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RSS FeedLiberia: Concern Mounts Over LNTG's Failure To provide Services
2004-09-23, Issue 175
The first meeting of the power sharing transitional government convened on September 20, 2004 with participants expressing serious concerns about the limited capacity of the government to deliver basic services to Liberians. While Liberia has made re...
South Africa: The loneliness of Zwe
2004-09-16, Issue 174
Zwelihle soaps Ndumiso thoroughly, dries him with a frayed face cloth then smears Vaseline over his square little face and body while the seven-year-old giggles and wriggles. For the past 18 months since he was 14, Zwe has been parenting his two youn...
Zimbabwe: Nine More Die As Food Crisis Deepens
2004-09-16, Issue 174
Nine more people died in Bulawayo last month due to hunger amid reports that an estimated 22 of the 58 districts in Zimbabwe have dwindling food supplies. Bulawayo Executive Mayor, Japhet Ndabeni-Ncube, told The Standard those who died were mostly c...
Gambia: Condom campaign angers Catholic Cleric
2004-09-16, Issue 174
The Roman Catholic Church has voiced its opposition to the use of condoms to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in Gambia, challenging a government-backed prevention campaign based on the distribution of cheap contraceptives to the country's youth. Fath...
Zambia: Monopolisation of poverty reduction agenda hinders success
2004-09-16, Issue 174
According to a Southern Africa Poverty Review Network (SAPRN) report on the poverty situation in Zambia, the government's monopolisation of the poverty reduction agenda was the biggest hindrance to success against poverty. The report stresses that Za...
Africa/Global: Poor countries footing reproductive bill
2004-09-16, Issue 174
Developed countries are failing to live up to their commitments to fund sexual and reproductive health care, leaving poorer countries to provide around 40 percent of the bill. This funding shortfall is undermining efforts to provide family planning s...
DRC: International medical experts urge an end to child executions
2004-09-09, Issue 173
Amnesty International and medical experts from seven countries have sent an open letter to the heads of government in China, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Philippines, Iran, Sudan and the USA urging them to stop using the death penalty ...
Sudan: Severe violations of children's rights in Darfur
2004-09-09, Issue 173
Sudanese government forces, militias, police and other security forces have committed serious violations of children's rights in Sudan's troubled western region of Darfur, according to a report by Save the Children UK, which noted that abuses include...
Ivory Coast: Rehabilitating child soldiers is a tough job
2004-09-09, Issue 173
It is a simple matter to give a child a gun, drug him up to the eyeballs and tell him to kill your enemies. But Father Henry de Penfentenyo, a Roman Catholic priest who runs a youth centre in the rebel-held north of Cote d'Ivoire, says it takes his ...
Nigeria: Huge Nigerian drive against polio
2004-09-09, Issue 173
Some 13 million children in northern Nigeria are being vaccinated against polio in a bid to wipe out the disease. About 250,000 technicians are making house calls to reach all children under five in eight states, which have become the world's polio ...
Africa: Economic insecurity fosters world ‘full of anxiety and anger’, says UN
2004-09-09, Issue 173
People in countries where income is protected report high levels of happiness, but about three quarters of the world’s workers live in circumstances of economic insecurity that foster ‘a world full of anxiety and anger,’ according to a new United Nat...
Ethiopia: Sanitation facilities severely lacking, says Unicef
2004-09-09, Issue 173
Ethiopia severely lacks sanitation facilities, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned on Tuesday, adding that a mere six percent of the population have access to basic sanitation facilities - fuelling diarrhoea and other water-borne disea...
Mozambique: Building latrines to save children's lives
2004-09-09, Issue 173
Installing latrines in a school might not seem to be a significant step for protecting children, but in fact it is. Building latrines in schools will increase the likelihood that children will use the latrines instead of open fields that may be clos...
South Africa: A nation of givers
2004-09-09, Issue 173
According to a collaborative study by the National Development Agency, the Centre for Civil Society and the Southern African Grantmakers' Association, 93 percent of South Africans contribute either time, money or goods to causes which help the poor a...
Angola: UN-backed vaccination campaign against polio in children begins
2004-09-02, Issue 172
Angola’s health authorities have begun immunizing 5 million children under the age of five against polio, part of a campaign by United Nations agencies to make sure the country is not caught up in the current wave of re-infections across Africa. Bac...
