Teodato Hunguana, a leading parliamentary deputy from Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party, last Wednesday called for a return to the practice of "political and organisational offensives" to deal with corruption.
The cultural practice of the extended family caring for orphans is rapidly unravelling in Botswana under the strain of HIV/AIDS, exposing children to possible exploitation.
Officials at the Social Security Commission (SSC) paid two investment brokers N$5 million to manage funds allocated illegally. Most of the money was eventually shared as kickbacks, a probe into the parastatal reveals.
A report published by Greenpeace suggests that the US administration is using the famine in southern Africa as a marketing tool to push GM food in the continent. The document details how the offer of GM food aid by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the latest move in a ten-year marketing campaign designed to facilitate the introduction of US-developed GM crops into Africa.
The WWF is calling on governments around the world to undertake comprehensive risk assessment of coastlines and to identify Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas (PSSAs) after an Italian freighter ran aground off the East coast of South Africa.
Charities in KwaZulu-Natal lost about R100-million in donations because of the change-over from a provincial to a national lottery, according to a comparison of funding done by the two lottery organisations.
A huge new research initiative, PROTA, aims to produce an Internet database, a CDROM and a 16-volume handbook of critically reviewed knowledge on 7000 useful African plant species. PROTA will promote the use of these resources for sustainable land-use, biodiversity and rural development.
The Kenyan government will deploy about 52,000 personnel from the Ministry of Education, retired teachers and other government officials to administer national examinations following the two-week national strike by teachers pressing for the implementation of a pay award.
Thousands of teachers from two rival unions joined forces Tuesday in observing a strike for more pay and better working conditions. Members of the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ), which called the strike, and the Zimbabwe Teachers' Association (Zimta), whose leadership had opposed it, both staged sit-ins at schools around the country.
As the stalemate between striking teachers and the government threatens to enter into the third week with no solution in sight, The East African Standard speaks to Professor Okoth Okombo of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Nairobi and the Secretary of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut), Nairobi branch, Mr Kamau Mureu, on the implication of the strike and the possible ways out of it.
