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Uganda Could Become Regional Rice Exporter say Researchers

Credit:Manoocher Deghati/IRIN

Uganda hopes to improve local rice varieties to develop disease resistance and early maturity varieties as part of a wider program.

By Joshua Kyalimpa
KAMPALA (IPS) - In a small garden at the Entebbe Botanical garden, about 40 kilometres from Kampala, a few yellowish plants are trying to adapt to their new environment.

MALAWI: A Cellphone, a Bicycle and Sound Agricultural Advice
AFRICA: Modified Banana Could Cure Deadly Disease

Further Victims Identified in DRC Mass Rapes Case
Aprille Muscara
UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - The number of women raped by rebel groups during last month’s raid of more than a dozen villages centred around Walikale, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has risen to over 240, U.N. officials told reporters here today.

Funding Begins Flowing for African Agriculture
Claire Ngozo
WINDHOEK (IPS) - The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) has received a major boost as several countries have begun drawing on funds from a $22 billion pledge made by the G8.

	Brian Moonga takes a look at Lusaka’s George Water Supply Project
	UNAIDS says Africa should produce its own generic ARVs

HIV/AIDS

Women in the News: The Gender Wire

> Further Victims Identified in DRC Mass Rapes Case
> Genocide Ideology and Sectarianism Laws Silencing Critics?
> Protecting Lake Victoria's Top Predator
> Outrage Grows Over Failure to Protect DRC Civilians

Economics - Finance

> Funding Begins Flowing for African Agriculture
> "Xenophobia Simmering Just Below Boiling Point"
> Fisheries Can Play Key Role in Africa
> Growing Seed Security

> Further Victims Identified in DRC Mass Rapes Case
> "Xenophobia Simmering Just Below Boiling Point"
> Genocide Ideology and Sectarianism Laws Silencing Critics?
> Outrage Grows Over Failure to Protect DRC Civilians

> Funding Begins Flowing for African Agriculture
> HIV-positive Mothers Not Convinced to Exclusively Breastfeed
> ‘Welcome to My Taxi – Let’s Do Business with My Cell Phone’
> ‘Tea Bag’ Filter Provides Safe Drinking Water

Health - HIV/AIDS

> HIV-positive Mothers Not Convinced to Exclusively Breastfeed
> ‘Tea Bag’ Filter Provides Safe Drinking Water
> Public Health Strained by Nurses' Strike
> Unfriendly Nurses and Culture Hinder Male Involvement in HIV Prevention

> Teachers' Voices Heard in Public Sector Strike
> Attempts to Modernise Traditional Circumcision Rites
> Burkinabé Women's Economic Empowerment Key to Girls' Education
> Sticks And Straw Out of Our Schools

> "Sub-Saharan Africa Is Speeding Towards Affluence"
> New Refinery Planned for Lagos Free Trade Zone
> China: Outsmarting the West in Africa
> Can Democracy Survive the "Oil Curse" in Africa?

> Fisheries Can Play Key Role in Africa
> Mali Nomads Flee Drought
> "Sub-Saharan Africa Is Speeding Towards Affluence"
> A Bid to Save Macadamia Crops

Religion, Culture, Gender and Rights

Africa - A Globalising Continent

Rip & Read - Radio Service

Children on the Frontline

Bitter Pill - Obstacles to Affordable Medicine

Farming the Future Africa

The Southern Africa Water Wire

Active Citizens

CHANGING LIVES: Making Research Real

Africa: Polls to Polls

From Aid to Trade with Africa: Fact or Fiction?

More Africa News

BOTSWANA: HIV-positive Mothers Not Convinced to Exclusively Breastfeed

SOUTH AFRICA: "Xenophobia Simmering Just Below Boiling Point"

Fisheries Can Play Key Role in Africa

SOUTHERN AFRICA: Growing Seed Security

RWANDA: Genocide Ideology and Sectarianism Laws Silencing Critics?

AFRICA: ‘Welcome to My Taxi – Let's Do Business with My Cell Phone'

SOUTH AFRICA: ‘Tea Bag' Filter Provides Safe Drinking Water

EAST AFRICA: Protecting Lake Victoria's Top Predator

Outrage Grows Over Failure to Protect DRC Civilians

Sudan's President and Criminal Court in Cat-and-Mouse Game

Dernières Nouvelles

MONDE: Le commerce équitable est en expansion mais les Africains sont à la traîne

AFRIQUE DU SUD: Les voix des enseignants entendues dans la grève du secteur public

RD CONGO: Les Pygmées contraints de quitter la forêt surexploitée en Ituri

OUGANDA: Des infirmières et une culture hostiles retardent l’implication des hommes dans la prévention du VIH

ZIMBABWE: Des enfants traversent les frontières en quête d’un traitement du VIH

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News in Swahili

KUSINI MWA AFRIKA: Marekebisho ya Umilikaji wa Ardhi Yatengewa Fedha Kidogo, Yashindikana

AFRIKA: Uhaba wa Ujuzi Katika Afya ya Uzazi

SUDAN KUSINI: Watoto Wana Njaa Kurejea katika Maisha ya Uraiani

MALAWI: Wafuasi wa Chama Tawala Wafanya Kampeni Chafu Dhidi ya Makamu wa Rais

DRC: Wakulima wa DRC Wakaribisha Msaada

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