Month: August 2011

Drought, poor rains and continuing high fuel prices have combined to keep food prices in Eastern Africa high, with consumers forgoing basic staples and many traders being forced to shut down their businesses. IRIN spoke […]

The food crisis that is devastating lives and killing children throughout the Horn of Africa is not restricted to the arid lands where media attention and donor dollars are now focused. In informal urban settlements, […]

As conflicting reports come in of rebel advances on the Libyan capital Tripoli, civil society organizations and international NGOs in the rebel capital, Benghazi, are trying to help vulnerable people cope with difficult conditions. At […]

The wordy warfare between the Ghana News Agency (GNA) and the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) over the GNA’s news report (“IEA slams NPP for abuse of incumbency in Election 2008” filed on Sunday, August […]

When Marie Jalloh first ran for office in 2007, resistance to women in politics in Sierra Leone was so strong she faced harassment and intimidation from local authorities. Now, not only is she a member […]

Many thought John Otim, a resident of Lakwanga, Amuru district of northern Uganda, a maniac, for returning to the killing fields in 2008; and indulge in organic cotton growing, dreaming of becoming rich and powerful. […]

Am heutigen Dienstag besuchte der Bundesminister für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung, Dirk Niebel, auf seiner Keniareise das Flüchtlingslager Dadaab. Dirk Niebel: „Mir war es wichtig, einen eigenen Eindruck von der aktuellen Situation zu gewinnen. Das […]

In choosing to look beyond material wealth and for disregarding personal property-grabbing as the objective for being in office, President J.E.A. Mills has put himself in a class of his own. Since entering office, he […]