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BY KEITH NUTHALL

ETHIOPIA COMMODITY EXCHANGE OPENS

ETHIOPIA has opened a commodity exchange, designed to bring order to the country’s often chaotic food markets. Their informality effectively forces farmers to sell locally to traders they know and trust. This prevents commodities moving from regions where there is abundance to those where there are shortages, intensifying the risk of famine and for prices to plummet in districts with a production glut.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

"EAT your greens": this common-or-garden parental health advice may boost the health and wealth of Kenyan rural communities in an innovative market garden development project. The UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is spending US$26.6 million on improving vegetable production and distribution for local markets, with the aim not only of boosting local prosperity, but also improving the diets of local consumers, improving their health and in turn making them more productive.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

FROM the scorching heat of Kenya’s northern border with the Sudan to the unforgiving conditions of Afghanistan, International Red Cross nurse Jenny Hayward-Karlsson has seen it all during a varied and challenging 20-year career working in the world’s war zones.…

BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg

THE FORTEEN countries of the Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG) have their AML/CFT work cut out. Under-funded, lacking resources, short of political will and working in a region that leaks money like a sieve…it is a demanding context for the group’s daunting tasks.…

BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg

CENTRAL bankers, drug barons, warlords, corporate bosses and small town crooks in Africa are all washing their money despite attempts by governments and international law enforcement agencies to bring them to book. But financial crime has never been as lucrative as now on the world’s poorest continent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE KENYAN trade minister charged with pushing forward compromise on agricultural issues at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit has called on his colleagues to abandon political caution to make a deal possible. Mukhisa Kituyi said at the summit’s first agriculture meeting: "Our diplomats in Geneva and our experts from capitals have not succeeded (in lower level talks) and now it is for ministers to show leadership and take responsibility and calculated risks."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE KENYAN trade minister charged with pushing forward compromise on agricultural issues at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit has called on his colleagues to abandon political caution to make a deal possible. Mukhisa Kituyi said at the summit’s first agriculture meeting: “Our diplomats in Geneva and our experts from capitals have not succeeded (in lower level talks) and now it is for ministers to show leadership and take responsibility and calculated risks.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MALARIA parasites make humans infected with the disease when in its transmissible phase more attractive to mosquitoes, encouraging them to bite, become infected themselves, and then spread it to other hosts, researchers claim. The fact that mosquitoes carrying a fully developed malaria parasite are manipulated by this organism to bite more frequently was already known.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan facing unprecedented pressure for his resignation over the involvement of his son in the brewing Iraq oil for food scandal, the spotlight has again fallen on the finances of his global body.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GOOD practice of an innovative honey company has been highlighted through its winning a United Nations Development Programme prize for promoting small-scale honey production in Kenya. Honey Care Africa, supported by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, has won the US$30,000 Equator Prize.…