Global Issues
News headlines for “Conflicts in Africa”, page 370
Zimbabwe: Poverty Stunting Minds and Growth
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Jan 12 (IPS) - Mildren Ndlovu* knows the mental toll of Zimbabwe's long-drawn economic hardships in a country where a long rehashed statistic by labour unions puts unemployment at 90 per cent.
Agroecology in Africa: Mitigation the Old New Way
- Inter Press Service
OAKLAND, California, Jan 11 (IPS) - Millions of African farmers don't need to adapt to climate change. They have done that already.
Wrong Time of the Month: a Rights Gap for Developing Countries’ Girls
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 07 (IPS) - The onset of menstruation is a landmark event in the life of a young woman. Yet many complications and challenges accompany such an event. One in 10 adolescent girls miss school and eventually drop out due to menstruation-related issues.
Kitchen Gardens are Victory Gardens in Boosting Nutrition and Incomes in Western Kenya
- Inter Press Service
BUSIA, Kenya, Dec 30 (IPS) - Busia County in western Kenya is home to an array of indigenous vegetables. But for decades there has been a shift in popular taste leading to leading to little interest in what is indigenously grown. This relegated the vegetables to the periphery with most farmers cultivating kale and cabbages among other more exotic varieties.
French firm attacks Ugandan tax using ISDS
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Dec 25 (IPS) - The heavily criticized legal mechanism, known as ISDS, is an important tool for European companies to pressurize developing countries. This year Uganda joins the rank of developing nations asking themselves: "Why have we ever signed this?"
Climate Smart Coffee and Banana Set to Boost East African Farmers’ Income
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Dec 23 (IPS) - Ugandan farmers are increasingly inter-planting coffee, the country's primary export, and banana, a staple food, as a way of coping with the effects of climate change.
Disabled Persons Not Part of AIDS Success in Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
SHURUGWI, Zimbabwe, Dec 22 (IPS) - Wheelchair-bound, her body now skeletal from full blown AIDS, disabled 38-year-old Melisa Chigumba attempts to wave away a swarm of flies hovering around her face as she sits outside her home in Chachacha, a remote area in Shurugwi, 278 kilometers south of the capital, Harare.
Mexico to Export Nixtamalisation of Grains to Africa
- Inter Press Service
TEXCOCO, Mexico, Dec 18 (IPS) - Every day in the wee hours of the morning Verónica Reyes' extended family grinds corn to make the dough they use in the tacos they sell from their food truck in Mexico City.
Weak Agriculture Finance Feeds Malnutrition in Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Dec 15 (IPS) - Successive poor harvests have diminished Ndodana Makhalima's household food stocks and the family's nutrition status. A subsistence farmer in Lupane, about 110 kilometres north of Zimbabwe's second city, Bulawayo, 56 year-old Makhalima has learnt to live with hunger on his door step.
Farmers, CSOs Rally Environmentalist Jailed for Exposing Land Grabbing in Cameroon
- Inter Press Service
YOUNDE, Cameroon, Dec 15 (IPS) - Farmers and activists in Cameroon say a jail sentence handed down on an environmentalist who exposed land-grabbing by a multinational agro-industrial company, sends a dangerous signal to communities trying to protect their land and resources.
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