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POLITICS-BOTSWANA: Parties Block Women Candidates for Upcoming Elections By Ephraim Nsingo GABORONE - As Botswana prepares for general elections in October, gender activists are protesting against the lack of female parliamentary candidates. MORE >>
ZIMBABWE: 'Money Comes First, Health Second' By Phyllis Kachere HARARE - With half her body immersed in a muddy red pond, Esther Nyarambi closely inspects the contents of her wooden panning dish, locally known as zamba. Having spent the entire day pounding gold-bearing rock, she hopes her efforts will be rewarded with even the smallest nugget of gold. MORE >>
SOUTH AFRICA: Young, Educated and Unemployed By Miriam Mannak CAPE TOWN - Unemployment among young South Africans is hovering at 30 percent, shooting up to over 60 percent for youths in their late teens and early twenties. But tertiary education and skills development seem not to be making much of a dent in what is now regarded as a crisis. MORE >>
POVERTY-MAURITIUS: Labouring Through a Class Four Cyclone By Nasseem Ackbarally PORT-LOUIS - Thousands of workers in the textile and manufacturing industry in Mauritius have been forced into unemployment and poverty within the last few months, as factories announced multiple rounds of job cuts due to the global financial crisis. MORE >>
ENVIRONMENT-MALAWI: Elephants Out of Harm's Way By Charles Mkoka* - IPS/IFEJ LILONGWE - A South African capture team has almost completed the translocation of a herd of elephants from the Phirilongwe forest reserve located in a communal management area in southern Malawi. MORE >>
ECONOMY-ZAMBIA: Hard Times on the Copperbelt By Kelvin Kachingwe Luanshya, ZAMBIA - Nowhere in Zambia is the impact of the global financial crisis being felt harder than in the copper and cobalt-rich province of the Copperbelt. MORE >>
RIGHTS-NAMIBIA: 'Cut, Cut Again and Now Tie Tightly' By Servaas van den Bosch WINDHOEK - Anna Shikongo* wanted many more children, but five-month old Johannes, perched on her lap, will forever be her lastborn. She was sterilised by doctors at a government hospital. Now she is ready to take the government to court. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT-ZIMBABWE: Investor Absence Fuels Retrenchments By Ignatius Banda BULAWAYO - Forty-year-old Thelma Dube was this month told by her long-time employer to stay home. She will be called back to work when business picks up. Her husband got the same instruction, as did hundreds of other workers at the company Textile Mills in Zimbabwe’s second largest city. MORE >>
HEALTH-SOUTHERN AFRICA: AIDS Relief: 'We Might Have to Be More Selective' Servaas van den Bosch interviews THOMAS WALSH, PEPFAR coordinator WINDHOEK - What started as a multi-billion dollar tsunami against HIV/AIDS during the presidency of George W. Bush has trickled down to a carefully channelled stream of funding under president Barack Obama. Instead of the additional billion dollars a year promised for AIDS funding, Congress approved a meagre $165 million increase for 2010. MORE >>
RIGHTS-SOUTH AFRICA: Xenophobia Still Smouldering By Mandisi Majavu CAPE TOWN - "My worry is that my children are going to be slaves because they won't have anything. These foreign people come to South Africa with nothing, but tomorrow he has cash, third day he owns a shop and fourth day he has a car. Where do these foreign people get this money?" MORE >>
Q&A: 'The Cake is Not Enough' Mandisi Majavu interviews GERALD MOOI, Gugulethu spaza shop owner CAPE TOWN - Gerald Mooi owns a business renting out pool tables for functions across the city of Cape Town area. MORE >>
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