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		<title>Grassroots Entrepreneurs Now Have Many Ways to Fund their Enterprises</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past, African entrepreneurs were extremely limited in the options for funding their plans. They had to rely on often ineffective national banks or local networks based on political, tribal or family connections to secure funding for enterprises. That has now changed, and there is an explosion in new thinking on business start-ups and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southsouthnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=758905&amp;post=26&amp;subd=southsouthnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dynamic Growth in African ICT is Unlocking Secrets of SME Treasure Trove</title>
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		<title>Securing Land Rights for the Poor Now Reaping Rewards</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hotly debated issue of land rights for the poor has never been more relevant. There is mounting evidence that access to land rights can catapult the poor out of poverty and spur growth for the economy. Experience in India and China is now showing the economic power unleashed when the poor gain full legal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southsouthnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=758905&amp;post=24&amp;subd=southsouthnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>African Tourism Leads the World and Brings New Opportunities</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tourism around the world is growing rapidly again after the setbacks caused by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Tourism is also finally acknowledging Africa &#8211; home to 888 million people (2005, UN) &#8211; and where 46 percent of sub-Saharan Africa&#8217;s people live on less than US$1 a day. Led by Kenya and South Africa, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southsouthnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=758905&amp;post=1&amp;subd=southsouthnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Computing in Africa is Set to Get a Big Boost</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The image of Africa as a technological laggard is set to be seriously challenged as a number of developments converge in 2007. Alongside the booming African mobile phone market &#8211; itself now getting global attention for innovation &#8211; the African computer scene will soon have both the software and hardware that acknowledge the continent&#8217;s unique [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southsouthnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=758905&amp;post=62&amp;subd=southsouthnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ring Tones and Mobile Phone Downloads are Generating Income for Local Musicians in Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[African musicians hoping to support themselves through their recordings have always had to contend with the added burden of poor copyright control over their work. While musicians in the West are supported by a highly regulated regime of copyright protection &#8211; ensuring some to become the richest people in their respective countries &#8211; most African [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southsouthnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=758905&amp;post=63&amp;subd=southsouthnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon Credits can Benefit African Farmers Thanks to New System</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The global carbon credit trading schemes emanating from the Kyoto Protocol are now creating a multi-billion dollar market &#8211; the European carbon market was worth €14.6 billion in 2006 &#8211; and represents one of the fastest growing business opportunities in the world. Being green has finally come of age. Yet all the benefits of this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southsouthnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=758905&amp;post=64&amp;subd=southsouthnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Battery Back-up Technology Targeting Developing Countries and Remote Regions</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Africa&#8217;s greater global engagement and economic growth in the past few years has started to draw attention back towards the continent&#8217;s dearth of reliable power sources and inadequate power infrastructure. While demand grows at a fast pace, sadly political instability and lack of security in many countries scares off foreign investors and multinational companies who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southsouthnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=758905&amp;post=65&amp;subd=southsouthnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Landmark Study Finds Simple Toys Key to Boosting Educational Development and Meeting MDGs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[African youth need to play more according to a new landmark study published in the UK&#8217;s leading medical journal, The Lancet. The study tackles the high rates of illiteracy and educational under-achievement in Africa and finds that malnourishment and lack of stimulation are leaving millions unable to benefit from schooling. It found projects that encouraged [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southsouthnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=758905&amp;post=66&amp;subd=southsouthnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-five years ago, we saw the first cases of HIV/AIDS. It then took 15 years before we saw the development of effective drugs. Those available today have a 90 per cent success rate in putting patients into remission, and they are increasingly available and at low cost in poorer nations. Even so, in addition to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southsouthnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=758905&amp;post=57&amp;subd=southsouthnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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