Friday 16 August 2013

IRIN Africa English reports, 8/15/2013




Dry winter spells bad news for Lesotho's farmers

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MASERU, 15 August 2013 (IRIN) - On a windy day in Thaba-Bosiu, 40km from Lesotho’s capital, Maseru, Nkoliopa Mosotho is inspecting his parched fields. Like many other rural farmers in Lesotho, he was banking on winter snowfall to soften the iron-hard ground and allow him to plough, but none fell.
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Why South Africa's land reform agenda is stuck

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DURBAN, 15 August 2013 (IRIN) - This year marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the South African Land Act, which restricted black people from buying or occupying land except as employees of white people. The Act gave white people ownership of 87 percent of land, leaving the black majority to settle in the remaining 13 percent.
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Ruling party’s win may choke Togo reforms

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LOME, 15 August 2013 (IRIN) - Togo’s July legislative polls extended the dominance of President Faure Gnassingbé’s party, which has been in power since 1967, despite opposition claims of malpractice. These results could narrow the chances for reforms and presage the results of the 2015 presidential election, analysts say.
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Immunization challenges in South Sudan despite polio success

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JUBA, 15 August 2013 (IRIN) - South Sudan is doing its bit for global polio eradication efforts, but huge gaps in immunization against other diseases remain.
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Briefing: The humanitarian situation in Darfur

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NAIROBI, 15 August 2013 (IRIN) - The UN estimates that the conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region has seen some 300,000 people displaced so far in 2013 - twice as many as in 2011 and 2012, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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