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ECONOMY: 'Borderless Southern Africa Is a Pie in the Sky'
- Inter Press Service
Regional economic integration plans in southern Africa are not rooted in reality, according to civil society organisations holding a parallel meeting alongside the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in Namibia’s capital of Windhoek.
Niger Facing Growing Food Crisis
- Inter Press Service
In April, the United Nations World Food Programme estimated it would need 190 million dollars to respond to a food crisis threatening more than 7 million people in Niger. By July, the WFP had revised the amount needed upwards to $371 million: a month later, the U.N. agency has been forced to scale back aid for lack of funds.
KENYA: Poor Women Beset On All Sides By Violence
- Inter Press Service
'My daughter had repeatedly tried to describe to me what her step-father would do to her when I was not home,' says Wanza*, a 28-year-old mother resident of Nairobi's Mathare slum. 'On this particular night I pretended to be asleep and watched as he left our bed and went for my eight-year-old daughter.'
RIGHTS-INDIA: Despite Laws and Campaigns, Child Marriages Persist
- Inter Press Service
Soon after she had her second child, Rathna fell into a frenzied state and had to be brought to a hospital here in the southern Indian village of Dharmapuri. After a month-long series of tests, doctors issued their diagnosis: Rathna, they said, was suffering from a psychiatric aberration that seems to occur often among adolescent mothers.
RWANDA: Improving the Lives of Small-Scale Farmers
- Inter Press Service
Joelle Nsamira Kajuga, a female agricultural researcher has a ready answer to describe which modified crop will produce a higher yield, which will be resistant to bacteria, and which will ensure food security and generate a higher turnover for poor small-scale farmers in different regions in Rwanda.
MALAWI: Local Management the Tonic for Water Woes
- Inter Press Service
Hop over a seep of filthy sludge behind a bathroom screened with ragged sacks, turn past the toilet with battered cardboard walls, crab between mud-brick shanties roofed with rusty metal... There: emerge into a small, neat yard where a dozen women and girls are filling plastic buckets from five water taps sticking out of concrete wall.
U.N. Targets 'Lost Generation'
- Inter Press Service
Even as the U.N. launched the International Year of Youth last week, one of its agencies was warning of a 'lost generation' of disillusioned young workers who are unable to find decent jobs.
ENVIRONMENT: Climate Change Debate Rises with Pakistan Floods
- Inter Press Service
'If this is not God’s wrath, what is?' 40-year-old taxi driver Bakht Zada said of the massive floods in Pakistan that have swept away his life earnings.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Women Traders 'Blocked' From the 'Big Business'
- Inter Press Service
'Africans do not believe women can do big business,' fumes Zambian trader Angelica Rumsey.
Cancer Surge Getting Short Shrift in Developing World
- Inter Press Service
Although long treated as a problem exclusive to high-income and developed countries, cancer is also a major cause of mortality in the developing world. A group of leading cancer and global health experts is now calling for new strategies to effectively prevent and treat cancer in poor countries.
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