IPS Africa is excited to announce the launch of two mini-sites. The first one, From Polls to Polls, is part of the Women and Elections in Africa project. This site will carry news and resources about women and elections in Africa. The second mini-site is the Southern Africa Water Wire which provides in-depth coverage of water and related issues in SADC. While focusing on SADC, the site will also link to water news in Africa and globally. A part-time editor, Steve Lang has been hired in Johannesburg to work on the project.

IPS has started publishing this month stories from Africa and Europe for the Trade & Finance Africa series.
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IPS has started to implement a new project in partnership with the Global Subsidies Initiative on subsidies and biofuels. This series will go on in the next few months.
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Against the expectations of many, on January 25th, thousands of participants flooded Kasarani, the Nairobi sports complex were the World Social Forum 2007 was held. Dozens of stands, two huge news rooms, restaurants, meeting tents were erected in a rush of hectic activity.
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IPS worked hard towards providing full media coverage of the 2007 World Social Forum, held in Nairobi on 20-25 January 2007.
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