Articles by ANA

Lusaka, 11 June, 2008— A pilot project to rehabilitate thousands of children living on the streets of the Zambian capital of Lusaka is failing because government is excluding civil society from the programme, civic leaders […]

Harar, 10 June, 2008— Expecting that the rains would fall soon so she could plant some vegetables, Nuria Mohammed sold her five cattle cheaply to raise some money to buy food for her family. “I […]

Washington, 10 June, 2008— On January 6, dozens of tall, lanky young men originally from Sudan gathered at Harry S. Truman College in Chicago to celebrate their birthdays. They weren’t really all born around the […]

Bangkok, 3 June, 2008— Aid workers have expressed concerns over reports of cyclone survivors prematurely returning to their places of origin in Myanmar’s devastated Ayeyarwady Delta. In the town of Myaungmya, which was moderately affected […]

Rophi, Oromiya, 28 May, 2008— Genetu Dekebo’s children were on the verge of starvation at the time she decided to seek treatment at Rophi therapeutic feeding centre in southern Ethiopia’s Oromiya regional state. “We could […]

Washington, 27 May, 2008— Ethiopia has mobilized its media, schools, judicial and law enforcement agencies, as well as commercial, cultural, artistic and scientific groups to press home the need for intellectual property (IP) protection to […]

When I initially heard about the People’s National Convention’s evidently expedient electoral alliance with the rump-Convention People’s Party, I laughed so hard that I almost fell off my chair. I, however, couldn’t stop torrential tears […]

Talk is cheap, as the saying goes; and this is precisely the kind of otiose and regressive maelstrom that most of postcolonial Africa continues to suffer: Cheap talk, woefully unmatched by progressive and constructive deeds. […]