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June 19

South Africa: Gay Imam Speaks on Homosexuality and Islam [interview]

"The best thing was to just come out and be authentic - even if it means the world is going to kill you, but at least you die an authentic person," says Muhsin Hendricks, one of... Read more »

Africa: Vulnerable States Decry Slow Progress At Bonn Climate Talks

Two weeks of U.N.-led climate talks in Bonn ended on Friday in an atmosphere of frustration, with participants bemoaning insufficient progress on everything from securing financial... Read more »

South Sudan: Govt Aid Blockade Threatens Thousands

Thousands of South Sudanese hiding out in malaria-infested swamps will die unless the government allows humanitarian aid in, the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said... Read more »
East Africa: Q&A - America's Secret 'War Without End'

There's a covert war that has been fought by the U.S. government over the past decade. It is part of, but goes far beyond, the "war on terror" launched by former President George... Read more »

Somalia: Aid Workers Risk Manipulation As in Afghanistan - Expert [interview]

As a senior United Nations official in Afghanistan during the 2001 invasion, Antonio Donini saw firsthand the damage done as a result of humanitarians allying themselves with... Read more »
East Africa: Kenya-Ethiopia Power Deal Brings Hope, Controversy

Each week, Lucy Wangui, 51, walks from her home, in an isolated hamlet in Kenya's Narok County, to the local shopping centre 15 kilometers away. Read more »
Central African Republic: Child Deaths Likely to Soar in Post-Coup CAR - Aid Group

Rebels and bandits in Central African Republic (CAR) have ransacked clinics and forced medical staff to flee, leaving tens of thousands of children at risk as the rainy season... Read more »

Morocco: 'Little Maids' but Big Victims [press release]

Each year Terre des hommes witnesses young girls from rural zones in Morocco being exploited by employers in the city, despite the strengthening of laws in Morocco. Read more »
Mali: Govt to Adopt New Anti-Corruption Law

Mali is poised to adopt a new anti-corruption law ahead of its presidential election in July, but civil activists say they doubt a strengthened law will have much impact unless the... Read more »
Africa: Britain a Safe Haven for Plundered Assets - Experts

Britain risks becoming a safe haven for corrupt foreign officials to stash ill-gotten gains due to systematic failures to go after billions of dollars laundered into onshore bank... Read more »
Kenya: Scholarships in Dadaab - Educating Somali Refugees Out of Poverty [press release]

Somali refugees in Dadaab live far from universities and education opportunities. Instead, they end in unemployment or are forced to take on unskilled jobs in the camps to make a... Read more »
Kenya: MPs to Champion Rural Women's Influence On Climate Policy

Women are due to get a bigger say in Kenya's climate change policies after female parliamentarians representing its 47 counties joined a group that has been pushing for gender... Read more »

Tanzania: Factbox - Facts and Figures On Child Marriage

Tanzania has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world. On average, some two out of five girls will be married before their 18th birthday. Read more »
Tanzania: Commercial Farms, Climate Shifts Dry River Basin

In the remote Tanzanian village of Langoni, Ashura Kilinga gets up every day at 4am to join a stream of other women going to draw water from a bore hole on a dry river bed. Read more »
Tanzania: Child Marriage - Cash for Parents, Problems for Girls

Mwanaharusi Mrisho was stunned when her father abruptly removed her from school at the age of 15 and married her off to a much older man because the bride price he received would... Read more »

Uganda: In Uganda, "360-Degree Program" Ensures Communities' Resilience

Humanitarian groups talk a lot about collaboration. Read more »
Uganda: Flash Flooding Forces Focus on Sanitation, Hygiene

'Terrible,' said Dr. Robert Tiondi to a ShelterBox Response Team (SRT) after recent flash flooding in Uganda damaged the majority of facilities and infrastructure in the western... Read more »

South Sudan: Q&A - Aid Agencies Fear Speaking Truth - Refugees Advocate [interview]

Tens of thousands of people have been displaced due to conflict in South Sudan's troubled Jonglei state and insecurity has prevented humanitarian agencies from delivering aid. Read more »
Africa: Aid for Jonglei, but People Scared to Return Home

The United Nations is preparing to deliver emergency medical care to tens of thousands of displaced people in South Sudan's troubled Jonglei state, almost a month after they fled... Read more »
Cameroon: As Dry Periods Worsen, Govt Rations Water

Every day, Paulina Abena and her two grown-up daughters criss-cross the neighbourhoods of Yaounde carrying 40-litre (11 US gallon) containers. Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: Children of Peace Initiative in the DRC [press release]

Upon winning the Nobel Peace Prize, the European Union allocated the prize money to children affected by conflict and launched its Children of Peace initiative which aims at... Read more »

Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Launches Overdue Plan to Assist Drought-Hit Farmers

Ticky Mletshwa, a 46-year-old small-scale farmer, has always done the same thing in his plot deep in the dry rural areas of Lupane, about 175 kilometres north of Bulawayo,... Read more »
Africa: Pull UK Funds From 'Colonialist' Africa Food Scheme, NGOs Say

Britain should withdraw funding for a scheme that encourages big businesses to invest in African agriculture, putting profits ahead of poor farmers' interests, activists said. Read more »

Kenya: President's Office Censored Report On Land Grabbing - Commissioners

Three foreign members of a commission looking into historical injustices in Kenya have said the president's office censored a report to exclude references to irregular land... Read more »

Kenya: Community Dams Aim to Build Water Security in Arid Kenya

Before arriving at Katuthia village in lower Eastern Kenya, a visitor travels through parched countryside, with stretches of land sprouting newly sown crops that are already... Read more »

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