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Kenyan Pastoralists Get Sh7.7 Billion World Bank Support

By: Kiarie Njoroge

Date: August 1st 2016

Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Nation


Pastoralists are set to benefit from a Sh7.7 billion World Bank loan expected to ease losses related to drought and disease.


The financing is expected to cater for a range of activities including water provision, re-seeding of rangelands, animal vaccination and storing fodder to ensure increased yields for about 93,000 pastoralist households.


Malawi: 'New Land Laws to Empower Chiefs, People '

By: Malawi News Agency

Date: August 1st 2016

Source: AllAfrica.com / Malawi News Agency


The recent budget sitting passed land administration related bills which have raised controversy and at times outright misinformation. The Minister of Information, Communications Technology and Civic Education, PATRICIA KALIATI, provides some insights into the pieces of legislation and other related matters.


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China's Rapid Urbanization Blamed for Most Devastating Flood of the Decade

By: Erika Villanueva-Miranda 

Date: July 31st 2016

Source: Yibada


China rapid urbanization is now blamed for the country's most devastating flood in history.


The recent calamity that brought China to its knees with a hefty $44.7 billion damage cost is partly caused by the country's "ruthless" urbanization for the past years, an analysis from Forbes revealed.


Property rights for world's poor could unlock trillions in 'dead capital': economist

By: Chris Arsenault

Date: August 1st 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation


RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When it comes to alleviating poverty and allowing people to live up to their potential, prize-winning Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto divides the world into two groups: the ones who have defined property rights and those who do not.


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