Paris has finally arrived. During the next two weeks, a massive conference centre in the outskirts of the French capital will play host to the ultimate United Nations conference and the single most important climate change event in decades. The [...] Read more »
In Botswana: Leaving the Corporate Office to Work the Land – and Finding Opportunity
Beauty Manake moves around these days with a “million dollar” smile on her face. The 31-year old woman from Botswana now runs a thriving vegetable and livestock farm, as well as an agribusiness consultancy group. But she hadn’t planned on being [...] Read more »
On World AIDS Day 2015: HIV Orphans in India Struggle With the Disease and for Their Future
Already 15 million people are accessing life-saving HIV treatment, according to UNAIDS. New HIV infections have been reduced by 35 per cent since 2000 and AIDS-related deaths have been reduced by 42 per cent since the peak in 2004. As the globe [...] Read more »
Child Marriages Will Increase Without Action, Warns UNICEF
By Tharanga Yakupitiyage
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 30 2015 (IPS)
If current trends continue, the number of child brides in Africa could more than double by 2050, UN’s children fund (UNICEF) warned in a new report.
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Malawi Working to Improve Nutrition Sensitive Agricultural Production
In the last few years, Malawi has successfully managed to reduce infant and under five mortality. But reducing malnutrition, which affects an estimated 1.4 million children, continues to be a costly challenge for the country. A 2015 report by [...] Read more »
Ethiopia: The Biggest African Refugee Camp No One Talks About
On a sunny November day in Addis Ababa the courtyard of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) centre is packed with people—some attend a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reception clinic, others get essential supplies, while students [...] Read more »
African Countries Feeling Exposed to Extreme Weather Changes
Extreme weather conditions, an impact of climate change faced by African countries despite contributing the least global emissions, is attracting the attention of many as the clock ticks towards the start of the 2015 United Nations Conference [...] Read more »
Zimbabwe’s Long Road in Ending Poverty and Hunger
Noel Bhizori has a permanent post at a traffic light in Bulawayo’s central business district where he sells mobile phone recharge cards at a busy intersection. “The profits are little but then this is the only means to earn a living I know,” [...] Read more »
“París Is Not the End of a Climate Change Process but a Beginning”
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Uganda, Tanzania Need Gender Sensitive Climate Change Policies
Climate Change needs to be at the top of the country’s agenda, according to a project examining Uganda’s policies. It says the country hasn’t paid enough attention to climate change in national development and agriculture plans and this needs [...] Read more »
Women Suffer Psychological Problems After Living Under Taliban
“My two sons were killed by Taliban militants mercilessly three years ago. My husband died a natural death two year back. Now, I am begging to raise my two grandsons,” Gul Pari, 50, told IPS. Pari, who is waiting for her turn at a [...] Read more »
From Darkness to Light: Dramatic Rescue of Tanzanian Miners Trapped 41 Days in Rubble
The five artisanal miners who narrowly escaped death last week after a 41-day ordeal in a collapsed gold mine in northern Tanzania called their experience a living hell. They went through a myriad of emotions soon after having been freed. [...] Read more »
Searching for Nutrition in South Africa’s Food Maze
Every Tuesday, there is something unusually exciting at no 7 Cwango Crescent, The Business Place, in Philippi, near Cape Town. Here, dozens of chemically free green vegetable crate loads are visible. So are the unlabelled rows of empty [...] Read more »
Analysis: Are Young People the Answer to Africa’s Food Security?
Are you young, energetic, creative, ambitious and need a job? Africa’s agriculture sector needs you! This is a potential sales pitch to Africa’s “youth dividend” to make a living from agriculture, considered a less attractive sector [...] Read more »
Gay Rights Activists Hope for The Pope’s Blessings in Uganda
This week Pope Francis is making his first trip to Africa in his as leader of the Catholic church. While mass excitement is building in the three host countries, Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic (CAR),among people of all religions [...] Read more »