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SA Scorpion boss to head World Bank unit

THE head of South Africa's Scorpions crime-fighting unit, Leonard McCarthy, has been appointed to head the World Bank's anti-corruption unit.

South Africa land reform in dire straits

SOUTH Africa's land reform programme is in dire straits and there is no chance of reaching a 2008 deadline to complete the restitution process, said a report released by a think tank.

Report: Ethiopia and the world food crisis

FARMERS in Ethiopia are better off now than they were four years ago, in part due to better-than-average rains and rising grain prices globally. But there's another reason: Africa's largest beneficiary of foreign aid has shifted from food aid to cash assistance.

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