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Environment and Development News 

This page provides topical news clips adpated from various sources on environment and development in Swaziland and elsewhere in southern Africa.

22 February 2005
Environmental Change May Be Boosting Diseases - UN

21 February 2005
Africa Environment Outlook: Past, present and future perspectives

16 February 2005
Kyoto Protocol About to Bite, UN Calls it First Step

2 February 2005
Study Uncovers New Threatened Ecological Hotspots

24 January 2005
Countdown to climate-change catastrophe

24 January 2005
Swaziland: The impact of 50 years of industrial forestry 

18 January 2005
Environment Critical in Defeating Poverty, Disease and Hunger

17 January 2005
UN Millennium Project presents key MDG Report

13 January 2005
True Axis of Evil Is Poverty, Pollution

7 January 2005
Monsanto fined $1.5m for bribery

29 December 2004
Region Must Prepare for Recurring Drought

December 2004
Living with variable climate in southern Africa

22 December 2004
Madagascar's Poor See No Benefit From Conservation

17 December 2004
Red hot solution to marauding elephant crop threat

17 December 2004
New Kenyan Wildlife Law Enrages Activists 

17 December 2004
Climate threat 'looms largest for Africa' 

15 December 2004
Christian Aid and the GM Crops Debate 

14 December 2004
Zambia Government Drafts Biosafety Legislation

14 December 2004
Environmental and Social Justice Groups Condemn Pro-GMO tree decision of UNFCCC

12 December 2004
GM trees are a false option, Biodiversity is the solution

10 December 2004
Responding to Drought and Food Insecurity

10 December 2004
Wood Carving Industry Hard on African Forests

9 December 2004
Kyoto won't work, warns climate expert

6 December 2004
Climate Change more catastrophic than Terrorism

1 December 2004
Africa 'makes excuses on climate' 

30 November 2004 
Call for GM Cotton to Replace Tobacco

29 November 2004
SA told its delegates to oppose IUCN on GMOs 

25 November 2004
Climate change might spell doom for Africa

22 Nobember 2004
IUCN calls for a moratorium on the further release of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)

12 November 2004
Swaziland: Facing fourth year of drought

22 October 2004
Parched fields mean another year of food aid

15 October 2004
Water and sanitation project helps rural schoolchildren 

14 September 2004
Swazi Government campaigns to prevent bilharzia

21 July 2004
UN Official Implicates HIV in Southern Africa Food Crisis

6 February 2004
At least 16 people die of Cholera since December

6 February 2004
Drought kills 2,300 cattle

2 February 2004
217,000 people will receive no harvest

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Yonge Nawe
Yonge Nawe
Environmental Action Group
Email: yonawe@realnet.co.sz
P O Box 2061
Mbabane
Swaziland
Tel: +268 404 7701
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Fax: +268 404 7701