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AFRICA: We Are the Government
By Jessie Boylan
LAGO DISTRICT, Mozambique - As if they were going to the races, Emma Musako and Monica Mhango showed up in their finest outfits to attend a meeting on the health, social and environmental impacts of uranium mining. They came because they, like the other attendees, no longer want to remain uninformed citizens.
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LESOTHO: AIDS Orphans get Helping Hand
By Letuka Mahe
MASERU - Fifteen-year-old Ntsebeng Tlokotsi* sighs with relief as she is given 140 dollars. Along with it she receives a bag of maize meal and cooking oil. It is a government handout, and she qualifies for this only because both her parents are dead.
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RIGHTS-MALAWI: Blame Game While Children Suffer
By Charles Mpaka
LIMBE, Malawi - Every morning 12-year-old Thomson Genti and his seven-year-old brother, Chifundo, emerge dirty and wretched from the squalor of their hideout behind the crowded shops in the commercial town of Limbe. It is the start of a day of begging, beatings from the older street boys and insults from passers-by.
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POLITICS-MOZAMBIQUE: Another Term for Incumbent President?
By Zenaida Machado
MAPUTO - Mozambique’s incumbent president looks set to serve a second term of office as partial results of the country’s presidential, parliamentary and provincial elections are announced.
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SWAZILAND: More Boreholes, No Water
By Mantoe Phakathi
MBABANE - In the drought-stricken area of Siteki, Tibuyile Maziya has been trying to fill up her four 20-litre buckets with water at a community for the last four hours. With a baby on her back and two more buckets to fill up, 19-year-old Maziya says she walks to this well at least three times a week to get water for her family of 15.
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AFRICA: Lost in the Tracking of Budgets
By Charles Mpaka
BLANTYRE - As Susan Muonanji and other vendors scrambled around one of the many transport busses to sell cabbages and tomatoes at a market along one of Malawi’s key roads, a national budget session had just started in parliament some 100 kilometres away in the capital city, Lilongwe.
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MOZAMBIQUE: Watching the Water Flow Away
By Zenaida Machado
MAPUTO - Less than 100 kilometres from the second-largest dam in Africa, women walk with their babies strapped on their back, water pails balanced on their heads.
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AGRICULTURE-ZIMBABWE: "The Rule of Law Just Isn’t There"
By Stanley Kwenda
HARARE - Agriculture used to be Zimbabwe’s economic mainstay but it has been on the decline since 2000 when the ZANU-PF government embarked on a so-called land reform programme that resulted in about 4,000 productive white farmers losing their farms, many to members of the politically connected elite.
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RIGHTS: Police Force HIV Tests for Sex Workers
By Charles Mpaka
LILONGWE - It was, Malawian police say, a routine sweep for criminals at one of the country’s busiest border posts. They were looking for criminals.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Lack of Clean Groundwater a Health Threat
By Ignatius Banda
BULAWAYO - As the rainy season approaches, and sewage from pit latrines seep further into the Zimbabwe's groundwater, Irene Ngubeni will be at risk as the country faces another possible cholera outbreak.
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SOUTH AFRICA: We Have Land Rights but No Water Rights - Farmers
By Fidelis Zvomuya
JOHANNESBURG - Thandi Sihadi stands next to a dry tap. As a maize and dairy farmer in one of South Africa’s driest districts, the lack of running water is nothing new to her.
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