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Billionaires and
Mega-Corporations Behind Immense Land Grab in Africa
20+ African countries are selling or leasing land for intensive
agriculture on a shocking scale in what may be the greatest change
of ownership since the colonial era. (...) An Observer investigation
estimates that up to 125 million acres of land -- an area more than
double the size of the UK -- has been acquired in the last few years
or is in the process of being negotiated by governments and wealthy
investors working with state subsidies. The land rush, which is
still accelerating, has been triggered by the worldwide food
shortages which followed the sharp oil price rises in 2008, growing
water shortages and the European Union's insistence that 10% of all
transport fuel must come from plant-based biofuels by 2015.In many
areas the deals have led to evictions, civil unrest and complaints
of "land grabbing". (...) "The foreign companies are arriving in
large numbers, depriving people of land they have used for
centuries. There is no consultation with the indigenous population.
The deals are done secretly. The only thing the local people see is
people coming with lots of tractors to invade their lands. "All the
land round my family village of Illia has been taken over and is
being cleared. People now have to work for an Indian company. Their
land has been compulsorily taken and they have been given no
compensation. People cannot believe what is happening. Thousands of
people will be affected and people will go hungry." It is not known
if the acquisitions will improve or worsen food security in Africa,
or if they will stimulate separatist conflicts, but a major World
Bank report due to be published this month is expected to warn of
both the potential benefits and the immense dangers they represent
to people and nature. Leading the rush are international
agribusinesses, investment banks, hedge funds, commodity traders,
sovereign wealth funds as well as UK pension funds, foundations and
individuals attracted by some of the world's cheapest land. Together
they are scouring Sudan, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Malawi, Ethiopia,
Congo, Zambia, Uganda, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Mali, Sierra Leone,
Ghana and elsewhere.
How China's taking over Africa,
and why the West should be VERY worried
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(...) With little fanfare, a staggering 750,000 Chinese have settled
in Africa over the past decade. More are on the way.The strategy has
been carefully devised by officials in Beijing, where one expert has
estimated that China will eventually need to send 300 million people
to Africa to solve the problems of over-population and pollution.
The plans appear on track. Across Africa, the red flag of China is
flying. Lucrative deals are being struck to buy its commodities -
oil, platinum, gold and minerals. New embassies and air routes are
opening up. The continent's new Chinese elite can be seen
everywhere, shopping at their own expensive boutiques, driving
Mercedes and BMW limousines, sending their children to exclusive
private schools. The pot-holed roads are cluttered with Chinese
buses, taking people to markets filled with cheap Chinese goods.
More than a thousand miles of new Chinese railroads are
crisscrossing the continent, carrying billions of tons of
illegally-logged timber, diamonds and gold. The trains are linked to
ports dotted around the coast, waiting to carry the goods back to
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Plan Africa
Plan
Africa is a new entity established to represent the dire need for
sustainable design and livelihoods for Africa. Our long term goals
are food security and strong regional economies on the continent.
One of the ways in which we aim to achieve this is through this
website and database detailing organic farming and permaculture
projects; which is easily accessible for information or contacts,
for people to ask for help, or simply to connect with other
like-minded people and organisations. We are also attempting to
create and map the continent’s sustainable development and farming
projects in order to create a comprehensive geographical picture
that details each project found in an area and its aims, objectives,
production, methodologies and available resources. It aims to allow
people working in sustainable development and livelihoods
opportunities to be aware of other initiatives and to provide
assistance and support to each other and to enable us to identify
what resources projects need in order to achieve our dream of a
sustainable and abundant Africa.
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Leading Women of Africa
uniting women leaders to find ways to contribute to the maintenance
of peace and stability in the continent through unity and economic
empowerment of women in the 21st century.
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Job Serve Africa
is a recruitment website
providing jobs and employment services for Africans to find jobs in
Africa.
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Seven Natural Wonders of the World:
Comprehensive endeavor committed to protecting the 7 Natural Wonders of
the World which include the spectacular Victoria Falls found in
Zambia/Zimbabwe Africa.
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Find a Job in Africa
Jobs for Africa
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Harvest Help
gives
practical support to rural communities in Africa - main focus is farming
and food production and the provision of clean water and education.
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African Success
positive and successful
point of view about Africa.
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Living Food For Africa
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it's the new way to eat - check it out!
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Controversial
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African Holocaust
Killing with kindness - There's lot
of expressed concern on the part of the US, the UN and WHO about
AIDS in Africa. Oddly, other much more serious diseases and
environmental problems in Africa are being ignored. The solution to
the "AIDS problem" in Africa?Lots of immuno-suppressive drugs and
the replacing of breast-feeding with infant formula. One researcher
called the west's anti-AIDS program in Africa "diabolical." This
video explains why. Bush & Friends are experts at combining
government "humanitarianism" and genocide.
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Deconstructing the Myth of AIDS
- Gary NullIn
1984 we were told that HIV was the cause of AIDS. In his provocative
documentary film, "Deconstructing the Myth of AIDS," Gary Null,
Ph.D., challenges virtually every statement ever made by the
American medical industrial complex on the virus - including those
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the
National Institute for Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA). While presenting the findings of Nobel
Prize-winning scientists and leading virologists, the film exposes
the political maneuvering, conspiracies and cover-ups that have
provided obstacles to the study of this human catastrophe from the
start. For example, there are experts who believe that AIDS is the
result of multiple factors, including drug use, stress and
nutritional deficiency, but that government agencies made a
politically strategic decision to de-emphasize these hypotheses and
thus discourage certain researchers and their funding. Meanwhile,
AZT, an infamously failed treatment for cancer, and now the primary
FDA-approved approach to treating AIDS, is highly toxic and can
produce the very symptoms of the illness it is prescribed to treat.
