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1.	Somaliland: Seeking alternatives to charcoal in Somaliland
	Author: IRIN, Hargesia	Date Written: 27 June 2009
	Primary Category: Ecology	Document Origin: IRIN News
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org
	Key Words: Somalia, deforestation, charcoal,
	Summary & Comment: Each household in Somaliland consumes an equivalent of 10 trees a month, according to one report. Most urban households use charcoal for everyday cooking. What are the alternatives as this is adversely affecting the environment? AB
2.	Climate proofing the Zambezi
	Author: IRIN News, Johannesburg	Date Written: 25 June 2009
	Primary Category: Ecology	Document Origin: IRIN News
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org
	Key Words: Zambezi River, IFRC, floods
	Summary & Comment: At 2,574 kilometers, the Zambezi is Africa’s fourth largest river. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has launched a USD$ 8 million initiative to help increase the disaster resilience of the 600,000 people living along the Zambezi. AB
3.	Environmentalists point to worrying pace of deforestation
	Author: IRIN News, Kampala	Date Written: 24 June 2009
	Primary Category: Ecology	Document Origin: IRIN News
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org
	Key Words: Uganda, climate change, deforestation
	Summary & Comment: Climate change does not happen in isolation... It interacts with existing problems and challenges - notably deforestation, soil degradation, declining food security, declining fish stocks - and makes them worse. Read about some of the implications for Uganda. AB
4.	An African renaissance in Greenpeace
	Author: Media Release,	Date Written: 19 June 2009
	Primary Category: Ecology	Document Origin: Greenpeace, Pambazuka News 438
	Secondary Category: Africas Image: Profiles	Source URL: http://www.pambazuka.org
	Key Words: Africa, Greenpeace
	Summary & Comment: Greenpeace is pleased to announce the appointment of two prominent African activists to senior positions: Kumi Naidoo as Executive Director of Greenpeace International, and Michelle Ndiaye Ntab as Executive Director of Greenpeace Africa. AB
5.	Uganda could be a desert in 40 years
	Author: afrol staff writer	Date Written: 19 June 2009
	Primary Category: Ecology	Document Origin: afrol News
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.afrol.com
	Key Words: Uganda, deforestation, desertification
	Summary & Comment: A new global report on the environment has warned that Uganda could be a total desert in 40 years if the government fails to protect the country’s forests. Uganda has reportedly lost more than 30 percent of its forest between 1990 and 2005. AB
6.	Climate change action, Who will pay?
	Author: edited by William Minter	Date Written: 18 June 2009
	Primary Category: Ecology	Document Origin: AfricaFocus Bulletin
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL:
	Key Words: Climate change, action,
	Summary & Comment: This AfricaFocus Bulletin contains a briefing note based on the full Stamp Out Poverty report entitled "Assessing the Alternatives: Financing climate change mitigation and adaptation in developing countries" http://www.stampoutpoverty.org . This report evaluates the options for new funding mechanisms, and advocates a mix, including a curr . . . [expand]
7.	African weather information network launched
	Author: Media release	Date Written: 18 June 2009
	Primary Category: Ecology	Document Origin: UN News Service
	Secondary Category: Africa General	Source URL: http://www0.un.org
	Key Words: Africa, climate change, weather stations
	Summary & Comment: This media release announces a public-private partnership that will establish 5,000 automatic stations to monitor weather conditions across the continent of Africa. AB

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Pambazuka News :Environment

1. West Africa: Mali consumes 65 million tonnes of wood per year
   Mali consumes 65 million tonnes of wood per year, which represents 90% of the country's energy consumption, according to the Malian government. Despite the adoption of a national programme for the increase in the use of butane gas and the Domestic En...
2. East Africa: Uganda starves its soils
   Efforts to guard Uganda against looming food insecurity are held back by government’s failure to encourage and sensitize farmers on what specific fertilizer types to use in order to rejuvenate the increasingly less fruitful soils. Scientists warn tha...
3. Rwanda: Water rationing warning as drought bites
   Electrogaz, Rwanda's public utility, is considering water rationing due to shortages caused by a prolonged drought in parts of the country, officials said. Environmental specialists blame the drought on climate change, with erratic rainfall and frequ...
4. Liberia: World Bank approves $3.5 million climate change fund
   The World Bank has approved US$3.5 million for Liberia for its Costal Defense programme which will target three cities including Monrovia, the capital City of Liberia and two other major cities in the country, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA...
5. DRC: Alternative fuel saves fuel and trees
   Banana peels, sugar cane and manioc are widely found in the trash piles that collect outside of homes in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. They're also the ingredients being used by environmental advocates to create a light, inexpensive cooki...

IPS Inter Press Service - Africa

1. DEVELOPMENT-KENYA: Fears Over New Land Deal
   NAIROBI, Jul 4 (IPS) - Concern is mounting in Kenya that the government has leased a big slice of agricultural land to the Qatari foreign investors to produce food for export.
2. AGRICULTURE: Biotechnology: Africa Must Not Be Left Behind
   KAMPALA, Jul 3 (IPS) - Africa must embrace agricultural biotechnology or risk being excluded from a major technological revolution that has had increased food production in the Europe, North America and Asia.
3. RIGHTS-AFRICA: AU Heeds Perpetrators Not Victims
   Sirte, LIBYA, Jul 3 (IPS) - The final day of the African Union summit has been dedicated to the issue of the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, charged with seven counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, rape and torture.
4. POLITICS-BOTSWANA: Parties Block Women Candidates for Upcoming Elections
   GABORONE, Jul 3 (IPS) - As Botswana prepares for general elections in October, gender activists are protesting against the lack of female parliamentary candidates.
5. AFRICA: Civil Society to AU: Investment Must Address Marginalisation
   Sirte, LIBYA, CAPE TOWN and NAIROBI, Jul 3 (IPS) - No gathering hosted by Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi is ever dull, and the Thirteenth Ordinary Session of the African Union, concluding in Sirte, Libya today has not disappointed.