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IRAN: New Budget May Add to Uncertainties, Political Strains
Analysis by Farideh Farhi*
HONOLULU, Hawaii - Iran's 347-billion-dollar budget for the 2010-11 fiscal year, finally approved by the Guardian Council in Tehran Tuesday - just days before its scheduled implementation on the Iranian New Year Mar. 21 - appears likely to add to the tensions and uncertainty that have bedeviled the country since the disputed June 2009 elections.
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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.
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NEPAL: Crippling Power Outages Throw Life Out of Gear
By Bhuwan Sharma
KATHMANDU - When it gets cold during Nepal’s winter nights, Yem Prasad Gurung turns on his heater run by liquefied petroleum gas. When it gets dark, he switches on the lights that rely on a solar inverter – and to make sure he gets water, he turns on a generator-powered water pump.
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GUATEMALA: Ok for Ex-President's Extradition to US Just One Step
By Danilo Valladares
GUATEMALA CITY - Civil society groups in Guatemala say a court decision authorising former Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo's extradition to the United States is just a first step in a lengthy process.
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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.
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DEVELOPMENT: 'Aid Industry is Part of the Problem'
By Ida Karlsson
STOCKHOLM - Aid organisations perpetuate humanitarian disasters. That is one of the conclusions made by war correspondent Linda Polman in her latest book as she describes the world of humanitarian aid.
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US-CHINA: Trade War Heats Up
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON - Relations between Beijing and Washington have been far from smooth since the beginning of the year.
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HAITI: Recovery Bill Estimated at 11.5 Billion Dollars
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Two weeks before a major donors conference, the Haitian government has estimated that the country will need some 11.5 billion dollars over the next three years to recover from the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake.
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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.
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LATIN AMERICA: NGOs Demand Transparency, Reforms in IDB
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - Dozens of civil society organisations in the Americas are demanding greater transparency and accountability as well as structural reforms in the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), ahead of the multilateral lender's annual meeting of governors that starts Friday in the Mexican resort of Cancún.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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BALKANS: Farming Prospers as Farmers Suffer
By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
BELGRADE - Official statistics put Serbian agriculture as the single most productive branch of the economy and one that not only survived the financial meltdown but chalked up a record trade surplus of almost a billion US dollars in 2009.
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