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/ARTS WEEKLY/MUSIC-ZIMBABWE/: Gov’t Stifles Critical Voices in the Media
No sooner had it made its debut in May that musician Leonard Zhakata's latest album disappeared from the airwaves.DEVELOPMENT: EU Takes Advantage of Africa’s Weakness to Impose Conditions
The European Union is taking advantage of Africa's weak bargaining power to bloat the list of conditions - attached to development aid - with further demands.DEVELOPMENT-AFRICA: Leaders Appeal for Talks Not War
If Africa is to advance economically and socially, sincere dialoguing must replace armed conflict, strikes and dirty politics, delegates at a heads of state summit held in Swaziland this week agreed.CULTURE-KENYA: Award Winning Writer is Obsessed with Writing
She is so artistic, so poetic, that every sentence she jots accentuates her creativity and passion for writing.CULTURE-TANZANIA: African Women Called on to Stop Embracing Poverty
Women in Africa have to rise up to the challenge of developing positive attitudes as a key factor to advancing themselves, as well as attaining sustainable socio and economic development of the continent.RIGHTS-KENYA: Torture Victims Seek Redress
Most of them were picked up at night by the dreaded secret police, driven to a torture chamber and after weeks or months of interrogation and torture, were set free.POLITICS-AFRICA: President-for-life Syndrome
Africans are fighting a new war: president-for-life syndrome.POLITICS-RWANDA: First Multi-Party Elections Since the 1994 Genocide
Voters in Rwanda go to the polls on Aug. 25 to elect a new president, in the first multi-party elections since the 1994 genocide in which up to 800,000 Rwandese were slaughtered by Hutu militias, known as interahamwe, or those who fight together./WTO-CANCUN/AFRICA: Farm Subsidies High On the Agenda
Farmers in sub-Saharan Africa could earn about two billion U.S. dollars more every year if industrialised countries dropped their trade-distorting agricultural policies and opened their markets to goods from the developing world, says the International Food Policy Research Institute./ARTS WEEKLY-THEATRE/UGANDA: Inspired by Women
Uganda's celebrated playwright and director, Charles Mulekwa, owes his success to the women who have instilled in him values that have inspired his writings.RELIGION: Gay Controversy Spreads to Other Churches
The controversy surrounding the Anglican Church over homosexuality appears to be spreading to other churches.RIGHTS: Child Slave Rings Rife in Southern Africa
Trade in children, literally slave trading in infants to teenagers, has been a problem that African law enforcement officials thought was mostly confined to the western part of the continent.RELIGION: Gay Debate Splits Africa
The Anglican Church in Central Africa is threatening to cut ties with America over a decision by the church in the United States to confirm a gay bishop.TRADE-AFRICA: Growth Depends on Access to Market, Not Aid
As the next round of trade talks gets underway in Cancun, Mexico next month, it has emerged that Africa would benefit far more from the better access to the European Union and the United States markets than it does from aid.POLITICS-SUDAN: Church Asks Mediators to Ensure Lasting Peace
The church has appealed to the mediators of Sudanese peace talks not to abandon the process even after a final deal is signed in August or later this year.CULTURE-TANZANIA: Breaking the Culture of Silence
Antonia Kilegu, 30, looks like a healthy young woman. But when she told a press conference in the Tanzanian commercial city of Dar Es Salaam that she was living positively with the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS many people, including her own relatives, were horrified.POLITICS: Ugandans Seem Ready to Forgive Amin for Mass Murders
Carolyne Nakazibwe, 28, has never known fatherly love. She was only two when her father 'disappeared'. He walked out of the house one morning and never returned. Nobody saw, or heard from, him again.POLITICS-EAST AFRICA: Plans Underway to Create Peaceful Region
Countries of the Great Lakes region, the African Union and United Nations, have come together to work out a long-term strategy to promote peace in the region.RIGHTS-KENYA: Tales of Rape, Sodomy by British Soldiers
Some have remained silent for 30 years. But now the Samburu and Masaai women, as well as their young men, are coming forward to tell their stories: how they were raped and sodomised by British soldiers on manoeuvres in northern Kenya.CULTURE-TANZANIA: Activists Challenge Gender Inequality As Women Marry Women
-Tanzania still has a long way to go in achieving gender equality and cultures in some communities continue to force women to "marry" another woman in order to bear a son for inheritance purposes.ECONOMY: DR Congo, Angola to Resume Trade after 30 Years
The end of hostilities in Angola has opened a window of opportunity for Congolese businesspeople seeking to resume trade with their neighbour, after 30 years.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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