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Long distance drivers face serious health risks in Africa. Credit: Tinus de Jager/IPS
Truck drivers in Africa faces a serious risk of contracting HIV/Aids, but a new initiative could go a long way in educating them about the risks involved. Sipho Stuurman reports from Johannesburg
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By Ignatius Banda*
Female subsistence farmers, who form more than 70 percent of farmers on the continent, remain clueless about climate change issues. / Busani Bafana
BULAWAYO, May 22 (IPS) – Gertrude Mkoloi earns a living harvesting maize on a small piece of land in rural Zimbabwe. Or at least she used to.
Deep in rural Binga, more [...]
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By Cam McGrath
An elected government is unlikely to dislodge military might in Egypt. / Cam McGrath/IPS.
CAIRO, May 22 (IPS) – As Egyptians prepare to elect their country’s first president since the uprising that toppled dictator Hosni Mubarak, the military junta that has ruled for the last 15 months has shown little sign it is [...]
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By Kristin Palitza
Professor Thandika Mkandawire says Africa needs to mobilise its domestic resources. / Kristin Palitza/IPS
CAPE TOWN, May 22 (IPS) – Africa needs to reduce its dependency on foreign aid and get to the point of financing its own development, some of the continent’s key development experts say. Timing is optimal now that [...]
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By Jonathan Migneault and Jamila Akweley Okertchiri
Students at the Autism Awareness, Care and Treatment Centre doing arts and crafts. / Jamila Akweley Okertchiri/IPS
ACCRA, May 18 (IPS) – At first glance Nortey Quaynor looks like any ordinary 29-year-old Ghanaian. If you spend a little time with him, though, you soon realise that something is [...]
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By Jared Ferrie
South Sudanese returnees arrive in Juba on one of the first flights of an airlift that will return 12,000 nationals. / Jared Ferrie/IPS
JUBA, May 18 (IPS) – In the wake of border tensions the United Nations is airlifting 12,000 southerners from a Sudanese frontier town into South Sudan. But they are returning [...]
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By Souleymane Gano
Malian rebels do not have the support of most ethnic groups in the north of the country. / William Lloyd-George/IPS
DAKAR, May 18 (IPS) – U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson says Malian soldiers who overthrew the government on Mar. 22 have neither the right to remain in [...]
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Posted by
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Miriam Gathigah interviews MICHAEL SUDARKASA, chief executive officer of the African Business Group.
Michael Sudarkasa, chief executive officer of the African Business Group, says economic and social growth are at the heart of IBSA's development. / Miriam Gathigah
NAIROBI, May 15 (IPS) – Economic and social growth have become the heart of the development agenda of [...]
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