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Drugs for Sale

We buy cheap bootleg DVDs and fake Coach purses from random street vendors with little hesitation. But what about buying your daily medication from them, too?

Green Revolutions aren't easy. Photo: Thatcher Cook for Mercy Corps

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Bring on the Revolution?

Some at the UN Food Summit are suggesting a second green revolution is needed to curb soaring food prices.

Photo: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/hob/199546789/">Rob McDougall (flickr)</a>

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Africa's Energy Shortfall

Access to cheap energy underpins modern societies. Finding enough to fuel industrialized economies and pull developing countries out of poverty without overheating the climate is a central challenge of the 21st century.

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From Migrant to Migration Expert

To some the word "immigration" evokes an image of people standing in line at Western Union, waiting to wire money home to families for groceries and clothing. It happens thousands of times each day all over the world.

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The Next Green Revolution

A controversial article in a recent Economist refers to further evidence of the advantages of genetically modified crops (GMOs).

Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnmphoto/2278645728">JohnMMM (Flickr)</a>

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Ghana: Optimistic About Oil

Typically, the discovery of “black gold” in African countries has led to conflict over land and overwhelms governments with more revenue than can be effectively managed.

Robert Mugabe with First Lady, Grace Mugabe. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/53911892@N00/465156072/">Pan-African News Wire</a>

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Mugabe an Economic Liability

What happens when a dictator can't afford to pay the people who have ensured his rise to power? It looks like Zimbabwe's strong-man, Robert Mugabe, may be about to find out.

According to Time Magazine;

Malaria patient. Photo: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ashclements/28164958/">Ashley Jonathan Clements (flickr) </a>

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Neglected Tropical Diseases – Easy to Treat, but Not Glamorous

Josh Ruxin, a community health expert who has spent the last several years living in Rwanda, explains that while the majority of tropical diseases seem archaic and too complex to think about for the average person, trachoma, river blindness, hookworm and the like are devastating over a billion pe

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Possible Breakup of World's Oldest Customs Union

Today's Business Week reports that a disagreement between the EU and South Africa is threatening the unity of the Southern African Customs Union, the world's oldest customs union.

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The Future of the Internet in the Developing World

Want to know a surprising statistic? Approximately 3 billion people (about half the world's population) own cell phones. Even more surprising? More than half of those subscribers live in poor countries.

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Using Vegetables to Fight Poverty

This article is a great example of female entrepreneurship in impoverished communities. Helen Kilbey of allAfrica.com shows us another side of Africa we don't always hear about.

Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewheavens/100063338/"> Andrew Heavens (flickr) </a>

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Water Wars

One of the more critical and less talked about environmental changes occurring right now in several regions of the world, is a developing shortage of water.

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Bush in Africa: A Continent Adrift

The author analyzes the relations of the US with a handful of African nations. These countries play a critical role as possible pivot points for progress on the continent.

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Business is Key to Solving Africa's Public Health Problems

Want to know the hot gossip in a small Rwandan village? It's not the latest developments in AIDS treatments. Instead, it's the recent $2000 foreign order for coasters and place mats.

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