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Zimbabwe: IFJ calls for release of newspaper editor
Pambazuka - Thursday, May 08, 2008
2008-05-08
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called for the release of Davison Maruziva, the editor of a privately owned weekly The Standard, who has been arrested and charged with "false statements prejudicial to the state and contempt of court" after his paper published an opinion piece by a leading... more
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Nigeria: Legislators urged to pass FOI bill
Pambazuka - Thursday, May 08, 2008
2008-05-08
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on the members of Nigeria's House of Representatives to stop delaying the passage of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill after its consideration was deferred for the fifth time last ... more
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Africa: Press freedom wanting in Africa
Pambazuka - Thursday, May 08, 2008
2008-05-08
The tussle between governments and the media over what the public should know have been raging for several years not only in Africa, but across the globe. Governments react to media footage by closing down the media offices, conducting raids on the premises, beating up journalists, shooting or jailing... more
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Global: Nigerians in the UK urge boycott of British Airways
Pambazuka - Thursday, May 08, 2008
2008-05-08
British Airways has been criticised over its handling of a forced deportation and its treatment of Nigerian passengers on a flight from Heathrow airport. Passengers on board the 27 March BA flight to Lagos began to protest about the manhandling of Augustine Eme, a Biafran independence activist, who was allegedly... more
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South Africa: Counselling programme successfully promotes exclusive breast feeding
Pambazuka - Thursday, May 08, 2008
2008-05-09
A South African cohort study has shown that it is possible to increase rates of exclusive breast feeding among HIV-positive and HIV-negative women and their newborns in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The results of the study are reported in the April 23rd edition of ... more
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Malawi: ARVs reduce mortality
Pambazuka - Thursday, May 08, 2008
2008-05-09
Free antiretroviral therapy had significantly reduced mortality in rural Malawi , a study published in the latest Lancet journal has shown. Malawi, which records about 80 000 deaths from AIDS every year, made free ARV therapy available to more than 80 000 patients between 2004 and ... more
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Malawi: Aids deaths drop
Pambazuka - Thursday, May 08, 2008
2008-05-08
Distributing free anti-HIV drugs in a district of Aids-ravaged Malawi helped cut the death toll by 10 percent within eight months, according to a study published on Saturday by The Lancet. The southern African country introduced free anti-retroviral therapy from 2004, thanks to help from the Global Fund for Aids,... more
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Africa: One in three malaria drugs failing
Pambazuka - Thursday, May 08, 2008
2008-05-09
Some 35% of antimalarial drugs sold in six major African cities failed basic quality tests according to a study published today in PLoS ONE, a peer-reviewed open-access journal. The cities were in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The study further found that artemisinin monotherapies,... more
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Sudan: successful donor conference in Oslo
Pambazuka - Thursday, May 08, 2008
2008-05-08
Donor countries pledged a total of USD 4.8 billion for assistance to Sudan during the Sudan Consortium in Oslo from 5 to 7 May.‘The donor conference was a great success, primarily because it demonstrated that there is strong political will behind the efforts to promote peace and development in Sudan,’... more
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Southern Africa: Small can be beautiful
Pambazuka - Thursday, May 08, 2008
2008-05-08
s small the new big when it comes to agriculture in Southern Africa? As rising food prices place this sector firmly in the spotlight, there are compelling examples at hand to make the case for greater investment in small-scale farming. In an interview with IPS, Pedro Sanchez -- director of... more
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Kenya: Comparing cash-transfer and job-creation programmes
Pambazuka - Thursday, May 08, 2008
2008-05-08
What links employment and poverty? This International Poverty Centre paper examines the links between poverty and unemployment, underemployment, employment and labour earnings in Kenya. It finds that poor workers need short-term social protection and all workers need an effective, long-term and employment-focused development strategy. The paper simulates the potential impact... more
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South Africa: Fight against corruption weakened by disbanding of police unit
Pambazuka - Thursday, May 08, 2008
2008-05-09
Transparency International (TI) is gravely concerned about news confirming the disbanding of the Directorate of Special Operations, South Africa’s specialised unit located within the independent National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) dedicated to fighting corruption and organised crime known as the Scorpions. “With this decision, South Africa undermines its anti-corruption advances and... more
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South Africa: "Scorpions" boss to join World Bank
Pambazuka - Thursday, May 08, 2008
2008-05-08
The head of South Africa's Scorpions crime-fighting unit, Leonard McCarthy, was appointed on Monday to head the World Bank's anti-corruption unit. World Bank President Robert Zoellick, in a statement, said South African President Thabo Mbeki had agreed to release McCarthy from service to take up the position as vice president... more
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Libya: Gadaffi tells government to hand out oil money
Pambazuka - Thursday, May 08, 2008
2008-05-09
Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi accused a "corrupt" government of failing to manage the country's oil wealth and ordered it to hand out oil money directly to the country's five million people. Western diplomats said the call, late on Wednesday, appeared aimed at putting pressure on the government to speed up... more
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Chinese merchants set up shop in Morocco
Pambazuka - Thursday, May 08, 2008
2008-05-09
An increasing number of Chinese-owned kissarias (stores) are springing up in Casablanca, Morocco’s economic centre. While some Moroccan merchants decry what they consider unfair price competition and poor merchandise quality, the government is working to impose ... more
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Zimbabwe: Run-off election possible within 12 months
Pambazuka - Thursday, May 08, 2008
2008-05-08
Head of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) Observer Mission to Zimbabwe Marwick Khumalo told reporters on Wednesday that a run-off election, if decided upon, could be held within the next 12 months. "... last night [I] spoke to the Chairman of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission [George Chiweshe] who told me... more
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Zimbabwe: Opposition rejects presidential run-off
Pambazuka - Thursday, May 08, 2008
2008-05-08
Zimbabwe's opposition MDC will not participate in a presidential run-off against Robert Mugabe, a top party official said on Thursday, after reports of escalating violence deepened a post-election crisis. The Movement for Democratic Change believes its leader Morgan Tsvangirai won the outright majority in the March 29 election he needed... more
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Sudan Government says 90 percent covered on last day of census
Pambazuka - Thursday, May 08, 2008
2008-05-08
Sudan’s highly politicised census drew to a close on Tuesday with monitors estimating the country was 90 percent covered, although many in the capital Khartoum said they had not yet been counted. The census will help determine wealth and power sharing between Sudan’s north and south — which fought a... more
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Mauritania: Premier replaced
Pambazuka - Thursday, May 08, 2008
2008-05-08
Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi on Tuesday appointment Yahya Ould Ahmed El Waghev as the new Prime Minister. El Waghev, Chief Presidential Secretary and the head of the National Pact for Development and Democracy (PNDD-ADIL), replaced Zein Ould Zeidane who resigned after an audience with the President at... more
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Ghana: Blending traditional institutions into government
Pambazuka - Thursday, May 08, 2008
2008-05-08
Part of the complications of Ghana’s development is that its elites who are expected to know better appear wanting.It is when they are out of power, as former President Jerry Rawlings will tell you, that they realise they neither thought well nor understood what they were doing, says Kofi ... more
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