Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)

June 12

Tanzania: Zanzibar's Encroaching Ocean Means Less Water

Khadija Komboani's nearest well is filled with salt water thanks to the rising sea around Tanzania's Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar. Read more »
Africa: 'Carbon Farming' Makes Waves At Stalled Bonn Talks

U.N. climate talks have largely stalled with the suspension of one of three negotiating tracks at a key mid-year session in Bonn, Germany. Read more »

Kenya: The Girl Who Couldn't Herd Goats Now Saves Lives [analysis]

When she was nine years old, Jane Meriwas, a Samburu from the Kipsing Plains in Kenya's Rift Valley region, was considered of no use by her father. After all, nine of his goats had... Read more »
Senegal: 'Religious Schools' Places of Exploitation

In Dakar, urban commuters are familiar with kids as young as five years old begging on street corners at all hours of the day or the night, with torn, dirty clothes, collecting... Read more »

Africa: Behind the Climate Finance Headlines

Developed countries report that they delivered more than 33 billion dollars in Fast Start Finance (known as FSF), beyond the pledges they made at COP 15 in Copenhagen in 2009.... Read more »
Africa: Are Developing Countries Waving or Drowning?

More than five years since the outbreak of the global financial crisis, the world economy has shown few signs of stabilising and moving towards strong and sustained growth. Read more »
Kenya: Flower Farms No Bed of Roses

Catherine Mumbi knows the difficulties of working in Kenya's flower sector. She was fired as a casual worker at a flower farm after taking time off to recover from complications of... Read more »
Africa: U.S., Malaysia Lead Worldwide 'Land Grabs'

Africa is the main target for "land grabs" by foreign investors, according to a new report on large-scale land acquisitions around the world released Monday. Read more »
Libya: Deserts a Source of Worry for its Neighbours

All eyes have turned to Libya since Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou's statement claiming that recent attacks in north Niger were perpetrated by Malian terrorists based in... Read more »

Zimbabwe: Making a Business Out of Water Rationing

For 61-year-old Sarah Chikwanha from water-starved Chitungwiza, a town about 25 kilometres outside Harare, Zimbabwe, there is no choice. She must buy her water from illegal water... Read more »

Nigeria: Communication Blackout, Rights Abuses in Nigeria's Emergency States

Residents in the three Nigerian states where a state of emergency has been declared are living in fear as food prices soar and government soldiers conduct door to door campaigns to... Read more »
Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone's Child Trafficking to Blame for Street Kids

On a street corner in downtown Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital city, 12-year-old Kaita sits with a friend on a peeling steel railing watching the headlights of motorbikes cruising... 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 »
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 »

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 »

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 »
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 »

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 »
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 »

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 »

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