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Fishing for jobs in Lesotho
27 March 2013
(IRIN
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Tsotleho Befole, 24, travelled from the Lesotho highlands village of Hasephapo-Taunyane to neighbouring South Africa twice in the past year, searching for work in the mines. Both times it proved a wasted journey.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97614/Fishing-for-jobs-in-Lesotho
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Mixed picture for Lesotho's food security
25 March 2013
(IRIN
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It’s a chilly autumn morning and Ntja Mphale, 62, and his wife, Malehlohonolo, are hoeing a dew-covered field just outside their village of Machache, 43km from Lesotho’s capital, Maseru. They are among thousands of unemployed Basotho who depend on seasonal work weeding smallholder farmers’ fields to earn a little cash.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97720/Mixed-picture-for-Lesotho-s-food-security
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Southern Africa cracks down on TB in mines
25 March 2013
(IRIN
),
South Africa's gold mines are estimated to have the highest number of new tuberculosis (TB) cases in the world, making the disease a leading export to neighbouring countries. IRIN takes a look at the declaration meant to change this situation.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97719/Southern-Africa-cracks-down-on-TB-in-mines
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African migrants pay high prices to send money home
27 February 2013
(IRIN
),
New data from the World Bank has revealed that African migrants pay more to send money home to their families than any other migrant group in the world.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97557/African-migrants-pay-high-prices-to-send-money-home
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Solving statelessness in Southern Africa
30 January 2013
(IRIN
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Frederik Ngubane was born in South Africa to South African parents 22 years ago but, lacking any proof of his origins or nationality, he lives a shadowy, marginal existence. He cannot travel, study or secure formal employment and has lost count of how many times he has been arrested for being undocumented.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97372/Solving-statelessness-in-Southern-Africa
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In Brief: Staples, not export crops, key to tackling Africa’s poverty – report
18 January 2013
(IRIN
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Africa could reduce its poverty levels faster by focusing more on the production of staples rather than export crops, according to a study by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97278/In-Brief-Staples-not-export-crops-key-to-tackling-Africa-s-poverty-report
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BANGLADESH-KENYA: Our Lives - A survivors' guide to hard times
6 December 2012
(IRIN
),
Price Watch (Our lives)
http://www.irinnews.org/In-depth/96695/98/BANGLADESH-KENYA-Our-Lives-A-survivors-guide-to-hard-times
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LESOTHO: ‘Mammuso Lebakeng – Crafts trader, Lesotho
6 December 2012
(IRIN
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‘Mammuso Lebakeng has been making and selling crafts in Maseru, Lesotho's capital, for five decades. But in recent years, sales have been poor and her income from farming has declined due to unfavourable weather.
http://www.irinnews.org/HOV/96896/LESOTHO-Mammuso-Lebakeng-Crafts-trader-Lesotho
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LESOTHO: Moloantoa Mokhomphatha – Builder, Lesotho
6 December 2012
(IRIN
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Moloantoa Mokhomphatha is a well-known house builder in his community, 45km from Lesotho’s capital, Maseru. In addition to pay from his construction work, he earns a small income from rearing cows for lease to fellow villagers. He also grows vegetables and maize and raises a few pigs for meat.
http://www.irinnews.org/HOV/96692/LESOTHO-Moloantoa-Mokhomphatha-Builder-Lesotho
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IDPs: African IDP Convention comes into force
6 December 2012
(IRIN
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The African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) 2009, also known as the Kampala Convention, came into force on 6 December; it is the world’s first legally binding instrument to cater specifically to people displaced within their own countries.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96984/IDPs-African-IDP-Convention-comes-into-force
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Governments failing to address cervical cancer
31 October 2012
(IRIN
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Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among women in southern Africa, but new research reveals that governments’ attempts to address the disease have been inadequate. Access to cervical cancer screening services is minimal, few countries in the region have policies on the disease, and treatment remains a major challenge.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96676/SOUTHERN-AFRICA-Governments-failing-to-address-cervical-cancer
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Increasing hostility towards Chinese traders
7 September 2012
(IRIN
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In the last decade, Asian migrants have fanned out through southern Africa, opening shops in small towns and rural backwaters. While consumers in countries facing increasing economic hardships have come to depend on their low prices, local shop owners complain they are being forced out of business, pressuring governments to introduce restrictions on foreign traders.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96266/SOUTHERN-AFRICA-Increasing-hostility-towards-Chinese-traders
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AFRICA: AGOA uncertainty hurts textile workers
17 July 2012
(IRIN
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The livelihoods of tens of thousands of textile workers in Africa is hanging in the balance amid growing anxiety about whether a key provision of US trade legislation will be renewed before it expires in September.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95883/AFRICA-AGOA-uncertainty-hurts-textile-workers
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LESOTHO: Illegal migrant miners risk lives for riches
16 July 2012
(IRIN
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Mohau Raphoka left his village, about 50km outside Lesotho’s capital, Maseru, with high hopes of striking it rich in South Africa. “I was so unlucky; I should be driving a flashy car by now,” he told IRIN, shortly after being deported from Welkom, a mining town in South Africa’s Free State Province.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95875/LESOTHO-Illegal-migrant-miners-risk-lives-for-riches
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LESOTHO: Traffickers prey on desperate job seekers
28 June 2012
(IRIN
),
At the age of 15 and with no money for school shoes or a uniform, Linda* was forced to accept that her education was over and it was time to look for a job. In Lesotho’s southern Quthing District, where she lived, it is accepted wisdom that finding a job means crossing the border into South Africa, which completely surrounds this mountainous kingdom of 1.8 million people and dwarfs its tiny economy.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95756/LESOTHO-Traffickers-prey-on-desperate-job-seekers
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LESOTHO: Food security goes from bad to worse
26 June 2012
(IRIN
),
Initial estimates of the damage to Lesotho’s already ailing agricultural sector - caused by a year of too much rain followed by a year of too little - suggest that an unprecedented number of small-scale farmers harvested nothing this year.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95735/LESOTHO-Food-security-goes-from-bad-to-worse
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AFRICA: Donor fatigue forces WFP to cut refugee rations
19 June 2012
(IRIN
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The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has halved food rations to refugees living in camps in at least four African countries citing a funding shortfall.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95597/AFRICA-Donor-fatigue-forces-WFP-to-cut-refugee-rations
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REFUGEES: Moving out of the shadows
31 May 2012
(IRIN
),
When night falls in the Dadaab refugee complex in eastern Kenya, nearly half a million refugees are plunged into darkness. The lack of light robs schoolchildren of the possibility of studying and provides perfect cover for thieves and rapists.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95558/REFUGEES-Moving-out-of-the-shadows
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FOOD: Power to the people!
15 May 2012
(IRIN
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The UN Development Programme (UNDP) launched its first Africa Human Development Report today, stressing food security as a means to a better quality of life for all.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95459/FOOD-Power-to-the-people
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MALAWI: Without land reform, small farmers become "trespassers"
26 April 2012
(IRIN
),
Dorothy Dyton, her husband and seven children used to make a living farming just over a hectare near the town of Bangula in southern Malawi’s Chikhwawa District.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95363/MALAWI-Without-land-reform-small-farmers-become-trespassers
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