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1. MADAGASCAR: Cyclones, reduced aid compound malnutrition
2. LESOTHO: Food security goes from bad to worse
3. LESOTHO: Traffickers prey on desperate job seekers
4. SWAZILAND: Teachers' strike highlights crumbling education system
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MADAGASCAR: Cyclones, reduced aid compound malnutrition
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BRICKAVILLE, 26 June 2012 (IRIN) - The eastern Madagascan coastal town
of Brickaville in Atsinanana region - ravaged by Cyclone Giovanna
earlier this year - provided a refuge of sorts for Edwige Solo and her
emaciated children fleeing the aftermath of rural devastation caused by
the same storm.
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LESOTHO: Food security goes from bad to worse
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MOHALE'S HOEK, 26 June 2012 (IRIN) - Initial estimates of the damage to
Lesotho's already ailing agricultural sector - caused by a year of too
much rain followed by a year of too little - suggest that an
unprecedented number of small-scale farmers harvested nothing this year.
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LESOTHO: Traffickers prey on desperate job seekers
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QUTHING, 28 June 2012 (IRIN) - At the age of 15 and with no money for
school shoes or a uniform, Linda* was forced to accept that her
education was over and it was time to look for a job. In Lesotho's
southern Quthing District, where she lived, it is accepted wisdom that
finding a job means crossing the border into South Africa, which
completely surrounds this mountainous kingdom of 1.8 million people and
dwarfs its tiny economy.
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SWAZILAND: Teachers' strike highlights crumbling education system
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MBABANE, 28 June 2012 (IRIN) - A strike called by Swaziland's largest
teachers' union demanding a below-inflation salary increase is
beginning to spread across the country - after the government refused
to entertain any wage demands - and has led to sporadic clashes and
arrests.
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