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HAITI: Donors Pledge 15 Billion Dollars in Aid
- Inter Press Service
Eleven weeks after an earthquake killed over two percent of its population and flattened its capital city, Haiti is looking towards a long and complex rebuilding process.
KENYA: Primary Education Under the Gun
- Inter Press Service
The children are afraid. There are armed bandits hiding with stolen animals in the thickets behind Nawoyaregae Primary School in Kaputir Location.
HEALTH: Seeking Funding to Fight Neglected Diseases
- Inter Press Service
Experts from around the world are trying to attract attention to deadly but little-known illnesses, such as Chagas disease, visceral leishmaniasis and sleeping sickness, that have been neglected by the pharmaceutical industry.
SOUTH AFRICA: Teaching Girls to Report on the World Cup
- Inter Press Service
For the nearly 50 million people of South Africa, the 2010 World Cup represents an opportunity to show the world its progress through sports. But for a new nonprofit organisation, soccer's biggest stage also offers an opportunity to publicise young women who tend to go unheard.
AFRICA: Growth Down; Unemployment Up
- Inter Press Service
Due to the global economic and financial crisis, growth on the African continent dropped to an average of 1.6 percent in 2009, compared to 4.5 percent in 2008.
CHILE: Quake a Chance for Sustainable Rebuilding
- Inter Press Service
Although there is not yet an official tally of the environmental consequences of Chile's Feb. 27 earthquake and tsunami, environmental groups and experts are calling for quick and sustainable responses to the problems.
DEVELOPMENT: Recovery Could Leave Behind World's Poorest
- Inter Press Service
The world's 49 least developed countries (LDCs), described as the poorest of the poor, could feel the effects of the global economic crisis for decades, a senior U.N. official warned this week.
DEVELOPMENT: More Food, Except For That Billion Or So
- Inter Press Service
While agricultural research has made massive strides over the years in helping the world produce more food from the same amount of land, around one in six people, the 1.02 billion hungry, have not noticed.
SOUTH AFRICA: Men Battle Gender-based Violence
- Inter Press Service
When Mbuyiselo Botha decided to take the African National Congress League President, Julius Malema, to court for hate speech against women, he was confident from the start that the case had merit. But he also knew it was a toughest test yet in his 15 years of gender activism.
ZIMBABWE: Women Survive Political Violence Alone
- Inter Press Service
Mary Pamire will never forget the day a group of men took turns to rape her.
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