Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)

September 19

Chad: Tractors Revolutionise Agriculture in Chad

Chad has more than 400,000 square kilometres of arable land, but poor rainfall and a reliance on basic agricultural techniques have left the country with a grain deficit in the... Read more »

Sudan: Fighting for a Free Press

In Sudan's newspaper district in Khartoum East, dozens of people sit beneath the trees sipping tea or reading newspapers. Most are journalists who once worked for the 10 newspapers... Read more »
Malawi: Saving the Lives of the Nation's Children

Three-month-old Simplicious Gift lives in Mafunga village in Malawi's southern rural district of Chikhwawa, 48 kilometres from the commercial capital, Blantyre. His is a poor... Read more »
West Africa: Fears for Food Security Rise With West African Floodwaters

Hundreds of thousands of people have been affected by heavy flooding along the Niger River over the last few weeks. Niger, Mali and Benin have been particularly hard hit, with... Read more »

Mali: Farmers Want Their Land Back

A group of smallholder farmers in Mali have turned to the courts to try to recover land they say they have lost to big private investors. The legal action comes as foreign... Read more »
Senegal: Polygamy Throttles Women in Senegal

Fatou (40), Awa (32) and Aissatou Gaye (24) sit in a meditative mood on the tiled floor outside their matrimonial home in Keur Massar, a township in the Senegalese capital Dakar. Read more »
Kenya: Kenya's Water Wars Kill Scores

Water scarcity is fuelling deadly inter-ethnic wars that continue to claim lives in Kenya, according to government officials. And if nothing is done to educate communities on how... Read more »

Senegal: Agricultural Activity to Slow Clandestine Emigration From Senegal

"It was Ibrahima Sarr, a friend and fellow fisherman, who got me involved with smuggling people across the seas." Senegalese fisherman Doudou Ndoye speaks with the bittersweet... Read more »
Kenya: Men and Women Farming Together Can Eradicate Hunger

Three years ago, the residents of the semi-arid Yatta district in Kenya's Eastern Province lived on food aid due to dwindling crops of maize that could not thrive because of the... Read more »
Burkina Faso: Very Important People Championing Ventilated Improved Pit Latrines

For far too many households in Burkina Faso, going to the toilet means heading for the bush. The Burkinabè government has launched a new campaign to change this, calling on... Read more »

South Africa: Police May Face Murder Charges Over Miners' Deaths

The South African Police Service members who were involved in a bloodbath with striking workers at the Marikana mine in North West Province could face murder charges, sources close... Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Water in DRC More Often Cause of Death Than Source of Life

Despite the desperate lack of access to water for domestic use in Mwene Ditu, in the central Democratic Republic of Congo, Dieudonné Ilunga spent a good part of July... Read more »
Cameroon: U.S. Company Accused of Greenwashing 'Land-Grab'

Environment groups are accusing a New York-based agricultural company, Herakles Farms, of going forward with plans for a 73,000-hectare palm-oil plantation and refinery in... Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: Universities Shed Legacy of Violence, Corruption

Yacouba Coulibaly was pursuing a doctorate in education at Cocody University in Abidjan before Côte d'Ivoire's post-election violence started in 2010. But his classes were... Read more »
Senegal: Thousands Live Off Market Gardens

Thousands of farmers are earning a living growing fruit and vegetables in the Niayes, a strip of fertile land running north along Senegal's western coastline from the outskirts of... Read more »
South Sudan: Fighting Hunger - Arresting South Sudan's Idle Youth

Police in South Sudan have begun press-ganging every "idle" youth they can find to provide labour on police farms. The State Police Commissioner in Northern Bahr al Gazal state... Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: A Green Gold Mine in Kinshasa

A disused cemetery in the heart of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been transformed into a profitable urban garden. Relying on compost they make... Read more »

Angola: Opposition to Challenge Election Result? [analysis]

Question marks hang over the legitimacy of Angola's general election as Africa's second-longest serving leader Jose Eduardo dos Santos has won a five-year term in office following... Read more »

Cameroon: Farming Among the Waste in Cameroon

Cameroonian urban famer Juliana Numfor has six plots of land where she grows maize, cassava, sweet potatoes and leafy vegetables, including cabbages, wild okra and greens. Read more »
Senegal: Biomass Plant Lights Up Rural Senegal

A new power plant in the eastern Senegalese village of Kalom is generating more than just electricity. Powered by agricultural waste, the station has lit up homes, lightened... Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Calls Grow for Foreign Intervention in Conflict

As the situation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues to deteriorate in the wake of an armed rebellion that began in April, some activists have strengthened... Read more »
Zambia: The Undying Legacy of Dambudzo Marechera

Legendary and controversial Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera, who once famously told people to let him write and drink his beer, has been dead for 25 years. However, interest... Read more »

Uganda: Swapping Children for Protection in Central African Republic [interview]

The protection of children remains critical in the Central African Republic, where parents willingly give their children to armed groups in exchange for protection and services. Read more »

Burkina Faso: Filling the Granaries in Burkina Faso

The seeds were sown, and the harvest is beginning to come in. Burkina Faso farmers are reaping the benefits of their government's programme to develop and popularise improved... Read more »

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