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SOUTH SUDAN Children Too Hungry to Return to Civilian Life By Zack Baddorf SOUTH SUDAN - When Timothy was forced into the southern Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) at age 11, the first thing they did was beat him. Then they took him to a military base where his tasks were to carry other soldiers’ bags, wash their clothes, collect firewood for them, and cook their food. MORE >>
Boycott Cedes Power To Burundi's Ruling Party By Zack Baddorf BUJUMBURA - The coalition of 11 major opposition parties which boycotted July 23 national assembly elections will also boycott elections to the senate on July 28. The Alliance of Democrats for Change, as the coalition is known, claims that two previous polls - to elect Burundi's district administrators and the president - were characterised by "massive fraud". MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT-CONGO Deforestation Threatens South With Famine By Arsène Séverin KINKALA, Congo - The trees are falling in Pool, and there are plenty of people to hear the sound. In a painful irony, the end of armed conflict in 2003, has signaled the wholesale devastation of forests in this southern region of the Republic of Congo. MORE >>
DR CONGO Pursuing Rebels at What Price By Laure Pichegru JOHANNESBURG - Operation Amani Leo, launched jointly by MONUC (the United Nations Mission in Congo) and FARDC (the Congolese army) in January to regain control of mining territories in the eastern provinces of North and South Kivu from rebels, while ensuring security for the local population has been extended to September. But Congolese women are arguing for changes in the conduct of military operations. MORE >>
RWANDA Women Win by Formalising Businesses By Aimable Twahirwa and Kudzai Makombe KIGALI and JOHANNESBURG - The vast majority of businesses in Rwanda - like elsewhere in Africa - are informal. Government expects that a drive to register an estimated 900,000 informal enterprises will both strengthen these businesses and improve tax revenues. MORE >>
AFRICA Women Demand Answers and Action from ICC By Evelyn Matsamura Kiapi KAMPALA - With the first Review Conference of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) under way in the Ugandan capital Kampala, women are crying out for justice for gender-based violence inflicted upon them during the civil conflict in the country’s north. MORE >>
African Grandmothers Demand Support in Role as Caregivers By Mantoe Phakathi MANZINI, Swaziland - "Africa cannot survive without us," is the message from grandmothers representing all corners of the continent. MORE >>
Q&A DRC Journalists Have to be Very Careful Emmanuel Chaco interviews DIEUDONNE MALEKERA, journalist and human rights advocate BUKAVU, DR Congo - Six journalists have been murdered in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the past six years, four of them in the Eastern region. Official investigations have failed to clarify the circumstances of any of these killings. MORE >>
CHINA To Congo, With Trouble By Antonaeta Becker LONDON - A massive barter deal with the Democratic Republic of Congo trumpeted by China as a showcase of its "win-win" strategy in Africa has been hit by charges of corruption, a court case, and a barrage of western criticism. The surprise onslaught is causing Beijing to suspect a plot to undercut its expanding presence in the resource-rich continent. MORE >>
Chad Redoubles Efforts Against Polio By François Djékombé N'DJAMENA - The polio vaccination campaign under way in Chad has added significance in 2010. The country recorded zero polio cases in 2004, but 66 cases of wild polio were reported in 2009, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. MORE >>
HEALTH-DR CONGO Coming Together to Fight Malaria By Isaiah Esipisu LUBUMBASHI - Eight faith-based organisations have set up a pilot project in the Democratic Republic of Congo to support the fight against malaria. MORE >>
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