DEVELOPMENT: Uniting Against Extreme Poverty

By A.D.McKenzie PARIS, Jan 27 (IPS) – When Louisamène Joseph Alionat unexpectedly began singing in a packed hall at the United Nations cultural agency here this week, it was an attempt to give encouragement to her peers engaged in the uphill battle of trying to end extreme poverty.  Read More →

Development

DEVELOPMENT: Uniting Against Extreme Poverty

By A.D.McKenzie PARIS, Jan 27 (IPS) – When Louisamène Joseph Alionat unexpectedly began singing in a packed hall at the United Nations cultural agency here this week, it was an... 

• HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: HIV-Related Deaths Slow Economy
• ZIMBABWE: To Yuan or Not to Yuan, That is the Question
• CAMEROON: Anglophones Feel Like a Subjugated People
• MALAWI: Street Vendors Lose Customers after Stripping Women Naked

Human Rights

DEVELOPMENT: Uniting Against Extreme Poverty

By A.D.McKenzie PARIS, Jan 27 (IPS) – When Louisamène Joseph Alionat unexpectedly began singing in a packed hall at the United Nations cultural agency here this week, it was an... 

• HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: HIV-Related Deaths Slow Economy
• MIDEAST: Censorship Changes Colours
• CAMEROON: Anglophones Feel Like a Subjugated People
• MALAWI: Street Vendors Lose Customers after Stripping Women Naked

Environment

AFRICA: Miracle Tree is Like a Supermarket

By Kristin Palitza   CAPE TOWN, Jan 25 (IPS) – When a food crisis hits the continent, African countries tend to look to the international donor community to mobilise aid. But a fast-growing,... 

• KENYA: Key Lakes Succumb to Human Activities
• Brown Revolution Brings New Hope
• CAMEROON: Stepping Naturally Away from Plastic
• SUDAN: No Clear Studies on Impacts of Merowe Dam

Economics and Finance

HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: HIV-Related Deaths Slow Economy

By Kristin Palitza   CAPE TOWN, Jan 27 (IPS) – If there was no HIV/AIDS, South Africa would have 4.4 million more people than today, the size of a major city. This significant slow-down... 

• ZIMBABWE: To Yuan or Not to Yuan, That is the Question
• MAURITIUS: The Decline of Consumer Cooperatives
• ZIMBABWE: Street Vendors’ Protest Sparking a Revolution
• Woe Betide the Return of the Zimbabwean Dollar

Health

HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: HIV-Related Deaths Slow Economy

By Kristin Palitza   CAPE TOWN, Jan 27 (IPS) – If there was no HIV/AIDS, South Africa would have 4.4 million more people than today, the size of a major city. This significant slow-down... 

• SOUTH SUDAN: Still Counting the Dead in Inter-Ethnic Conflict
• CAMEROON: Stepping Naturally Away from Plastic
• Double Sentence: AIDS in a Senegalese Prison
• KENYA: Medical Waste Poses Serious Threat to Scavengers

Education

SOMALIA: Rebuilding Among the Rubble

By Abdurrahman Warsameh MOGADISHU, Dec 30 (IPS) – With vehicles and donkey carts packed with their belongings, Somalis are returning, four years after they fled, to their partially standing,... 

• SOMALIA: Taking Schools Back From Militants
• MALAWI: Women’s Education The Path to The Presidency
• At the Nexus of Agrofuels, Land Grabs and Hunger – Part 1
• AFRICA: Failure to Adopt Technology in Libraries Results in Fewer Users