Africa
Providing HIV/AIDS treatment and care in countries at peace is hard enough; extending those services to people on the run from conflict or disaster seems, on the face of it, hopelessly complicated.
26 October 2006 - Plusnews
NEPAD ICT Projects
A glimpse into the background of the EASSy project shows it is a noble goal but whose survival is threatened by wrangles.
16 October 2006 - Zachary Ochieng
NEPAD ICT projects
Disputes over ownership and access portend disaster for the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy).
16 October 2006 - Zachary Ochieng
Millennium challeges
Spurred by the need to help developing countries achieve MDG#8, the British Department for International Development (DfID), has prepared a white paper aimed at reducing world poverty over the next five years
13 October 2006 - Zachary Ochieng
Millennium Development Goals
With barely nine years left before the target date of 2015, Africa may not attain MDG 8.
13 October 2006 - Zachary Ochieng
Zambia
Zambia's newly elected president, Levy Mwanawasa, pledged to improve the lives of the country's millions of poor, and extended an olive branch to his rivals as he took the oath of office after an abrasive and bitter general election campaign.
4 October 2006 - IRIN
Zimbabwe
Little is being done to provide treatment and care for Zimbabwean farmworkers living with HIV/AIDS since the government launched its controversial fast-track land redistribution programme in 2000.
4 October 2006 - IRIN
South Africa
Outraged human rights activists have slammed former South African deputy president Jacob Zuma's condemnation of same-sex marriages.
28 September 2006 - IRIN
Media Conference
Each year, more than 500 delegates from across the globe attend the conference to discuss issues relating to Internet governance, ICT policy and media for democracy.
25 September 2006 - Zachary Ochieng
Tanzania
Data collected by the Tanzania Media Women Association (TAMWA) shows a strong correlation between HIV/AIDS, early school exit, teenage marriage and pregnancy.
21 September 2006 - IRIN
East Africa
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.
14 September 2006 - IRIN
Lesotho
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.
14 September 2006 - Hennie Van Vuuren
Africa
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.
13 September 2006 - Mavis Makuni
Nigeria
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.
13 September 2006 - IRIN
Botswana
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.
13 September 2006 - Ofe Motiki, Francistown
