Articles by ANA

Mbabane, 19 September, 2008— Swaziland’s humanitarian crises were uppermost in the minds of voters casting their ballots in the parliamentary election on 19 September. “I don’t care about politics, I care about feeding my family. […]

Bulawayo, 19 September, 2008— Zimbabweans woke up to frustrating news on 19 September that the country’s main political parties – ZANU-PF and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) – were deadlocked over the allocation of […]

Johannesburg, 19 September, 2008— Zimbabwe’s political agreement is yet to reverse the flow of migrants looking for a better life in South Africa; smuggling people in and food out remains a thriving business, with long-distance […]

Nairobi, 12 September, 2008— Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary-General, warns in a new report that the gains made in reducing extreme poverty are under threat from the rise in global food and fuel prices and […]

Khartoum, 12 September, 2008— Increasing violence in the western Sudanese region of Darfur is threatening the delivery of humanitarian aid to hundreds of thousands of desperately needy people, UN officials have warned. “Military bombardments and […]

Gicumbi, 5 September, 2008— Over the years local residents of Rebero in Gicumbi District north of the Rwandan capital of Kigali, watched as their soil was washed away by rain. They also had to contend […]

Dakar, 5 September, 2008— Hundreds attending the first all-African carbon forum agreed entrepreneurs in Africa need cash to break into the expanding international carbon emissions trading market. Polluters looking for credits The carbon forum matched […]

An interesting editorial appeared in the Ghanaian Chronicle newspaper edition of Friday, August 29, 2008. The editorial was limpidly titled “The Assassination Plot against Obama” and decried the allegedly uncovered plot to liquidate the African-American […]