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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. MORE >>
ZIMBABWE: Numerous Challenges For Harare Water Supply By Vusumuzi Sifile HARARE - Harare mayor Muchadeyi Masunda is a troubled man. When he took office in July 2008, one of his most immediate tasks was to resolve the water crisis in the capital. MORE >>
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. MORE >>
CLIMATE CHANGE: Carbon Trading Welcomed, Criticised By Jessie Boylan NIASSA PROVINCE, Mozambique - A visit from Dutch contractors to Niassa Province, in northwestern Mozambique has got communities excited about the prospect of a carbon credit scheme in the area. MORE >>
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. MORE >>
ZIMBABWE: Far From the City’s Money, Villagers Barter Again By Stanley Kwenda CHITSA, Zimbabwe - In Chitsa, a village with some 2,000 inhabitants located about 250 km from Zimbabwe’s capital of Harare, it has become difficult to conduct everyday transactions involving money. MORE >>
MOZAMBIQUE: Quiet Progress Against HIV/AIDS By Jessie Boylan COBUE, Mozambique - When Dorothy Kakongwe smiles, her creases tell stories no history book can recount. This elderly nurse can reflect on numerous changes in the landscape and people around her. MORE >>
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. MORE >>
ZAMBIA: Give Us Our Constitution By Kelvin Kachingwe LUSAKA - Pressure is mounting for a new constitution that is inclusive of all citizens' views as the ongoing delays by the body granted to draft it still continues. MORE >>
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. MORE >>
SOUTH AFRICA: GMOs - Strategic Priority in Whose Interest? By Kristin Palitza CAPE TOWN - The South African government is in the process of drafting regulations to police genetically modified organisms (GMO) as part of the national Consumer Protection Act, but environmental experts are worried the GMO section of the new Act, which was signed into law last April, will not be put into practice. MORE >>
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