News headlines for “Conflicts in Africa”, page 416

  1. South Sudanese Children Starving While Aid Falling Short

    - Inter Press Service

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    WASHINGTON, Jul 15 (IPS) - Even as aid workers are warning that children in South Sudan are falling victim to mass malnutrition, international agencies are said to be missing their fundraising goals to avert a looming famine in the country.

  2. Time to “Drop the Knife” for FMG in The Gambia

    - Inter Press Service

    BANJUL, Jul 13 (IPS) - Women's rights activists in the Gambia are insisting that more than 30 years of campaigning to raise awareness should be sufficient to move the government to outlaw female genital mutilation (FMG).

  3. Defying the Ebola Odds in Sierra Leone

    - Inter Press Service

    KENEMA, Sierra Leone, Jul 12 (IPS) - Adikali Kamara is a 36-year-old student nurse working in the government hospital in Kenema, a sprawling town on the fringe of the Sierra Leone's Gola tropical rain forest.

  4. Mechanical Pumps Turning Oases into Mirages

    - Inter Press Service

    BAHARIYA OASIS, Egypt, Jul 12 (IPS) - Using a hoe, farmer Atef Sayyid removes an earthen plug in an irrigation stream, allowing water to spill onto the parcel of land where he grows dates, olives and almonds.

  5. Future of Rwanda’s Orphans Still Uncertain

    - Inter Press Service

    KIGALI, Jul 11 (IPS) - Every day, 14-year-old Deborah wakes up in an orphanage, goes to school, and comes home to an orphanage. It does not matter when or for how long she leaves the orphanage, she always knows she'll be back.

  6. OPINION: Unleashing African Young People’s Potential

    - Inter Press Service

    JOHANNESBURG, Jul 10 (IPS) - An African proverb says "a child that we refuse to build today will end up selling the house that we may build tomorrow."

  7. Shea Harvesting Good for Income, Bad for the Environment in Ghana

    - Inter Press Service

    TAMALE, Ghana, Jul 10 (IPS) - The shea tree, a traditional African food plant, represents a major source of income for women in Ghana's Northern, Upper West and Upper East regions, but they are helping to destroy the very resource that gives them money by cutting it down to produce charcoal.

  8. Zimbabwean Girls Venture into Technological Innovation

    - Inter Press Service

    HARARE, Jul 10 (IPS) - For 22-year-old Moselyn Muchena, a final year computer science student at the University of Zimbabwe, it seemed obvious to create a mobile application offering easy access to services in the local catering industry, largely because of the huge number of female entrepreneurs in that sector.

  9. U.S. Groups Reject Anti-Gay Discrimination Bill over Religious Exemption

    - Inter Press Service

    WASHINGTON, Jul 09 (IPS) - Civil rights groups across the United States have withdrawn their support from a major legislative proposal that would outlaw workplace discrimination against sexual minorities, warning that recent legal developments could exempt companies on religious grounds.

  10. World's Poorest Nations Seek Presence in Post-2015 Agenda

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Jul 08 (IPS) - The 48 least developed countries (LDCs), described as the poorest of the world's poor, want to be an integral part of the U.N.'s post-2015 development agenda currently under discussion.

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