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SOUTH AFRICA: 'Xenophobia Simmering Just Below Boiling Point'
- Inter Press Service
'Xenophobia is part of life. We do not live easy here. We only survive,' says Somali shopkeeper, Abdinasir Shaikh Aden, looking tense.
500,000 Pregnant Women at Risk in Pakistan Floods
- Inter Press Service
Aid groups and U.N. agencies are raising the alarm over the vulnerability of pregnant women and babies in flood ravaged Pakistan.
Fisheries Can Play Key Role in Africa
- Inter Press Service
Fisheries contribute at least $10 billion dollars to African economies every year. In countries such as Angola, Egypt and Namibia, fisheries are vital economic drivers.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Growing Seed Security
- Inter Press Service
Farmer Obed Dlamini, like many of his colleagues from Swaziland, finds it difficult to find quality maize seeds each planting season. Not only are the seeds expensive but they are often not available.
SRI LANKA: War-weary Civilians Dream of New Homes
- Inter Press Service
Ramaih Sathdiyapillai has had enough of life on the run. A native of Kilinochchi district — which was until not too long ago the stronghold of the separatist Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka’s north — she bore the brunt of the war along with tens of thousands of others.
AFGHANISTAN: Not Much Good News for the Media
- Inter Press Service
Good news has become harder to come by these days in Afghanistan, especially as the war-ravaged country gears up for the parliamentary election scheduled on Sep. 18.
RWANDA: Genocide Ideology and Sectarianism Laws Silencing Critics?
- Inter Press Service
Among its unstable and conflict-ridden neighbours, Rwanda stands out. It has been pegged as a model of development and one of Africa’s success stories: Since the 1990’s, when a civil war ravaged the country, average incomes have doubled, its people have become healthier and less hungry and it has the highest proportion of women parliamentarians worldwide. Yet, maintaining this stability is a government accused of muzzling its opponents and committing human rights abuses.
AFRICA: ‘Welcome to My Taxi — Let’s Do Business with My Cell Phone’
- Inter Press Service
In cities across Africa, being an entrepreneur requires no office, business card or investors. All it takes is a cell phone, according to Adele Botha, a researcher at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa.
DEVELOPMENT: South-east Asian Highway Hits Roadblock in Burma
- Inter Press Service
With its thick forest cover and abundant wildlife, the Dawna mountain range in south-eastern Burma is coming in the way of a flagship highway project being pushed by one of Asia’s premier financiers of roads.
INDIA: Kashmiri Youngsters Wage Online Struggle
- Inter Press Service
Rasik Rasheed’s (not his real name) hefty Internet bills hardly bother his family. Cooped up at home due to curfews and strikes here for nearly three months now, youngsters like him have been busy not just with their studies but with waging what they call the Kashmir struggle on the Internet.
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