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Jews sans frontieres (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Voting record of UN members on the General Assembly resolution: In favor: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Comoros, Congo, Cuba, Cyprus, Democratic People’s...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has been feeding people in Lesotho since 1965, yet the tiny mountain kingdom is still not much closer to achieving food self-sufficiency. Time to overhaul the approach, aid agencies say.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Fifteen-year-old Ntsebeng Tlokotsi* sighs with relief as she is given 140 dollars. Along with it she receives a bag of maize meal and cooking oil. It is a government handout, and she qualifies for this only because both her parents are dead.
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Geostrategy (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
By Ann CrottyEconomic diversity is the most important policy imperative facing the four smaller members of the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu), the World Trade Organisation's (WTO's) latest trade policy review of the region notes.Since the previous review in 2003, Sacu members (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland) collectively grew gross domestic product (GDP) at an
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World Food Program (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Fifteen-year-old Ntsebeng Tlokotsi sighs with relief as she is given 140 dollars. Along with it she receives a bag of maize meal and cooking oil. It is a government handout, and she qualifies for this only because both her parents are dead.(..)Through the World Food Programme commodities such as maize meal, cooking oil and pulses are also provided.
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Italy Down Under (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Afrikaans is an Indo-European language, derived from Dutch and classified as Low Franconian Germanic, mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia, with smaller numbers of speakers in Botswana, Angola, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, and Zambia. Due to emigration and migrant labour, there are possibly over 100,000 Afrikaans speakers in the United Kingdom, with other substantial communities found in Brussels,...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Rich countries urge African bloc not to derail negotiations after poor nations shock the UN by refusal to participate in talks Rich countries today piled pressure on Africa not to derail climate talks after the poorest countries in the world shocked the UN by walking out of the official negotiations, demanding that their concerns be met. The chair of the Africa group of nations, Kamel Djemouai, was...
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Design Observer (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
AIDS education mixes with soccer in plans for a new Lesotho stadium.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Having more than one sexual relationship at the same time is driving the spread of HIV in small landlocked Lesotho. The health sector has long suspected this, but a new report by the National AIDS Commission (NAC), in partnership with UNAIDS and the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, has confirmed it.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
THE Sadc Organ on Politics, Defence and Security will soon convene an ordinary summit of the Troika where a report of its ministerial delegation to Zimbabwe and Lesotho will be presented.
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Indian Express (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
He believes that the AGOA played an important role in expanding exports, especially manufactured exports, from Africa to the US and the dynamic growth of Lesotho's textile industry is a befitting example of that.
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Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Here is the rank. " Iceland (1) has claimed the top spot of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2009 from Norway (3) which slipped to third position behind Finland (2) . Sweden (4) Completed the Nordic countries’ continued dominance of the top four. The report’s Index assesses countries on how well they are dividing their resources and opportunities among their...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Lesotho's Mamorallo Tjoka could become the first woman to win five Soweto Marathon titles when she lines up at Nasrec on Sunday.
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Tennessee Guerilla Women (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
The annual Global Gender Gap Report is out. The report ranks the world's countries according to how well they do gender equality. The usual egalitarian countries are at the top of the list: Iceland, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The U.S., which never does well in world-wide measures of gender equality, comes in at #31. The U.S. actually fell "three spots lower than it was last year." The top...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Two southern African states -- South Africa and Lesotho -- have leapt into top 10 ranking of countries where women face the least discrimination, the World Economic Forum said Tuesday.
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