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Category: Southern Africa

Southern Africa, southernmost region of the African continent, comprising the countries of Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Botswana Extends $70M Credit Line to Zimbabwe

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HARARE — Botswana has extended a credit facility of about $70 million meant to revive Zimbabwe's ailing industrial sector. The line of credit, announced Monday, comes at a time when Zimbabwe has no access to international lenders like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. According to the African Development Bank, Zimbabwe needs at least $4 billion in lines of... Read More

High Court Finds Namibia Coervively Sterilised HIV Positive Women

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Johannesburg, 30 July 2012 – In a landmark judgment, the High Court in Windhoek found today that the Namibian government had coercively sterilised three HIV-positive women in violation of their basic rights.  “This decision is a significant victory for HIV positive women in Namibia,” said Nicole Fritz, the Executive Director of the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC). “This ruling affirms not... Read More

NEW RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS DEVASTATING IMPACT OF GLOBAL FUND CRISIS ON HIV, TB RESPONSE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

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Johannesburg, 25 July 2012: The cancellation of Round 11 funding by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria has severely undermined efforts to tackle HIV and AIDS in southern Africa by weakening civil society organisations, diverting funds away from critical support programmes and preventing countries from targeting some of the most-at-risk groups, according to research released today at the... Read More

Honor July 20 Heroes, Malawi’s Joyce Banda Urged

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BLANTYRE--Family members and civil society leaders have asked Malawi President Joyce Banda to consider compensating dependants of victims of the infamous July 20 anti-government demonstrations and consider making July 20 a national holiday. "We, members of the bereaved and victims’ families, would to make a few requests...20th July of every year be commemorated under the theme 'A Rebirth of Democracy," said... Read More

Malawi: Pres Banda launches K6.8bn ‘Feed the Future’

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LILONGWE--President Joyce Banda said Thursday there’s need for farmers to improve the quality of their products for the agriculture sector to forge ahead. Banda was speaking during the launch of Integrating Nutrition in Value Chains Project (INVCP) designed to deliver Feed the Future and Global Health Initiatives in Tidi Village, Traditional Authority Chimutu in Lilongwe.“This is a good step if... Read More

US Rewards Joyce Banda – Restores $350 Million in Aid to Malawi

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ATLANTA -- According to news reports on VOANEWS, The United States has restored a $350-million aid package to Malawi that was suspended last year following deadly clashes between police and protesters in the southern African country. The Millennium Challenge Corporation, a U.S. government agency that assists developing countries, said it will release the aid because of democratic steps taken by Malawi's new... Read More

Sixty Somali immigrants drown on Lake Malawi

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Lilongwe -- Latest shocking news indicates over sixty immigrants from Somalia have drowned on Lake Malawi, Karonga Police have confirmed from its Kaporo Station. Reports indicate just 35 bodies as having been retrieved and the rest missing. They were 'floating' their way secretly on Tuesday into Malawi's northern lake-shore district of Karonga from neighboring Tanzania. Lately, a number of illegal immigrants,... Read More
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