE is probably no chance of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council resisting the expansion of that powerful organ. The pressure from the rest of the membership is so enormous it is now a matter of "when" rather than "if" the council will be expanded.

Processing, Marketing Will End Africa's Poverty
IFAD was, apparently, set up in 1978 as a partnership between the developing and developed nations with the specific mission to help "eradicate rural poverty and hunger".

Polio virus spreads in Ethiopia
A two-year-old girl has contracted polio in Ethiopia in another sign that the epidemic is spreading across Africa, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.

UN-led mass immunization drive across Africa
A mass immunization campaign against polio spearheaded by United Nations agencies and their partners started today for 100 million children in 22 countries in the first drive this year to stop the resurgence of the disease, as reports came in of a new case in Ethiopia.

UN Security Council Evaluates West Africa Border Problems
United Nations, Feb 25 (Prensa Latina) The United Nations Security Council will weigh up Friday the limited progress made to fight the sub regional and border problems in West Africa.

S. Africa maize price falls on good national crop
South African maize prices fell on Friday as traders digested news earlier in the week that the crop would be larger than expected, with little seen in the future to boost prices.

Congo River Hydropower Plan Gains Momentum
Plans to use the Congo River to generate enough electricity to power Africa's industrialization are being drawn up by one of Africa's biggest energy companies, a high level meeting of business and international officials was told Thursday at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Governing Council meeting. The plan was announced by Reuel Khoza, chairman of the South African power company Eskom Holdings.