Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)

June 6

Ethiopia: Ethiopia's Protest Leaders Say No Change in Government

Despite speculation that the first anti-government protest in eight years, which was held this week in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, might signal new levels of political... Read more »
Cameroon: Looking to Cameroon's Women Senators

Marlyse Aboui, a 40-year-old nurse, has still not gotten over the astonishment she felt when she heard that Cameroon's President Paul Biya had nominated her to the senate. Read more »
Africa: Impact of Quantitative Easing on Developing Economies [analysis]

The global economy is awash with successive waves of liquidity generated over the past few years by the four most advanced economies, viz., the United States, the European Union,... Read more »

East Africa: Landgrabbing to Provide Horn of Africa With Electricity

Ethiopia's long-term hydropower strategy is proving to be both a source of economic sustenance and contention. In becoming Africa's leading power exporter through the construction... Read more »
Mozambique: Skyscrapers, Land Rovers in One of World's Poorest Countries

Lined up along the streets of central Maputo, Mozambique's capital city, are expensive, European-style bars and restaurants with sophisticated names like Café Continental,... Read more »
Africa: Japan Seeks to Remake Asia-Africa Relationship

Acutely aware of China's strong presence in resource-rich Africa, Japan, the world's third largest economy, is beefing up its relations with the continent. Participants at a... Read more »
Africa: Africa Leading the New Patterns of Growth

The old theories governing the way that countries produce and trade are being replaced. The pattern of trade is being transformed by increasingly sophisticated technology and... Read more »

Zimbabwe: Reviving the Country's Rural Areas

More than three decades after Zimbabwe's independence, the idea of developing its rural areas seems to have been laid to rest, as points intended for development have been turned... Read more »
Uganda: Driving Against Gender Stereotypes

It is swerves and roundabouts for Keddy Olanya, a 32-year-old wife and mother of three from Gulu, northern Uganda, who is one of only a handful of female drivers negotiating the... Read more »
Southern Africa: Region Must Unite to Boost Tourism

Competing players in the tourism industry in southern Africa are putting aside their rivalry in pursuit of a common goal - a big boost in tourist numbers to the region. Read more »

South Sudan: Healing South Sudan's Wounds

Susana Apai Wani has lived as a widow for more than two decades since her husband, James Wani, was arrested in 1992 by a policeman who accused him of collaborating with the Sudan... Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: The Battle to Save DRC's Mothers

"Many hospitals and health centres" that are not run by NGOs "do not meet health standards," according to Dominique Baabo, provincial medical inspector for North Kivu province in... Read more »

Africa: Incessant Killing of Elephants Is Killing Africa's Future

More civil unrest in Africa, another coup d'état, more reports of child soldiers in the front line, involvement of foreign troops, the poorest of the poor losing what little... Read more »
Liberia: Sex Educators Struggle to Break Taboos

Liberian journalist Mae Azango says she spent a year living "like a bat, going from tree to tree" with her daughter in order to escape religious fanatics who were threatening to... Read more »
Somalia: Warlords and Vague Constitution to Blame for Renegade Somali State

Attempts by clan elders and militia commanders in southern Somalia to form an autonomous state, without the consent of the central government but with the apparent backing of... Read more »

Africa: Sharing Indigenous Knowledge From All Ends of the Globe

This city in northern Australia brought them together to share their experiences this week. They are indigenous Shipiba people fighting indiscriminate logging in Peru's Amazon... Read more »
Ghana: Dreams of Education Fly Away for Ghana's Working Kids

It is a school day but 13-year-old Musah Razark Adams, a Grade 5 primary school pupil in Wuba, northern Ghana, is standing in a rice field wielding a "koglung" - a sling shot to... Read more »

Africa: Africa "Net Creditor" to Rest of World, New Data Shows

Over the past three decades, Africa has functioned as a "net creditor" to the rest of the world, the result of a cumulative outflow of nearly a trillion and a half dollars from the... Read more »
Liberia: The Bitter Taste of Liberia's Palm Oil Plantations

Sackie Qwemie works for Equatorial Palm Oil, the company that took his land in northwestern Liberia. Read more »
Uganda: From Playing for Food to World Chess Prodigy

Phiona Mutesi was a muddy, desperate nine-year-old foraging for food in Uganda's biggest slum, Katwe, when she discovered, through her older brother Brian, a chess programme. Read more »

Mozambique: Rapping the Country's Praises and Faults

Mozambique is proud home to not one, but two female rappers who are both qualified lawyers. Yveth "Vauvita" Matunza is striking. She is tall, wearing shoes with enormous stilettos.... Read more »
Africa: 'From Slaves to Generals and Rulers' [interview]

Say "Africa" and myriad images flood our minds. Like its landscape and peoples, the continent's history is rich and diverse. While numerous books have been written and films made... Read more »
Africa: Making Every African Child Count [opinion]

There is much to celebrate this week as the African Union marks 50 years as an independent pan-African entity. In the last half century, Africa has witnessed an era of... Read more »
Cameroon: Activists Claim Win As Herakles Halts Cameroon Operation

After coming under fire from environmental and social justice organisations for violations of land protection laws, Herakles Farms, a New York-based agricultural company, has... Read more »

Africa: African Union Must Do More for Peace

"My husband and older son, unable to cope with the war, became mentally ill. Two of my sons became child soldiers and an eight-year-old daughter was abducted - they were never to... Read more »

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