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Jul 30, 2011 Malawi: Challenging Power & Corruption
"The protests and riots of July 20 are fundamentally about
governance and development, the enduring desire among
Malawians for the establishment of a sustainable democratic
developmental state. It underscores the fact that economic
growth without development is not enough. ... President
Mutharika embodies the contradictions of Malawi's political
system and the crassness of Malawi's political class." -
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Jul 15, 2010 Africa: AIDS Treatment 2.0
As donor commitment to the fight against AIDS threatens to falter,
UNAIDS, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS, has issued a new report
with ambitious proposals and an upbeat perspective on the prospects
for advances in both treatment and prevention. Proposing simplified
treatment practices under the rubric "Treatment 2.0," the report
also cites significant advances in prevention, particularly among
African youth, and widespread global awareness of the importance of
the pandemic among issues requiring high priority.
Oct 4 2009 Africa: Wind Power in Global Context
"Wind is .. abundant, low cost, and widely distributed; it scales
up easily and can be developed quickly. Oil wells go dry and coal
seams run out, but the earth's wind resources cannot be depleted.
... harnessing one fifth of the earth's available wind energy would
provide seven times as much electricity as the world currently
uses. ... At the heart of Plan B is a crash program to develop
3,000 gigawatts (3 million megawatts) of wind generating capacity
by 2020, enough to satisfy 40 percent of world electricity needs.
... Indeed, the idled capacity in the U.S. automobile industry is
sufficient to produce all the wind turbines the world needs to
reach the Plan B global goal. " - Lester Brown, Plan B 4.0, October
2009
Jan 22, 2009 Africa: Subsidies that Work
May 23, 2007 Africa: Medicines without Doctors
Oct 18, 2005 Southern Africa: Food Emergency Shortfall
May 18, 2004 Malawi: Election Context
Apr 13, 2004 Africa: World Bank Protests/Policy
Recent Bulletins on Continent-Wide Issues
Feb 3, 2012 Africa: Paying for Health
Dec 30, 2011 Africa: Review 2011 with AfricaFocus
Dec 17, 2011 Africa: Capital Flight Updates
Dec 17, 2011 Africa: Measuring Capital Flight
Dec 12, 2011 Africa: Books New & Notable 2011
Dec 7, 2011 Africa: Carbon Trading Deceptions
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