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SOUTHERN AND EASTERN AFRICA TOBACCO PRODUCTION FEATURE
BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg
AFRICA’S tobacco leaf producers are facing troubled times.
Instead of capitalising on crop and currency woes in rival Brazil, too many producers across the world’s poorest continent are battling drought and low selling prices.
Brazil’s problems should have opened a door of opportunity for leading African producers to claim back at least part of the world leaf market lost to south American and other producers when Zimbabwe’s crop collapsed amid the violent seizure of white-owned farm land.…
SOUTHERN EASTERN AFRICA REGIONAL ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING BODY FEATURE - ESAAMLG
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.…
MIGA FEATURE FOOD INDUSTRY PROJECT GUARANTEES COMMODITY DEVELOPMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ECONOMIC growth, especially in emerging markets, is forcing international food businesses to take a closer look at opportunities in potentially unstable countries, and the global aid community is keen to help. One international institution is well positioned, especially given the increasing demand for development projects to be largely private financed: the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, or MIGA, of the World Bank.…
MIGA INVESTMENT GUARANTEES MINING SECTOR WORLD BANK
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency, or MIGA, is the international organisation companies turn to when they want to invest in a jurisdiction where their assets might not be that safe. Mining companies have long used MIGA to cover risks that are too tasty for the private insurance industry, and the agency has issued 58 guarantees for the sector since it was formed in 1988.…
SOUTHERN AFRICAN PAINT AND COATINGS - BOTSWANA, NAMIBIA, ZIMBABWE, SWAZILAND, LESOTHO AND ZAMBIA
BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
THE PAINT and coatings industries in the Southern African states of Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Lesotho and Zambia are closely linked to that of the regional economic giant South Africa in the that the major manufacturing plants are located in the industrialised area of South Africa’s Gauteng province with branch offices in the neighbouring states acting as agents for the parent companies in South Africa.…
WHO ANTI-VIOLENCE PUBLIC HEALTH STRATEGY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has welcomed the spread of programmes tackling violence as a public health priority instead of just a crime problem, with the WHO saying such an approach fosters effective holistic policies. A recent conference, the 2nd Milestones of a Global Campaign for Violence Prevention, in San Francisco, co-hosted by the WHO and the California Wellness Foundation, heard of many new national models.…
SOUTHERN AFRICAN PAINT AND COATINGS - BOTSWANA, NAMIBIA, ZIMBABWE, SWAZILAND, LESOTHO AND ZAMBIA
BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
THE PAINT and coatings industries in the Southern African states of Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Lesotho and Zambia are closely linked to that of the regional economic giant South Africa in the that the major manufacturing plants are located in the industrialised area of South Africa’s Gauteng province with branch offices in the neighbouring states acting as agents for the parent companies in South Africa.…
MIGA INVESTMENT GUARANTEES MINING SECTOR WORLD BANK
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency, or MIGA, is the international organisation companies turn to when they want to invest in a jurisdiction where their assets might not be that safe. Mining companies have long used MIGA to cover risks that are too tasty for the private insurance industry, and the agency has issued 58 guarantees for the sector since it was formed in 1988.…
MOZAMBIQUE COAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CONSORTIUM headed by Brazil’s Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) has been chosen by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation to exploit the Moatize Coal Deposit in Tete Province, Mozambique. It had bid US$122.8 million to explore and mine 21 million tonnes annually.…
AIDS LIFE EXPECTANCY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
HIV and AIDS are so-ravaging southern Africa that local life expectancy rates are tumbling to where 30-year-olds are considered old men. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has reported cataclysmic falls in life expectancy in Zambia, where 32.7% HIV infection rates for adults aged 15-49 has cut average mortality ages from 47.4 in 1990 to 32.7 in 2002.…