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By Mark | December 12, 2012
The Extraordinary Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) was held in Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania from 7 – 8 December 2012.
Issues discussed include the DRC, Madagascar and Zimbabwe.
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By JoeyA | June 19, 2012
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JOHANNESBURG, 19 June 2012 (IRIN) – The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has halved food rations to refugees living in camps in at least four African countries citing a funding shortfall.
The cuts have already affected 16,000 refugees in Malawi’s Dzaleka camp who have been on half rations since March, while a further 120,000 refugees in Uganda began receiving half rations of cereals in May. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Sarah | April 24, 2012
Guardian, 23 April 2012
Five countries in southern Africa have joined forces to launch a research centre that will work on combating climate change in the region. South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Zambia and Namibia signed a declaration on Wednesday to base the initiative in the Namibian capital Windhoek.
The Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (Sasscal) is intended to support cross-border research and land management. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Sarah | January 31, 2012
Guardian, 30 January 2012
A high-profile race for the post of chairman of the African Union (AU) commission entered deadlock on Monday, splitting the organisation into anglophone and francophone blocs. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Tony | January 4, 2012
ACTSA’s director, Tony Dykes, considers what will be happening in southern Africa in 2012.
Parliamentary Elections are due to be held in Angola by the end of year. In Lesotho and the Seychelles elections for their National Assembly are due to take place and in the DRC following the disputed parliamentary and presidential elections of 2011 provincial elections are due on 25 February 2012. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Mark | December 7, 2011
SAPA, Mail and Guardian, 6 December
The world needs to move away from analysing and studying climate change to identifying practical adaptation actions, President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Sarah | November 18, 2011
The Guardian, 17 November 2011
Swaziland has failed to pay more than $10m (£6.3m) in grants to Aids orphans, the IMF says, despite the vast wealth enjoyed by its absolute monarch. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Sarah | September 29, 2011
IPS News, 26 September 2011
An interview with Tosi Mpanu-Mpanu, chair of the Africa Group of Negotiators for Climate Change.
During the Nov. 28 to Dec. 9 17th U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in Durban, South Africa, Tosi Mpanu-Mpanu will lead the negotiations on behalf of the African Group of Negotiators on Climate Change (AGN).
Mpanu-Mpanu is also director of the Clean Development Mechanism Designated National Authority of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Read the rest of this entry »
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By Sarah | September 29, 2011
IPS News, 27 September 2011
The implementation of a unified climate change policy across all of South Africa’s government departments will not be easy as the divisions currently work largely as separate entities, says Greenpeace Africa.
The South African government announced on Sep. 13 that it would beef up its climate policy “to ensure that all government departments responded well to the issue of climate change.” Read the rest of this entry »
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