Global Issues
News headlines for “Conflicts in Africa”, page 433
Past Crimes Haunt Afghan Progress
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, Mar 16 (IPS) - As Afghanistan heads for presidential elections Apr. 5, people are asking if the country's massive legacy of human rights violations will be swept under the carpet yet again by the new government.
Teen Pregnancy Rising in Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Mar 14 (IPS) - She is only 17, but each morning is a reminder of her losses in life. As Pretty Nyathi* forces herself out of bed, feeds her baby, bundles him on her back and rushes to the market to buy vegetables to sell on the streets of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe she wishes her life were different.
Anti-Gay Law Will be Overturned Say Uganda’s Campaigners
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Mar 13 (IPS) - Human rights campaigners who filed a recent legal petition against Uganda's draconian anti-gay law believe that they have a compelling case for its nullification.
South Africa Battles Drug-Resistant TB
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, Mar 12 (IPS) - Despite an increase in diagnosis times, South Africa is facing a growing drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) burden as nationally there remains a large gap between the number of patients diagnosed with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and those who start treatment.
Q&A: Women Hold the Key to Peace in DRC
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Mar 12 (IPS) - Ireland's former President Mary Robinson has been working hard to include women from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Great Lakes Region in the regional peacebuilding process. Because without their involvement, she says, peace and security in the region will be unrealistic.
Brazilian Innovation for Under-financed Mozambican Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
MAPUTO, Mar 12 (IPS) - Some of the technological excellence that revolutionised Brazil's tropical agriculture is reaching small producers in Mozambique. But it is not enough to compensate for the underfinancing of the sector.
U.S. Oil Firm Creates Tension over Western Sahara
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 11 (IPS) - Even as U.S. and Moroccan executives meet to discuss strengthening private sector ties between the two countries, advocacy groups are raising concerns about plans by a U.S. energy firm to explore for oil in the contested territory known as Western Sahara.
Justice Breakdown Blamed for South Africa's Rising Mob Justice
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, Mar 11 (IPS) - Margaret Feke* got off a taxi in Khayelitsha, a township in Cape Town, South Africa, carrying a package of new clothes for her son who was due to leave for his traditional initiation into manhood in the Transkei the following day.
Sea Swallows the Stories of Africans Drowned at Ceuta
- Inter Press Service
MALAGA, Spain, Mar 10 (IPS) - "Who will speak for them now? Who will tell their stories to their families in Cameroon or Ivory Coast?" asked Edmund Okeke, a Nigerian, about the 16 migrants who died while trying to swim to the shore of the Spanish city of Ceuta from Morocco.
What We Can Learn from Child Soldiers
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 10 (IPS) - In 2003, Moses Otiti, a 15-year-old from Uganda, was walking in a group with his father when members of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) ambushed them.
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