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Articles published since 1 September 2006

Lesotho
LESOTHO CORRUPTION CASE A WATERSHED FOR CORRUPT OFFICIALS AND
BRIBE-PAYING CORPORATIONS
Lesotho has tackled corruption in the multi-billion-rand Lesotho
Highlands Water Scheme head on and prosecuted corrupt officials and
bribe-paying corporations. Corporations can be held to account for
criminal behaviour in Lesotho. To second-guess the African bench and
paint it with the uniform brush of "corruption" is inaccurate and
offensive. The World Bank and the home countries of the corporations
implicated in corruption in the Lesotho Highlands Water Scheme gave no
support at all to Lesotho in its efforts to tackle corruption.
http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_10781.html

Zambia
CHINA'S GROWING ROLE
China's ascendance as a global economic superpower obviously poses a
threat to what the author calls "the culture of domination by the
economically strong [West]". African countries might choose to
associate with China not only because it produces more affordable
goods, but because of cultural similarities and a sense of humility
quite opposite from Western self-congratulation. While the risk
remains that China, too, could become an economic and political
colonizer, Chinese assistance to Zambia has so far come with no
strings attached. This experience can serve as an example for a new
direction in human relations worldwide.
http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_10782.html

East Africa
 MORE FUNDS NEEDED TO ENSURE PEACE IN DRC, UGANDA - EGELAND
While peace has suddenly become distinctly attainable in Uganda, the
Democratic Republic of Congo, and other African nations, the
international community will need to help the process along with an
infusion of funds, Jan Egeland said Tuesday at the conclusion of an
eight-day peace tour through the continent.
http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_10783.html

Africa
APOLOGY NO CURE-ALL FOR AFRICA''S ILLS
A delegation of Christian leaders from Britain, Germany, France,
Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands and the United States of America to
Zimbabwe last week asked for forgiveness for sins committed by their
ancestors against Africa but did not enunciate any meaningful
initiatives tailored to address current pressing African needs such as
poverty alleviation, AIDS, education and health issues and prevent a
recurrence the very injustices and atrocities committed by their
forebears. The churchmen have chosen to ignore the fact that an
apology for sins committed a century ago means absolutely nothing to
oppressed, displaced, diseased, impoverished and starving Africans who
are unnecessarily subjected to these ills by erstwhile liberation
heroes who spearheaded the fight for independence from colonial rule.
http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_10780.html

Botswana
TRUE MEN TO FIGHT HIV/AIDS
In northern Botswana True Men get together to reduce the number of
HIV/AIDS infections. They do not discriminate against anyone and share
with others what they know about HIV/AIDS and what could be done.
Going for HIV testing, passion killings, abuse of women, how to change
their behaviour toward partners and alcohol and Setswana sayings such
as "a man is supposed to be shared" are topics to work out together.
http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_10777.html

Nigeria
DOMESTIC WORKERS OR MODERN DAY SLAVES?
Human traffickers make good business taking poorly educated girls
from Nigerian villages to toil as domestic workers in the sprawling
urban throb of Lagos. But the girls, some as young as five years old,
see little or none of their earnings.
http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_10778.html

Kenya
SLUM RESIDENTS TO HOLD PARALLEL AFRICITIES SUMMIT
http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_10779.html

Sudan
JOURNALISTS CONDEMN EDITOR'S KILLING
http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_10776.html

Peace efforts
AFRICA PEACE POINT TO HOST INTERNATIONAL PEACE RALLY
http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_10775.html

Zimbabwe
RETHINKING FAST-TRACK LAND REFORM
http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_10774.html

Ecology
INTERVIEW: WANGARI MAATHAI ON DEVELOPMENT, THE ENVIRONMENT AND
GLOBALIZATION
Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement, is interviewed
about the effects of globalization, debt cancellation, deforestation
and multi-national corporarions have on the environment. How poverty
affects deforestation, the role of multinational corporations, the
commitment to justice by the leadership, and role of the African
Diaspora are also included.
http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_10772.html

Kenya
WIDOWS WHO REFUSE TO BE INHERITED CARE FOR ORPHANS
http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_10771.html

Nigeria
GOVERNMENT CRACKS DOWN ON BIAFRA SEPARATIST RESURGENCE
More than three decades ago Onitsha and the bridge across the Niger
were key battlegrounds as Nigeria fought a bloody civil war to prevent
the attempted secession of the Republic of Biafra by the region's
mainly ethnic Igbos. Now Onitsha is once more at the centre of the
latest attempt to resuscitate the Biafra cause.
http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_10770.html

Burundi
NO HELP YET FOR 1,500 HOMELESS FLOOD VICTIMS
http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_10769.html