My article "Ethiopia's love affair with coffee" is published today in Mail and Guardian's Voices of Africa.Check it out and let me know what you think. Addis Ababa may be the heart of Ethiopia, but coffee is its lifeline. The coffee-drinking ceremony is a daily ritual on the streets and in homes, and it trumps [...]

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This month's .NET meetup will happen on the 29th of May and will focus on Application Lifecycle Management. Application Lifecycle Management is a way of developing and releasing software in a coherent, integrated way, spanning all development phases, artifact types, roles and business units. ALM describes the coordination of development lifecycle disciplines, including the management [...]

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A poll carried out by  www.VoucherCodesPro.co.uk asked 1,112 UK gamers for their opinion on Microsoft's latest console offering as part of research into consumer opinion. The study initially asked...

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The recent governance controversy at JPMorgan Chase has masked a much larger issue. Five years after the largest financial crisis in almost 80 years, one can count the number of properly qualified board members - across all megabanks - on the fingers of one hand.

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Given South Africa's stated commitment to multilingualism, you might not think that a requirement from one of the country's universities that its students learn an indigenous African language would raise much alarm. Yet alarm has nonetheless been the reaction from a few unexpected quarters to the University of KwaZulu-Natal's announcement that all first-year students enrolled [...]

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ONE Arts and Music Blogger Hannah Elansary interviews the ladies behind the Last Song Before the War, a documentary of the Festival au Desert in Mali. As Northern Mali continues to face instability, music serves as a powerful driver of cultural unification.  The riveting feature-length documentary, The Last Song Before the War, captures the importance [...]

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A new era of high and volatile food prices goes beyond affecting what people can afford to eat and is causing life-changing shifts in society, experts warn today. The report, Squeezed: Life in a time of food price volatility, reveals a global snap-shot of how the failure of wages to keep pace with five years [...]

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Oxfam and IDS report looks at hidden social costs of high food prices, including domestic violence, and substance abuse

The high food prices of the past five years have become normal and are now changing people's priorities, says a study of consumers in 10 countries.

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Through partnerships, development professionals can help improve land governance and ensure more enforceable land rights

What elephant lives in your development space? Last week in Cape Town at Grow Africa's Investment Forum, Rwanda's minister of agriculture and animal resources, Agnes Kalibata, called out the elephant she sees in discussions of African agriculture: land rights.

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Guest post by Richard Sexton, business development director of e.surv chartered surveyors

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