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NIGERIA: Acting President Consolidates Power Amid Unrest
- Inter Press Service
This week, acting Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan dissolved his cabinet, further securing his tenuous hold on the country's top post amidst rising unrest in the Niger Delta and flaring religious tensions in the central region of the country.
ZAMBIA: School Policy for Teen Mothers a Partial Success
- Inter Press Service
Naomi Mulenga is determined to beat the odds by finishing her school education and becoming a nurse — despite being a teenage mother.
KENYA: Trying to Rebuild Communities After Floods
- Inter Press Service
A week after torrential rains and floods claimed lives in Kenya’s North Rift region, hundreds of displaced people are now in dire need of relief aid.
DEVELOPMENT: Political Will the Missing Link for MDGs
- Inter Press Service
Despite numerous factors that threaten the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 - a global financial crisis, a food crisis, climate change, natural disasters — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said this week that his main concern is 'political will'.
POLITICS-BURMA: A Poll, Yes, But Not Political Change
- Inter Press Service
In teashops and markets, the national election due this year in Burma is the talk of the town, so much so that Thuzar, who did not take part in the 1990 poll, is quite eager to cast her vote this time.
KENYA: State Insists Counterfeit Law’s No Threat to Right to Life
- Inter Press Service
Kenya’s Constitutional Court heard yesterday from counsel representing the government that the Anti-Counterfeit Act of 2008 does not threaten the importation or manufacturing of cheap generic medicines and therefore does not deny Kenyans their constitutional right to life.
NEPAL: Crippling Power Outages Throw Life Out of Gear
- Inter Press Service
When it gets cold during Nepal’s winter nights, Yem Prasad Gurung turns on his heater run by liquefied petroleum gas. When it gets dark, he switches on the lights that rely on a solar inverter — and to make sure he gets water, he turns on a generator-powered water pump.
MEDIA-ASIA: Exiled Radio Plays A Cat-and Mouse Game
- Inter Press Service
For exiled journalists working on shortwave radio programming aimed at Burmese and Tibetan listeners, dodging the ‘enemy’ in the name of freer speech is often a cat-and-mouse game.
EDUCATION-MALAWI: Communication Made Easier with a Local Language Dictionary
- Inter Press Service
The thickest book on secondary school teacher Hellen Ndalama’s desk is her indigenous language dictionary. It is also her most-used book.
ECONOMY-SENEGAL: Small and Medium-sized Businesses Cannot Access Bank Credit
- Inter Press Service
Despite the financial sector boom in Senegal, small and medium sized businesses (SMBs), which represent over 90 percent of the industrial fabric of the country, struggle to access funding for their development, their representatives claim.
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