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IRIN: Africa News
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WEST AFRICA: Region among the world’s hungriest DAKAR, 14 October 2008 (IRIN) - The 2008 Global Hunger Index (GHI) says sub-Saharan African countries have the highest level of hunger in the world, with Niger, Sierra Leone and Liberia experiencing “extremely alarming levels of hunger,” however, this is still an improvement over 1990 levels.
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KENYA: Worsening food insecurity in the north NAIROBI, 14 October 2008 (IRIN) - Levels of malnutrition are rising in parts of northern Kenya while food insecurity is expected to further deteriorate to high and extreme levels in the region, officials warned.
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ETHIOPIA: Emergency beneficiaries increase to 6.4 million ADDIS ABABA, 14 October 2008 (IRIN) - More than six million people in Ethiopia now require emergency food assistance because of drought and rising food prices, according to the government, revising a June estimate of 4.6 million needy people. The official figure in April was 2.2 million.
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SENEGAL: Protecting livelihoods through mangroves ZIGUINCHOR, 14 October 2008 (IRIN) - Mangroves, one of the world's richest ecosystems, are declining in Casamance, southern Senegal, and thinning forests spurred the Senegal-based non-profit Oceanium to plant six million mangrove trees in a bid to reverse deforestation, thereby boosting fish stocks and reviving livelihoods.
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LIBERIA: Would you fight again? MONROVIA, 14 October 2008 (IRIN) - Female ex-combatants are twice as likely as men to take up weapons again to escape poverty, based on a recent US-funded survey of more than 1,000 former fighters in Liberia. Almost 30 percent of the people surveyed said they were willing to take up arms again to earn a living wage, family and community acceptance, and respect for their tribe or religion.
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WEST AFRICA: Voices from exile DAKAR, 13 October 2008 (IRIN) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, has appealed to international donors not to cut back on aid to humanitarian programmes amid a global financial crisis that has shuttered financial institutions in rich countries. At the conclusion of UNHCR's annual meeting in Geneva from 6-10 October, Guterres said refugees remain the most vulnerable victims of the global economic fallout.
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LIBERIA: Mental health problems breed violence MONROVIA, 13 October 2008 (IRIN) - Liberia's only mental health specialist says the country is experiencing an increase in post-traumatic stress disorders because the country's two disarmament processes during 14 years of conflict did not address the psychosocial needs of ex-combatants, especially that of youths.
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ZIMBABWE: Power-sharing deal collapsing HARARE, 13 October 2008 (IRIN) - Former South African president Thabo Mbeki is expected to arrive soon in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, in a bid to salvage a power-sharing deal that is in danger of collapsing a month after it was signed.
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GUINEA-BISSAU: Cholera epidemic not yet peaked DAKAR, 13 October 2008 (IRIN) - The cholera epidemic is still out of control across Guinea-Bissau, with the number of cases doubling in the past three weeks, bringing the total number of people stricken to 10,476 as of 9 October.
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MOZAMBIQUE: Love, or the next best thing, for sale MAPUTO, 13 October 2008 (IRIN) - When classes finish at Francisco Manyanga Secondary School in Maputo, capital of Mozambique, most teachers and students head for the bus while others walk home. Júlia*, 16, a 10th-grade student, gets into a luxury car, where a man who looks to be in his 40s waits for her. The man is not her father, but her boyfriend, Lucas*.
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MALI: When the world’s deserts flood DAKAR, 10 October 2008 (IRIN) - In August floods loosened the dry caked Sahelian earth in Gao, northern Mali, affecting more than 1,000 people, many of whom temporarily took refuge in area schools. While displaced families have since vacated schools in time for the beginning of the school year on 6 October, many families remain homeless, according to the Mali Red Cross.
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SIERRA LEONE: Government tightens control of NGOs DAKAR, 10 October 2008 (IRIN) - Officials in Sierra Leone are drafting a new law that will tighten controls on non-profit organisations working in the country, joining other governments demanding more accountability from their donors.
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UGANDA: New centre to boost paediatric HIV care KAMPALA, 10 October 2008 (IRIN) - Children living with HIV in Uganda have been given greater access to treatment with a new paediatric HIV care centre opened at the main referral hospital in the capital, Kampala.
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ZIMBABWE: How do you rein in 231 million percent inflation? JOHANNESBURG, 10 October 2008 (IRIN) - Zimbabwe's official annual inflation rate reached 231 million percent in early October, from the July estimate of 11.2 million percent, and the deadlock in talks between the ruling ZANU-PF and opposition parties is likely to push hyperinflation higher.
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DRC-RWANDA: Fighting flares as civilians run in eastern Congo BUNIA/KIGALI, 10 October 2008 (IRIN) - Serious fighting has broken out in the Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province and in the neighbouring district of Ituri, with thousands of civilians displaced, and others cut off, amid claims that foreign troops had deployed in parts of the east.
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AFRICA: ‘Sexually-transmitted grades’ kills quality education DAKAR, 10 October 2008 (IRIN) - Sexual exploitation in African schools has become so widespread that children have come up with their own terms to refer to sexual relations with their teachers. From ‘Sexually Transmitted Grades' to ‘BF', or bordel fatigue, which refers to exhaustion from multiple sexual activities with teachers, this slang hints at the prevalence of exploitation in Africa's learning environments.
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KENYA: Government launches anti-malaria campaign NAIROBI, 10 October 2008 (IRIN) - Kenya's Ministry of Health has launched a four-day nationwide campaign to retreat at least 1.8 million bed nets with long-lasting insecticide to control the spread of malaria as the rainy season sets in, a senior health official said.
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SAHEL: Voices from clandestinity AGADEZ, 9 October 2008 (IRIN) - The International Organization for Migration estimates that up to 35,000 sub-Saharan clandestine migrants leave for North Africa and Europe every year. But researchers concede the near impossibility to track what is carried out in secrecy, facilitated by family connections and favours, bribes and beatings. Despite increased security crackdowns and forced mass expulsions by North African security forces, thousands of West African migrants still attempt the desert crossing from northern Niger through the gateway town of Agadez. The following migrants IRIN met asked to remain anonymous.
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SWAZILAND: Go west young man or woman MBABANE, 9 October 2008 (IRIN) - King Mswati has directed Swaziland's college graduates to leave the country to find employment, admitting that a lack of jobs at home gives them no alternative.
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KENYA: Rising demand for male circumcision KISUMU, 9 October 2008 (IRIN) - Health facilities in Nyanza Province in western Kenya are struggling to meet the demand for medical male circumcisions since politicians threw their weight behind efforts to promote the procedure as a way of reducing HIV infections.
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ZIMBABWE: WFP makes emergency US$140 million appeal JOHANNESBURG, 9 October 2008 (IRIN) - Emergency food assistance for nearly half of Zimbabwe's 12 million population could run out at the peak of the crisis if donors fail to provide US$140 million, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said in a statement on 9 October.
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