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2021-05-11 11:39:12 South Africa: Why Are the Impoverished Excluded From Inequality Debate?
‍[New Frame] South Africa's economic policies have been moving to the right, embracing big business and ignoring workers and jobless people. Why does no organised voice speak out against this?
There is something missing in South African politics and public debate today - a loud and organised voice campaigning against poverty and inequality.
This absence is particularly surprising at the moment. Of course, poverty and inequality here are not new. The disparities between huge wealth and grinding poverty have been a featu
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2021-05-11 11:36:05 Uganda: Museveni Tightens Grip On Power
‍[DW] Yoweri Museveni's less-than-stellar democratic and human rights record has caused increasing anger abroad. But allies in the West seem loath to upset a regime which has contributed toward stabilization in the region.
Yoweri Museveni, 76, is scheduled to be sworn in as Uganda's head of state for a sixth five-year term on Wednesday.
He is not expected to change the autocratic style he has developed over the last 35 years, nor the system of patronage and corruption which has been crucial to enabling his longe
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2021-05-11 00:00:24 Malawi: Chakwera Pressurised to Reinstate Former Labour Minister Kandodo
‍[Nyasa Times] There is trouble brewing in the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) following the firing of Ken Kandodo as Labour Minister for his involvement in the alleged mismanagement of Covid-19 funds.
Shortly after Chakwera gave his Labour Minister the boot, Malawi Congress Party elders in Kasungu took the issue as a war between Kasungu MCP and Lilongwe MCP.
We can exclusively reveal that MCP custodians in Kasungu sent an envoy to President Chakwera demanding the reinstatement of Kandodo as cabinet minister and to "stop tak
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2021-05-10 23:39:05 Namibia: I Lost More As First Lady - Geingos
‍[Namibian] FIRST lady Monica Geingos says there has been a decrease to her assets since she took office in 2015.
Six years ago president Hage Geingob and Geingos declared their assets at State House revealing that the first lady had between
N$45 and N$60 million in equity.
Geingos said this during an interview with The Namibian's online talk show called The Conversation on Friday.
"As a matter of fact there has been a significant decrease to my balance sheet," she said.
She was responding to talk that her m
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2021-05-10 22:39:05 Uganda: Govt to Construct Factory for School Pads
‍[Monitor] Education minister Janet Museveni has said government is considering setting up a factory to manufacture and supply sanitary towels to all schools as a means to support the girl-child through school.
She made the revelation during a presentation of the education sector under the seven-day series scheduled to mark the National Resistance Movement (NRM) manifesto week at State House Entebbe on Thursday.
The presentation was to highlight progress made by the NRM party in fulfilling pledges in the 2016-2021 te
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2021-05-10 22:12:06 Cameroon: Political Parties Reach 330 as Eleven Others Are Legalised
‍[East African] Cameroon has created 11 new political parties, bringing the total number of legalised political parties in the Central African country to 330.
Paul Atanga Nji, Cameroon minister for Territorial Administration, announced Wednesday that he has legalised the new political parties "which will enrich political debate and encourage freedom of expression" four years to major elections in the Central African country.
He said the new political parties will "henceforth contribute to the facilitation of a contradicto
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2021-05-10 22:03:05 South Africa's Carbon Emission Targets Not Nearly Ambitious Enough
‍[GroundUp] South Africa is the most carbon-intensive G20 economy with the highest coal reliance
To hear President Ramaphosa's 22 April address to the Virtual Leaders' Summit on Climate Change, you'd think South Africa were going "above and beyond" when it comes to addressing the climate crisis. Not so.
SA's long-awaited draft updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) closed for written public comment on 30 April. The NDC is our country's pledge to take action to meet the goals of the historic Paris Climate Agr
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2021-05-10 21:00:31 Zimbabwe: Perjury Trial for Ken Sharpe's Henchmen Resumes
‍[263Chat] The trial of controversial businessman Ken Sharpe's henchmen Michael John Van Blerk and suspended Harare City Town Clerk, Hosiah Chisango commences next week at the Harare Magistrates Court.
The two are facing perjury charges arising from a sworn affidavit before the High Court of Zimbabwe in October 2018.
Allegations are that on the 2nd of October 2018 at the High Court of Zimbabwe Civil Division, Harare, Van Blerk, in his own capacity and representing Pokugara Properties filed a falsely written statement
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2021-05-10 20:57:22 Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF Has No Appetite for Creating One-Party State - Ziyambi
‍[New Zimbabwe] Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has dismissed as malicious, claims by opposition parties and civil society organisations that Zanu PF was planning to create a one-party state in Zimbabwe.
The charges follow the signing into law of the Second Amendment Bill by President Emmerson Mnangagwa last Friday.
Ziyambi, who is also the Zanu PF Mashonaland West provincial chairperson, told the media at the weekend that Zimbabwe's democratic systems remained strong unlike what critics sought to make it appear.
"Our sy
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2021-05-10 20:21:18 West Africa: 'Rediscovered' Coffee Could Boost Farmers' Livelihoods
‍[SciDev.Net] Scientists have rediscovered rare wild coffee species in West Africa with tolerance to high temperatures and fine taste, potentially setting the region on course to staging a comeback in the global coffee industry, a study says.
The rediscovery of 'lost' Coffea stenophylla in Sierra Leone after years of searching, the scientists say, could be a game changer in an industry currently dominated by Coffee arabica species, which faces threats from climate change. C. arabica is popular because of its superior ta
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