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SOUTH AFRICA "Xenophobia Simmering Just Below Boiling Point" By Kim Cloete CAPE TOWN - "Xenophobia is part of life. We do not live easy here. We only survive," says Somali shopkeeper, Abdinasir Shaikh Aden, looking tense. MORE >>
ECONOMY "Sub-Saharan Africa Is Speeding Towards Affluence" By Julio Godoy PARIS - Africa is heading towards a bright economic future, according to a new book co-authored by the former director of the French state agency for economic cooperation and released recently in Paris. MORE >>
Niger Facing Growing Food Crisis By Ousseini Issa* NIAMEY - In April, the United Nations World Food Programme estimated it would need 190 million dollars to respond to a food crisis threatening more than 7 million people in Niger. By July, the WFP had revised the amount needed upwards to $371 million: a month later, the U.N. agency has been forced to scale back aid for lack of funds. MORE >>
AFRICA Lack of City Planning to Hurt More Citizens By Isaiah Esipisu NAIROBI - Thousands of Kenyan urban dwellers, rich and poor, live in fear that their homes or building investments could soon be demolished as the country struggles to keep up with the rapid urbanisation of cities. MORE >>
DR CONGO Sticks And Straw Out of Our Schools By Badylon K. Bakiman KIKWIT, DR Congo - Led by the local church, residents of Gungu administrative zone, in the southwestern Democratic Republic of Congo have used their own resources to transform the conditions in which their children study. MORE >>
KENYA Herbal Contraceptives Under the Radar By Susan Anyangu-Amu NAIROBI - An arrow points the way from a busy street along a rough pathway; visitors clutch their bags more closely. The door is open: sachets are displayed on the table with labels indicating treatment for ulcers, diabetes, hypertension, fibroids. But not the contraceptive pill IPS is looking for. MORE >>
SIERRA LEONE Defining New Role for Traditional Birth Attendants By Mohamed Fofanah FREETOWN - Posseh Sesay will never be able to bear children again following a tragic birthing experience at the hands of her village traditional birth attendant (TBA). MORE >>
KENYA Jury Still Out on Traditional Birth Attendants By Susan Anyangu-Amu NAIROBI - The government of Kenya has been encouraging women to deliver in hospital. Home deliveries by traditional birth attendants are considered to be a major contributor to maternal deaths. MORE >>
FILM A Congolese Woman's Journey of Survival and Triumph By Amanda Bransford NEW YORK - Suffering through the atrocities of war affects people in different ways. Some become crippled by anger, others by fear. Some become violent and want only revenge. And some, like Rose Mapendo, an inspiring survivor of the war and ethnic cleansing in the Democratic Republic of Congo, come out with a strong commitment to work for peace and reconciliation. MORE >>
Swiss Plan to Gag Refugees By Ray Smith BERN - Only two years after its last revision, the Swiss Asylum Act is about to be 'reformed' again. The changes include a gag order on political activism for asylum-seekers and a modification of the concept of a refugee. MORE >>
EU With Refuge Like This… By David Cronin BRUSSELS - Habtom, a 30-year-old Eritrean, has all the grim qualifications needed to be a refugee. He was arrested for protesting a dictatorship, tortured in custody, and fears his life would be at risk if he returned home. Another part of his story is also typical: he suffered lengthy detention in a European Union nominally committed to the universal defence of human rights. MORE >>
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