4540 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/press/accelerate-growth-emerging-markets,1735213.htmlPITTSBURGH - (Business Wire) H.J. Heinz Company (NYSE:HNZ) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of an 80% stake in Coniexpress S.A. Industrias Alimenticias, a leading Brazilian manufacturer of the Quero brand of tomato-based sauces, tomato paste, ketchup, condiments and vegetables.Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:10:00 +0200earthtimes-26203328be2b43323cd426e9ee96144620110401181000http://www.fahamu.org/images/empowers_report_0311.pdfSeries II: China and Other Emerging Powers in Africa 2011-03-31 The Emerging Powers in Africa Initiative commissioned four research policy reports in June 2010 following the successful completion of the first round of commissioned reports that was undertaken in 2009, culminating in an electronic publication available on the Fahamu website. Understanding that attention towards China’s deepening engagement with Africa should not overshadow the activities of other emerging powers in Africa, including India, Russia, Brazil and South Africa, the four research policy reports sought to develop an African perspective by strengthening the civil society voice in the discourse surrounding the engagement between Africa and these emerging powers. To this end, the research projects were themed around comparative African perspectives on China and other emerging powers in Africa by providing seed funding to African civil society organisations and activists to undertake research that can contribute to the emerging scholarship on the footprint of the emerging actors in Africa. The completed research reports are available here - http://www.fahamu.org/images/empowers_report_0311.pdf.Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:21:00 +0200pambazuka-d5c123eaba414b4d9f9a147e7b7828c620110331192100http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/SMDL-8FGGBX?OpenDocument&RSS20&RSS20=FSThere remains an urgent and pressing need in Sierra Leone, in the aftermath of the 11-year conflict which claimed more than 50,000 lives, devastated communities and left many more physically and emotionally traumatised.Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:55:00 +0200reliefWeb-latestUpdates-bec84ef34d484ee3682e31f1d78ccd7620110331155500http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/3501660/IN-the-past-month-the-news-has-been-all-bad-but-here-an-academic-puts-it-into-perspective.htmlIN the past month the news has been all bad, but here an academic puts it into perspectiveThu, 31 Mar 2011 04:24:00 +0200thesun-da7bf975dc8d5b37cadc8d39b8891ff920110331042400