(PANA)--Libyan leader and current chairman of the African Union (AU), Mouammar Kadhafi, has stressed the need for a ‘women’s revolution’ worldwide to correct the false notion of equality between men and women.
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(Africaprogresspanel)--Africa’s potential is often overlooked. Yet the continent abounds in untapped natural and human resources. The United Nations, for example, estimates that there are over 800 million hectares of unused, cultivable land that could provide the basis for a green revolution in food production—land that could be used to tackle food shortages in Africa and in other continents.
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James Suggett (Venezuelanalysis.com)--The chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Gabonese economist and politician Jean Ping, met with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and other government officials in Caracas on Tuesday to prepare for the Africa-South America Summit scheduled to take place in Caracas in the last week of September.
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(IRIN)--Investment in agriculture in developing countries, where most of the workforce consists of small-scale farmers, is akin to beefing up a ‘safety net’ as the world struggles to limit the impact of the economic crisis, a UN agency head told IRIN ahead of the three-day World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Cape Town.
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