Johannesburg, 18 June, 2008— More than 5 million Zimbabweans will suffer food insecurity in the next nine months, a million people more than the previous year, the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and World Food […]

Bujumbura, 17 June, 2008— Burundi’s last active rebel leader, Agathon Rwasa, has declared the end of the armed struggle against the government at a ceremony to mark the formal start of the cantonment of his […]

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 […]

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 […]

Baghdad, 22 May, 2008— Iraq is suffering from water shortages that could lead to widespread drought as a result of the water policies of neighbouring countries and an unusually dry winter, the Iraqi Water Resources […]