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KENYA Walking Metres Rather Than Kilometres to Fetch Water By Protus Onyango NAIROBI - The acute lack of water in Kenya means families have to trek long distances every day to fetch water. In both rural and urban areas, people often walk as far as 30 kilometres or more to collect water from rivers, streams or wells. But thanks to self-help projects backed by NGOs, some communities are coming up with solutions. MORE >>
ISRAEL Eritreans Flee From Dictatorship to Detention By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours TEL AVIV - Standing across the street from the American embassy in Tel Aviv, more than 200 Eritrean asylum seekers chanted "Yes to justice! Yes to humanity!", and demanded international intervention to stop torture camps in the Egyptian Sinai. Protests by African asylum seekers in Israel are growing, in the face of increasingly tough policies by the Israelis. MORE >>
AFRICA Wanted: Greener Cities By Kristin Palitza CAPE TOWN - In Africa, where urbanisation will be one of the major developments over the next few decades, it will be key for cities to figure out how to handle rapid urban expansion and much-needed economic growth, while creating more environmentally-friendly cities and reducing their carbon footprint at the same time. MORE >>
Cornered in Free Libya By Karlos Zurutuza TRIPOLI - "We’ve walked all the way here to tell everybody that we are being treated like dogs," said 23-year old Hamuda Bubakar, among a couple of hundred black refugees protesting at Martyrs Square in Tripoli. "I’d rather be killed here. I wouldn’t be the first, or the last." MORE >>
MALAWI No Social Safety Nets for the Poor By Travis Lupick and Archibald Kasakura BLANTYRE - In Mbedza village, a remote rural community in southern Malawi, Fedson Feston beams an infant’s awkward smile and swings his tiny arms up towards the face of his mother. Four months old, Fedson is too young to know how lucky he is to be alive. MORE >>
Brazil's Health System Inspires Abroad, Frustrates at Home By Mario Osava* RIO DE JANEIRO - News that the government of South Africa was inspired by Brazil's health system in setting up its own universal coverage scheme might meet with scepticism in this South American country. MORE >>
Libya's "Other" Victims By Karlos Zurutuza BANI WALID, Libya - Suleyman and Rasool have come to the University of Bani Walid, in western Libya. If they are lucky they might find some chemistry notes and, perhaps, a computer that works. Unfortunately it is not likely, since NATO reduced the campus to rubble. MORE >>
UNESCO Study Reveals Widening Secondary Education Gap By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS - Arguing that an educated population is a country's greatest wealth, the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) says there is no escape from poverty without a vast expansion of secondary education worldwide. MORE >>
Looking to the Sahel for Lessons in Pushing Back Deserts By Stephen Leahy CHANGWON, South Korea - Nearly all our food comes from the Earth's limited food- producing lands, but those lands continue to be degraded, guaranteeing far higher food prices and less food in the future, experts warn. MORE >>
NAMIBIA German Extermination Marginalised Ethnic Groups By Servaas van den Bosch WINDHOEK - Over 100 years after the attempted extermination of Namibia’s indigenous men, women and children, 20 of the 300 skulls that had been stolen for racial research have finally returned home from Germany. MORE >>
BRAZIL African Refugees in the Amazon By Fabíola Ortiz RIO DE JANEIRO - Wilson Nicolas, from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was the first African refugee to find his way to Brazil's Amazon jungle region, and seems to have started a trend. MORE >>
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