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KENYA: State Insists Counterfeit Law’s No Threat to Right to Life By Suleiman Mbatiah NAIROBI - Kenya’s Constitutional Court heard on Mar. 18 from counsel representing the government that the Anti-Counterfeit Act of 2008 does not threaten the importation or manufacturing of cheap generic medicines and therefore does not deny Kenyans their constitutional right to life. MORE >>
ECONOMY-SENEGAL: 'Only The Rich Get Loans' By Koffigan E. Adigbli DAKAR - Despite the financial sector boom in Senegal, small and medium sized businesses (SMBs), which represent over 90 percent of the industrial fabric of the country, struggle to access funding for their development, their representatives claim. MORE >>
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Unexpected Low Custom Revenue Causes Budget Shortfalls By Servaas van den Bosch WINDHOEK - Plummeting revenues from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) could cause severe financial difficulties in the region, economic experts warn. To make matters worse, the organisation is split over the future of its tariff pool that largely bankrolls the national budgets of its poorer members. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT: Spain’s New Drive to Extend its Interests in Africa By Stanley Kwenda PRETORIA - Spain is breaking new ground in its relations with Africa through an ambitious programme which has seen it increasing its development funding to the continent more than six-fold from 2004 to reach 1,4 billion euros in 2008. MORE >>
POLITICS: Sahel Leaders Meet on al Qaeda Threat By Charles Fromm WASHINGTON - Representatives from seven North African and Sahelian states convened in Algiers on Tuesday to discuss the growing threat of al Qaeda's North African affiliate in the region. MORE >>
SWAZILAND: Budget Cuts Ahead but More Money for Education and Health By Mantoe Phakathi MBABANE - Her swollen feet are a constant reminder to Sanele Matsebula that she needs to take her medication. MORE >>
AFRICA: Corruption Carries High Cost, World Bank Says By Mohammed A. Salih WASHINGTON - Poverty is on the rise in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and various forms of corruption threaten to undermine the impact of investments made to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the continent, said the World Bank in a report released Monday on Africa's development. MORE >>
HEALTH-UGANDA: EU Supports Law Threatening Access to Medicines By Wambi Michael KAMPALA - The European Union (EU) is funding the drafting of Uganda’s controversial Counterfeit Goods Bill, a proposed law that has caused an outcry as it threatens access to life-saving generic medicines in this low income East African country. Some 90 percent of medicines used in Uganda’s health-care system are imported, of which about 93 percent are generics. MORE >>
RIGHTS-SWAZILAND: Property Rights At Last for Women By Mantoe Phakathi MBABANE - A recent court ruling has finally given Swazi women the right to own and administer property in their own names. MORE >>
UGANDA: Pressure Mounts to Make Public Oil Agreements By Joshua Kyalimpa KAMPALA - Uganda’s members of parliament (MPs) are pressurising government to make public details of oil production-sharing agreements it signed with various international oil companies. MORE >>
DR CONGO: Will Poultry Project Live up to Expectations? By Emmanuel Chaco KINSHASA - For some seven million Congolese living in Kinshasa the only meat and poultry they could buy to eat since the 1980s was frozen imports from Western countries, distributed locally by a few local businessmen. MORE >>
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The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) is a regional arm of the UN with 53 African member states. Its primary responsibility is to encourage the growth of the economic and social sectors of the continent.
