Development

U.S. Calls on Mali Junta to Withdraw from Politics

By Souleymane Gano DAKAR, May 18 (IPS) – U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson says Malian soldiers who overthrew the government on Mar. 22 have neither... 
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Human Rights

U.S. Calls on Mali Junta to Withdraw from Politics

By Souleymane Gano DAKAR, May 18 (IPS) – U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson says Malian soldiers who overthrew the government on Mar. 22 have neither... 
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Economics and Finance

Bracing for a Massive Influx of Returnees

By Jared Ferrie JUBA, May 18 (IPS) – In the wake of border tensions the United Nations is airlifting 12,000 southerners from a Sudanese frontier town into South Sudan. But they are returning... 
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Health

Autism "Relegated to the Sidelines"

By Jonathan Migneault and Jamila Akweley Okertchiri ACCRA, May 18 (IPS) – At first glance Nortey Quaynor looks like any ordinary 29-year-old Ghanaian. If you spend a little time with... 
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Education

Q&A: Ghana's Youth Are "The Future of the Nation"

Aline Jenckel interviews SAMUEL KISSI, executive coordinator of Curious Minds, a youth advocacy organisation in Ghana UNITED NATIONS, April 28 (IPS) – With a whopping 40 percent of Ghana's... 
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Featured

SOMALIA: Food Aid Stolen From Famine Victims

By Shafi’i Mohyaddin Abokar   MOGADISHU, Sep 5 (IPS) – Masses of food meant for famine victims in Somalia are being stolen,... 
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