SOMALIA: U.S. Should Accept Islamist Authority, Report Says
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Charles Fromm and Mohammed A. Salih
WASHINGTON, Mar 11 (IPS) – The United States should accept an ”Islamist authority” in Somalia as part of a ”constructive disengagement” strategy for the war-torn country, according to a new report released here by the influential Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) on Wednesday. [...]
TANZANIA: Weather Changes Turn Farming into Gamble with Nature
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Denis Gathanju
DAR-ES-SALAAM, Mar 10 (IPS) – Changes in weather patterns have turned agriculture into a gamble with nature for Tanzanian farmers. Prolonged droughts and floods have made the lives of small-scale farmers, who don’t have access to irrigation, extremely difficult.
In Tanzania, where the economy is largely driven [...]
RIGHTS: Africa’s Success Stories in Gender Empowerment
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Thalif Deen* – IPS/TerraViva
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 10 (IPS) – Whenever gender empowerment is a vibrant topic of discussion internationally, some of the countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America are invariably singled out for their success stories in politics, education, health care or civil liberties even as Africa [...]
KENYA: New Bill to Improve State Witness Protection, If Passed
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Mary Kiio
NAIROBI, Mar 10 (IPS) – Kenyans affected by the violence that erupted after the country’s disputed presidential elections in 2007 may soon be able to speak out without fear. A new bill will offer better protection to state witnesses.
The Witness Protection (Amendment) Bill 2010, if passed [...]
ENVIRONMENT-UGANDA: Landslides and floods – Experts Warn Worst is Yet to Come
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Joshua Kyalimpa
KAMPALA, Mar 9 (IPS) – Fourteen-year-old Isaac Wadyegere of Bundesi village in Bududa district woke up to a rainy and chilly Monday morning and went to school as usual.
But Mar. 1 was not a usual day in Bududa district in eastern Uganda. When he [...]
Green Energy The Only Non-Exploited Resource In Africa
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By Babukar Kashka
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NAIROBI (IDN) – Paradoxically, Africa — the continent most exploited by giant corporations that plunder its natural resources, and the one which contributes the least to global warming — is now urged to further produce green energy and implement more climate-friendly projects.
In fact, a Nairobi-based UN Environment [...]
UGANDA: Pressure Mounts to Make Public Oil Agreements
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Joshua Kyalimpa
KAMPALA, Mar 4 (IPS) – Uganda’s members of parliament (MPs) are pressurising government to make public details of oil production-sharing agreements it signed with various international oil companies.
MP’s are pushing for the documents to be made public to enable parliament to scrutinise agreements over the production [...]
DR-CONGO: EU Urged to Ban ‘Conflict Minerals’
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Ida Karlsson
STOCKHOLM, Mar 4 (IPS) – After the United States senate’s move to stem the flow of money from mineral mines fuelling the brutal civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the watchdog group Global Witness (GW) is calling on Europe to follow suit.
”We are [...]
ZIMBABWE: Water Scarcity No Obstacle To Bulawayo Farmers
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Busani Bafana
BULAWAYO, Jan 22 (IPS) – A project in Zimbabwe’s second city, Bulawayo, is creatively using ”marginal water” to ease water scarcity while helping residents provide food and earn a living.
Water scarcity has led urban farmers to turn to treated waste water to grow food within the [...]
POLITICS-UGANDA: Sharing the National Cake
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Evelyn Matsamura Kiapi
KAMPALA, Jan 22 (IPS) – Their caricatures show great wealth and status, being driven in flashy four-wheel drives surrounded by bodyguards, and receiving benefits including mansions, cars, medical care and travel and sitting allowances. They are treated as Very Important Persons.
They are not powerful business [...]
GUINEA: Transition Plan Agreed
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Saliou Samb
CONAKRY, Jan 21 (IPS) – General Sékouba Konaté, head of Guinea’s military junta since the assassination attempt on Captain Moussa Dadis Camara in December has returned from a week of meetings in Burkina Faso bearing a blueprint for a return Guinea to democratic rule and constitutional order. [...]
SOUTH SUDAN: Changing of the Guard
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Skye Wheeler
TORIT, south Sudan, Jan 20 (IPS) – An old rite is long overdue in Paul Yugusak Tombe’s home village, in Central Equatoria State, south Sudan.
Because of Sudan’s long and painful north-south war that scattered much of the population, Tombe’s age set that won power in a [...]
RIGHTS: Sick and Hungry? Fill In This Form!
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BY BABUKAR KASHKA
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NAIROBI (IDN) – You may righty complain of having to go through bureaucratic paperwork and wait in long queues before getting a permission to – say — paint a wall with your favourite colour. Well, multiply your situation by 100,000 and [...]
KENYA: Deportation Protest Leads to Widespread Arrests
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Susan Anyangu-Amu
NAIROBI, Jan 19 (IPS) – Organisers of a protest march against the expulsion of Muslim cleric Sheikh Abdullah El Faisal say Kenyan police have arrested up to 400 people and are interrogating them to prove their nationality and try to uncover links to terrorism.
A Jan. 16 [...]
GHANA: Quietly Extending Options to Women
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By Elana Roth*
ACCRA, Jan 19, 2010 (IPS) – Juliana Kweais has a small scar on her bottom lip, from the first time she witnessed an abortion. The sharp blow to her mouth was delivered by her grandmother, after the then-13-year-old Kweais had asked why her auntie had given [...]
SOUTH SUDAN: Tension Builds as Peace Agreement Marks Anniversary
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Analysis by Moyiga Nduru
JUBA, South Sudan, Jan 19 (IPS) – Sudan is at a crossroads. Its future looks grim. ”Only a miracle can save it from disintegrating. The signs are already on the wall,” says Khamis Lako, a petty trader in Juba, the capital of South Sudan.
It’s [...]
