Inter Press Service News Agency
The story underneath
Latest News | North Africa | Southern Africa | West Africa | East Africa | Environment | Health | Rights | Economics | Development | Energy | Population
Wednesday, May 16, 2012   20:35 GMT    
East Africa

By NAIROBI
Despite Economic Growth, Food Insecurity Lingers in Africa - Everlyne Wanjiku, a single mother of five, has earned a living selling vegetables in the sprawling Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, for over three decades. And even though her earnings were meagre, she was able to provide all her children with a tertiary education.
MORE >>		 

By NAIROBI
Less Politics, More Economic Development - Economic and social growth have become the heart of the development agenda of the bloc of leading emerging economies known as IBSA (India, Brazil and South Africa) since it began focusing less on politics.
MORE >>		 
Q&A
By BULAWAYO
Women Farmers Are Key to a Food-Secure Africa - While women constitute the majority of food producers, processors and marketers in Africa, their role in the agricultural sector still remains a minor one because of cultural and social barriers.
MORE >>		 
Q&A
By CAPE TOWN, South Africa
Skipping Lunch to Afford a Mobile Phone in Africa - On a continent of over one billion people, where half the population have mobile phones, the use of mobile communication and internet technologies is crucial to boost development in Africa.
MORE >>		 

By JUBA
Disarmament Sparks Violence in South Sudan - Civil society groups are calling on the United Nations peacekeeping mission to withdraw support from a disarmament programme they say could spark further violence in South Sudan’s volatile Jonglei state.
MORE >>		 

By JUBA
Hit by Fighting, Now by Prices - As thousands of people flee the conflict in South Sudan’s northern border states, increasing numbers have also been forced to leave their homes and towns in search of affordable food.
MORE >>		 

By NAIROBI
Kenya "Becoming Economic Heartbeat of Africa" - When Kenya’s newly announced geothermal power generation project comes online, it will turn the East African country into an economic powerhouse in the region.
MORE >>		 

By GENEVA
Intra-African Trade or Global Integration: A Chicken-and-Egg Dilemma? - Though the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has long held that trade between African countries is too low, experts at the South Centre, an inter-governmental think tank of developing countries, say intra-continental trade is already significant in manufactured goods and promises a new path to industrialisation.
MORE >>		 

By HELSINKI
U.S. Patriot Act Kept Somalia Starving - When war-torn Somalia was also ravaged by a drought-induced famine last year, which killed tens of thousands and displaced over a million people, international media was quick to blame the Islamist Al-Shabaab for blocking humanitarian assistance from reaching its zone of control in southern Somalia.
MORE >>		 
Q&A
By CAPE TOWN, South Africa
Increasing Investment Opportunities in Africa - More than three years after the start of the global economic crisis, which has had a considerable impact on African trade, investments and gross domestic product, investment prospects on the continent are increasing.
MORE >>		 

By JUBA
Returning Sudanese Child Soldiers Their Childhood - As the process of reintegrating South Sudan’s child soldiers into their old lives begins soon, the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army renewal of its lapsed commitment to release all child soldiers from its ranks in March could mean that within two years children will no longer constitute part of the country’s militia groups.
MORE >>		 

By BRUSSELS
Tighter Security Ignores Root Causes of Somali Crises - As Western forces step up their military presence in Somalia, locals and experts are worried that the country – struggling under multiple crises from piracy, to drought – is doomed to churn in a cycle of violence that fails to acknowledge root causes of the problems.
MORE >>		 

By GENEVA
The Battle over Development-Led Globalisation - Industrialised countries have mounted an unprecedented campaign to stop the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development from providing policy advice to the poorest countries in Africa and across the globe.
MORE >>		 

By UMOJA, Kenya
Where Men Now Fear to Tread - No man, except for those raised here as children, lives in Umoja village in Kenya; one has not for two decades. It is a village only of and for women, women who have been abused, raped, and forced from their homes.
MORE >>		 

By JUBA
Latrines Critical to Keeping Kids in South Sudan’s Schools - Before Bor B Primary School built latrines on the school grounds two years ago, students would leave during their first break to head home. Most did not come back until the next morning.
MORE >>		 

 

Next >>
Contact Us | About Us | Subscription | News in RSS | Email News | Mobile | Text Only
Copyright © 2012 IPS-Inter Press Service. All rights reserved.