"Deconstructing the Myth of AIDS" goes beyond medicine and science
to question the very foundation of our reliance on government
bureaucracies where it concerns matters of life and death.
General
Positive
Africa InSites
s a pledge
by African leaders, based on a common vision and a firm and shared
conviction, that they have a pressing duty to eradicate poverty and to
place their countries, both individually and collectively, on a path of
sustainable growth and development and, at the same time, to participate
actively in the world economy and body politic.
The
People of Africa
dedicated to those who are
committed to the upliftment and development of their communities and
organizations, and therein of our continent. Whether this enriches the
cultural fabric or realizes economic potential or serves as a model for
inspiration to others, or even comes to constitute a community that
nurtures mutual understanding and engenders collaborative empowerment
projects, by featuring their autobiographies and extraordinary labours
on our site, we have realized a veritable
asset and gain for Africa .
The
Africa Fund
Founded in
1966 by the American Committee on Africa, the Africa Fund works
for a positive U.S. policy towards Africa and supports human
rights, democracy and development
Africa
Recovery seeks to
provide timely and accurate news and analysis on the critical
economic and development challenges facing the African
continent. Africa Recovery examines the many issues that
confront the people of Africa, its leaders and its international
partners: economic reform, debt, education and health, women's
advancement, conflict and civil strife, democratization, aid,
investment, trade, regional integration, rural development and
many other topics. It tracks the policy debates around these
issues, as they evolve. It provides expert analysis and
on-the-spot reporting on how those policies affect people on the
ground. It features the views of various policy-makers,
non-governmental leaders and others actively involved in efforts
to transform Africa and improve its prospects on the global stage.
Equinet the Network on
Equity in Health in Southern Africa, is a network of research,
civil society and health sector organisations. Seeking
to develop and widen the conceptual understanding of equity in
health, Equinet identifies critical areas of work and policy
issues and makes visible existing unfair and avoidable
inequalities in health. Equinet's
main aim is to build alliances leading to positive policies on
health both the local and regional levels.
Life
in Africa Foundation LiA's
unique collection of stories & images from around the
Continent looks beyond Africa's tragic statistics, to focus on
ordinary African people. Our pages are filled with everyday heroes
achieving remarkable things in their lives, in spite of the
extraordinary daily challenges they face, living on the world's
poorest continent.But we don't just report the good news... Armed
with the support of Internet users around the world and a
great group of volunteers, LiA also plays a direct role in making
good things happen in Africa. LiA creates opportunities
for the African poor to help themselves get ahead in sustainable
ways. We also provide YOU with unusually personal and fun ways to
learn about Africa, and to make a real impact, on real people's
lives.
Africa
Almanac The
purpose of the web site is to neutralize the negative
international image of Africa by playing up ONLY the good news,
the positive developments and trends, and the personalities making
the critical difference.
African
Virtual University
a "university without walls" that uses modern
information and communication technologies to give the countries
of sub-Saharan Africa direct access to some of the highest quality
academic faculty and learning resources throughout the world.
Talking
Africa
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extensive well organised directory on all topics with
thousands of links
African
newspapers
AJR NewsLink
is a joint venture between American Journalism Review
magazine and NewsLink Associates, an online research and
consulting firm. It includes features from AJR magazine,
the worldwide online publication lists of NewsLink and
original content created especially for online readers.
List includes several online-only publications.
Conserving
Wildlife. Respecting all life.The African Wildlife
Foundation, together with the people of Africa, works to
ensure the wildlife and wild lands of Africa will endure
forever. We have been working with the people of Africa
since 1961. Most of our staff is based in Africa, spread
between eight countries, working at the grass roots with
park managers and communities to safeguard wildlife and
wilderness areas.
Africare
helps Africa. Over the course of its 28 years, Africare
has become a leader among private, charitable U.S.
organizations assisting Africa and is the oldest and
largest African-American organization in that field.
Agricon
Africa involves itself in all facets of agribusiness
development and project implementation throughout the
Central and Southern regions of Africa. Its mission is
to provide practical, sustainable, professional
agricultural and agribusiness advice and supervision
based on grass roots research of the sub continent of
Africa. Our objective is to ensure the shape and
prosperity for the African people, who live and work in
the rural sector, for generations to come. This stems
from our on-the-spot experience of the land, its
economic potential and the capacity to determine and
manage any inherent risk factors.
A very
comprehensive website, opening the Africa Continent with
many links, forums, news, directories, shops and much
more. "Just "clickafrique! and find out"
We protect
liberty. We defend it everywhere in the world. We
support the oppressed, and encourage all peoples to
confront injustice, oppression, exploitation and
colonialism. We encourage them to combat imperialism,
racism and fascism, in accordance with the principle of
the collective struggle of peoples against the enemies
of liberty. The Green Charter for Human Rights.
Nelson
Mandela Children's Fund
The Nelson Mandela Children's Fund will nurture,
motivate and care for the future of children and youth. Mission Statement:
To support organizations implementing programmes and
projects that empower children and youth from
impoverished backgrounds to improve the quality of their
lives. The NMCF places emphasis on creative, innovative,
and participatory initiatives that have the potential to
change the ways in which society responds to children
and youth.
All
Africa
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news from around africa
World
Food Program
Hunger
afflicts one out of seven people on Earth. WFP is the
frontline United Nations Agency whose mission is to
provide: Food for LIFE to sustain victims of man-made
and natural disasters; Food for GROWTH to improve the
nutrition and quality of life of the most vulnerable
people at critical times in their lives; and Food for
WORK to help build assets and promote the self-reliance
of poor people and communities, particularly through
labour-intensive works programmes
Aids
Economies and
Crippling Debts
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