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BY DEIRDRE MASON
EXCITING developments in malaria vaccine research may lead to a strengthened armoury against a disease that now infects about 400 million people worldwide and kills close to 2 million children a year. An international research project, led by Dr Adrian Batchelor from Maryland University, USA, has pinpointed a section of an important segment of “apical membrane antigen 1” or AMA-1 to those in the know, a protein produced by the malaria parasite during a critical stage of this complex, but deadly, organism’s development.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, is lending US$2.1 million to the leading book printing firm of west Africa’s Mali, Graphique Industrie, to help it exploit the liberalisation of the country’s education publishing. Until recently, all schoolbooks produced in Mali have been printed and edited by its Ministry of Education, but this year private companies can also supply texts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SPECIAL sub-committee has been created at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) tasked with promoting liberalisation in the global cotton sector in the ongoing Doha Development Round. The task force was created on Friday (Nov 19) to work on “all trade-distorting policies affecting the sector”, in all three key areas of the Doha agriculture talks: market access, domestic support, and export competition.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NOVEL ‘speed dating’ system at the first global ICT (information communication technology) forum for least developed countries, proved a success, said organisers. Held in Mauritius, potential donors, investors and beneficiary governments identified areas of common interest in one-to-one meetings.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE WEST African countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali have tabled an ambitious plan for the swift dismantling of developed country cotton subsidies; it will be examined at the World Trade Organisation’s ministerial summit in Cancun, Mexico, which opened today (Sept 10).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SURPRISINGLY wide support for the west African plan to rid the world of cotton subsidies has been voiced at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit, in Cancun, Mexico. The Canadian and Australian governments yesterday (10 Sept) threw their developed country weight behind the plan, as did WTO Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission, representing the 15 EU member countries, is to propose that the European Union de-couples support for cotton from production in what it calls “a constructive solution to address the trade aspects linked

to the depressed prices in the current world cotton market.”…

BY RICHARD HURST
SOUTH African mining company AngloGold recently announced that it was seeking to divest from some of its Australian gold fields to continue other diversification efforts outside South Africa. AngloGold Australia ‘s general manager, Barrie Parker, said that the company’s current properties in the central Australian Tanami Desert, particularly the Coyote deposit, had been earmarked for sale in to raise money for AngloGold’s recent explorations in Ghana, Mongolia, Canada and South America.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DETAILS of the money demanded by four west African countries seeking compensation for subsidies paid to cotton producers in the developed world and China have been released at the World Trade Organisation. Speaking on behalf of its proposal partners Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali, the government of Benin has claimed that developing countries lose exports worth US$25 million because of the rich world supports, rising to US$1 billion considering losses incurred by people living indirectly from cotton production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CALL has been made at the World Trade Organisation for this September’s summit in Cancún, Mexico, to agree to compensate least developed countries for the economic pain wreaked on their cotton producers by subsides paid out in rich developed countries.…