UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (Nairobi)
Updates on conflicts and news from throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
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November 17
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South Africa: Western Cape Farmworkers Join Strikes [opinion]
Farm labourers are the latest group to join a wave of strikes across South Africa in recent months as food price increases outstrip the official inflation rate. Read more »
November 6
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South Africa: Dealing With Sexual Abuse in Prison
"Here is the mess," the warder said when he shoved Michael Adams* into an overcrowded cell in Allandale Prison, near South Africa's Cape Town, 10 years ago. That first night, Adams... Read more »
October 30
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South Africa: The Psychological Strain of Living in Tin Can Town
A recent academic study has identified a range of mental health disorders suffered by shack dwellers in South Africa's Western Cape Province, from chronic insomnia to low... Read more »
October 24
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Africa: The State of African Wheat Research
Researchers in Africa are identifying ways to improve domestic wheat production in the face of sub-optimal conditions and stiff international competition. Read more »
October 19
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South Africa: Attacks on Migrants Re-Emerge
After a wave of violent attacks on foreigners swept South Africa in May 2008, leaving 63 dead and tens of thousands displaced, both government and civil society pledged 'never... Read more »
October 8
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South Africa: Shack Living Goes Green
The Plaatjie family - like more than a million households in South Africa - lives in an informal settlement. But unlike most such households, the Plaatjies' shack is warm in the... Read more »
September 27
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South Africa: Smells Like a Bargain - Money-Saving Biogas
With the number of people in Africa's urban centres expected to grow rapidly in the next few decades, municipal waste and its disposal could pose a variety of logistical and public... Read more »
September 21
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South Africa: Business as Usual After Marikana Mine Violence?
Five weeks after the Marikana mine massacre in South Africa's North West Province claimed the lives of 34 protesting workers and shocked the world, the strike that prompted the... Read more »
September 20
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Africa: Child Migrants Illegally Imprisoned
By the age of 16, Auguy Bingi* had lost a father and a brother to the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), so he did not argue when his mother sent him to join... Read more »
September 11
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Ghana: Global South Leads the Way Towards Universal Healthcare Coverage
An increasing number of developing countries are introducing universal healthcare coverage - and creating new models to do it - according to research published in The Lancet.... Read more »
September 4
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South Africa: Another Strain of Deadly Wheat Fungus
As the world's supply of staple grains grows tight, scientists are learning about the discovery in South Africa of yet another deadly variant of Ug99 stem rust, a virulent fungal... Read more »
August 19
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South Africa: It's Easier to Make a Difference in Rural Healthcare
In South Africa's Zithulele Village, the local hospital services 130,000 people - but operates without enough health workers. Read more »
August 18
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South Africa: Police Target Foreign Traders in Limpopo
Police in South Africa's northern Limpopo Province have shut down hundreds of shops run by refugees and asylum seekers during an operation to enforce trading laws that observers... Read more »
August 2
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Africa: Marie, 'It's Been a Long Journey and a Painful One' [opinion]
Marie*, her husband and their three children, refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), are about to relocate from South Africa, where they have lived for the past... Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: Resettlement Still a Last Resort
After five years of hoping and waiting, Marie*, her husband Simeon* and their three children, refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, finally received a phone call telling... Read more »
July 26
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South Africa: Court Orders Cape Town to Process Asylum Applications
Refugee rights organizations in Cape Town are breathing a sigh of relief following a high court judgement that will force the Department of Home Affairs to reverse a policy of not... Read more »
July 25
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South Africa: World Bank Highlights Massive Inequality
In an ideal society, every child would have an equal shot at achieving their human potential, regardless of their race, gender, family background or where they were born. The... Read more »
July 16
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Lesotho: Cross-Border Health Crisis Hits Mineworkers
Two years ago Mopeli Mofoka, 39, left his wife and child in Maseru, Lesotho's capital, and joined the more than 50,000 men pushed by poverty and unemployment in their home country... Read more »
July 11
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Africa: Human Smugglers Profit As Tragedies Multiply
When Abdo Giro*, a 55-year-old evangelist minister and political dissident from southern Ethiopia, paid smugglers 55,000 birr (US$3,095) to take him from the Kenyan border town of... Read more »
June 28
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Lesotho: Traffickers Prey On Desperate Job Seekers
At the age of 15 and with no money for school shoes or a uniform, Linda* was forced to accept that her education was over and it was time to look for a job. In Lesotho's southern... Read more »
May 22
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South Africa: The Invisible Scars of War
Georgette* is jumpy and on the verge of tears even before she starts recounting her long and harrowing story of loss and violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), her... Read more »
April 27
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Africa: Bone Marrow Register an 'Important Milestone'
Only a fraction of the millions of people worldwide with blood and autoimmune disorders survive - especially those in poorer countries - partly due to the lack of bone marrow stem... Read more »
March 15
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South Africa: Reverse Migration Slowing Urbanization Rates
Twenty years ago, South Africa's cities were braced for a massive influx of rural migrants following the scrapping of apartheid-era pass laws which had restricted black people's... Read more »
March 12
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South Africa: Irin Film - Out of Sight - Blind Migrants in Johannesburg
IRIN's latest film, Out of Sight, explores the lives of blind undocumented migrants from Zimbabwe as they try and eke out a living begging on the streets of Johannesburg. Read more »
February 16
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South Africa: Out of Sight - Blind Migrants in Johannesburg
IRIN's latest film, Out of Sight, explores the lives of blind undocumented migrants from Zimbabwe as they try and eke out a living begging on the streets of Johannesburg. Read more »
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