JOHANNESBURG, 7 November 2007 (IRIN) - An off-the-cuff remark by a leading trade unionist that millions of South Africans were economically better off under apartheid than under democratic rule has highlighted the country's stubborn poverty rates, Read more >>
DAKAR, 8 November 2007 (IRIN) - Surrounded by the 103 African children caught up in an alleged abduction plot by a French charity, Chadian president Idriss Déby appeared before photographers and journalists from around the world, standing up for the rights of Chadian children.Full story >>
GULU, 16 October 2007 (IRIN) - Two years ago Gulu was a war town. Every morning the people would wake up to the sound of hundreds of children making their way back home after a night seeking refuge from the Lord’s Resistance Army in the town’s shelters. In the evening, buses would race up from Kampala to make the city limits before nightfall. Full story >>
KINSHASA, 6 November 2007 (IRIN) - A senior DRC official has declared the war-ravaged northeastern region of Ituri free of armed groups after 16 senior commanders flew to Kinshasa to join the regular army. Full story >>
NABLUS/JAYYOUS, WEST BANK, 29 October 2007 (IRIN) - Autumn in the West Bank is usually a festive season when families harvest the olives together but this year's Palestinian crop has again been marked by violence and restrictions on land access. Full story >>
COTONOU, 29 October 2007 (IRIN) - Experiments in new agricultural techniques by a Benin research centre could give a considerable boost to farmers living with HIV/AIDS.
Comlan Houessou, head of the network of people living with HIV/AIDS in Benin, was fascinated to learn about projects by the Songhaï Centre in the capital, Porto Novo, to develop inexpensive agricultural production systems based on agrobiology.Full story >>
ZIMBABWE: HIV-positive pastor shouts from the pulpit HARARE, 4 October 2007 (IRIN) - Rev Maxwell Kapachawo is the only known pastor in Zimbabwe who publicly admits to being HIV-positive; he is also encouraging any of his peers infected and affected by the disease to speak openly about HIV/AIDS from the pulpit. Full story >>
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