Liberia: Too little money for rehabilitation of former child combatants, UNICEF says
2004-09-02, Issue 172
The head of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) criticised donors last Thursday for failing to fund the resettlement and retraining of former combatants in Liberia once they had been disarmed. "Much effort has been put into disarmament and de...
Africa: Towards feasible social security systems in sub-Saharan Africa
2004-09-02, Issue 172
The prospects for workable social security systems in sub-Saharan Africa do not appear encouraging. This paper argues that in the current circumstances of widespread economic crisis (and the demographic impacts of the HIV/AIDS pandemic) both formal a...
Uganda: 47 children, formerly abducted by LRA, come back home
2004-09-02, Issue 172
UNICEF in Uganda urged civilian and military authorities responsible for receiving 47 formerly abducted children - repatriated from southern Sudan by the International Organization for Migration, after their abduction by the Lord’s Resistance Army (L...
South Africa: Protests at lack of development
2004-09-02, Issue 172
All those who were arrested on charges of public violence at Intabazwe in Harrismith, in the eastern Free State, have been released. Around 40 youths appeared in the Harrismith Magistrate's Court. Violence erupted when youths protesting about poor se...
Africa: The young face of NEPAD: Children and young people in the New Partnership for Africa's Development
2004-09-02, Issue 172
This paper suggests that the aspirations of NEPAD's initiators, partners and stakeholders for progress, peace and poverty-reducing growth should find their foundation in Africa's human capacity development, which in turn must start with Africa's chil...
Zimbabwe: People with Spinal Cord Injuries hold a 5-day workshop
2004-09-02, Issue 172
Gladys Charowa People with disabilities (Spinal Cord Injuries) held a five day national workshop for trainers from August 23 - 27 2004 at Ruwa National Rehabilitation Centre near the capital Harare. The aim was to physically empower newly injured...
South Africa: Billion Rand public works programme launched
2004-09-02, Issue 172
Next to Brazil, South Africa is said to be one of the most unequal societies in the world, prompting the government to place greater emphasis on poverty alleviation through public works programmes. The multi-billion rand Expanded Public Works Program...
Madagascar: UN launches anti-measles campaign
2004-08-26, Issue 171
The U.N. children's agency UNICEF is launching a measles vaccination campaign in Madagascar designed to reach 7.5 million children and halt a potentially deadly epidemic, the agency said last Tuesday. ...
Uganda: Insecurity, poverty leaves northern children vulnerable to military recruitment - UNICEF
2004-08-26, Issue 171
Insecurity and widespread poverty caused by the 18-year warfare pitting government forces against insurgents in northern Uganda has made desperate children vulnerable to recruitment as rebel fighters, the United Nations children's Fund (UNICEF) said....
Kenya: 'Miracle baby' home raid
2004-08-26, Issue 171
Police have seized 10 children for DNA testing from the Kenyan home of UK-based evangelist Gilbert Deya. A total of 21 children are now being held by Kenyan police investigating a suspected child-trafficking ring. The children, aged between five week...
Sudan: Malnutrition's insidious impact on children
2004-08-26, Issue 171
If they can escape slaughter, endure rape and survive outbreaks of infectious diseases, the thousands of young people uprooted by ethnic conflict in Sudan’s Darfur province still face food shortages that threaten to stunt forever the physical and int...
Sierra Leone: aid workers held for child smuggling
2004-08-26, Issue 171
Police in Sierra Leone have arrested the head of a local aid agency suspected of helping to smuggle 29 children out of the country for adoption in the United States, a senior police official said on Monday. Roland Kargbo, director of Help a Needy Ch...
Africa: Billions struggle without clean water and basic sanitation
2004-08-26, Issue 171
More than 2.6 billion people - over 40 per cent of the world's population - do not have basic sanitation, and more than one billion people still use unsafe sources of drinking water, warns a major report released by the World Health Organization and ...
Africa: Sub-Saharan Africa will have 20m orphans by 2010, says Engebak
2004-08-19, Issue 170
UNICEF eastern and southern Africa regional director Per Engebak has said there would be in excess of 20 million HIV/AIDS orphans in sub-Saharan Africa by 2010. Engebak said there would be four countries in Southern Africa where the orphan generation...
Tanzania: Care-seeking patterns for fatal malaria in children
2004-08-19, Issue 170
This article from Malaria Journal looks at care-seeking for fatal malaria among children under five in southern Tanzania. Findings showed that in the case of 78.7 per cent of malaria deaths, biomedical care had been used in the form of antimalarial d...
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