Archive for October, 2006

Cotton subsidies hamper trade relations

(October 24th, 2006)

The WTO made U.S. cotton subsidies illegal two years ago, but American farmers are still getting checks. African nations aren’t happy about the imbalance and that’s cooling wider trade talks. Gretchen Wilson reports.

Photo: Thobeka Koyana makes her living selling traditional clothing, mostly from local cotton, in Johannesburg’s Rosebank Market.

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stories   audio   Marketplace   agriculture   WTO

Fleeing war, Somalis are targets of violence in adopted home

(October 10th, 2006)

MASIPHUMELELE, 10 October 2006 (IRIN) - Dozens of Somalis have allegedly been killed in South Africa’s Western Cape Province in the past few months in what appears to be an escalating campaign of xenophobic violence.

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stories   writing   refugees   South Africa   IRIN