Articles by ANA

Johannesburg, 21 October, 2008— Models to predict the impact of climate change on potable water and the management of wastewater are needed to deal with the expected increase in water-related illnesses as result of global […]

Kwadukuza, 17 October, 2008— Computers are increasingly ubiquitous in the developing world as software and internet companies create operating systems, computing programmes, and web-based portals in hundreds of indigenous languages. Following the rapid growth of […]

Dakar, 17 October, 2008— Despite growing for centuries in some of the driest, toughest agricultural zones of West Africa, the fonio cereal has been neglected by most agricultural development programmes, according to the World Bank. […]

Port Morseby, 17 October, 2008— The 38-year-old woman first arrived at the Family Support Centre (FSC) at Port Moresby General Hospital in August 2008. “The violence has been going on for years,” she told IRIN. […]

Dakar, 15 October, 2008— More than 11,000 teachers are demanding better work conditions and more pay as they continue a nationwide strike in Gabon that started on 6 October, according to Marcel Libama, the secretary […]

Katuna, 15 October, 2008— Said*, a long-distance trucker from the Democratic Republic of Congo, is married with six children. His work keeps him on the road for weeks at a time, and on those long, […]

Dhaka, 15 October, 2008— More than 16 million children in 73,000 primary and secondary schools in Bangladesh will mark the first global hand-washing day on 15 October with a vow to keep themselves free of […]

Harare, 15 October, 2008— Tendai Moyo, 28, living in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, goes into a shop in the downtown area and heads for a shelf where, a day ago, she saw a feeding bottle […]