Amandla for 09/10/2008

In this edition:

Gwen Shulman presents an exclusive field report on a water project in Malawi. listen

Diana Sharpe analyses the meaning of the recent pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia and the links these may have with the arms trade. listen

Zahra Moloo talks to Karen Keenan from the Halifax Initiative about mining contracts in the Congo. listen

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Amandla for 01/10/2008

Dans cette édition:

entrevue avec Ousmane Samaké de l’ IRPAD (Institut de Recherche et de Promotion des Alternatives en Développement) -MALI). Samaké est responsable du programme Renforcement des capacités et parle de sécurité alimentaire.

IRPAD (Institut de Recherche et de Promotion des Alternatives en Développement), association à but non lucratif et à caractère scientifique et académique, fait la promotion des solutions alternatives de développement, issues de la recherche pour mieux les socialiser avec un plus grand nombre de femmes et d’hommes.

In this edition:

Diana Sharpe presents excerpts of the presentation by Kanayo F. Nwanze, Vice-President, International Fund for Agricultural Development, at the opening of the McGill conference on Global Food Security. And Amandla collaborator Zahra Moloo looks at the situation in Somalia.

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A report on informal settlements in South Africa

A field report By Gwen Shulman

Back in January, I was in Cape Town. My very first impression was its gleaming airport—wallpapered with slick ads promoting South Africa as THE IDEAL investment destination.

But, the very moment you leave the airport, you’re confronted with one of the most flagrant failures of post-apartheid SA. Radiating out from the airport, as far as the eye can see, are sprawling tintowns, informal settlements, shanties, squats…whatever you wish to call them, they translate into 10s of 1000s of people living in the most precarious conditions imaginable.

Today, half of all South Africans live below the poverty line, many well below it. Unemployment hovers at a disastrous 25%.

One of the most searing manifestations of this dispossession is in the area of housing. In Cape Town alone, 1 million people live in 110,000 self-made shacks. And many of them face eviction.

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