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10/12/2009
Q&A
Women's Empowerment: 'Men Are Interested'
Evelyn Matsamura Kiapi interviews CHRIS BARYOMUNSI, Ugandan member of parliament
A trident of gender legislation will be debated in Uganda's parliament in November: the Marriage and Divorce Bill, the Domestic Violence Bill and the Female Genital Mutilation Bill.
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10/10/2009
RIGHTS
Police Force HIV Tests for Sex Workers
By Charles Mpaka
A Malawian sex worker who says she was forced by police to undergo an HIV test. Credit:Charles Mpaka It was, Malawian police say, a routine sweep for criminals at one of the country’s busiest border posts. They were looking for criminals.
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10/9/2009
TRADE
NGOs Welcome EU Vow Not to Push Africa into EPAs
By Isolda Agazzi
Non-governmental organisations have expressed their satisfaction at the European Commission’s declaration that it would not put "undue pressure" on African and other countries to conclude the controversial trade deals called economic partnership agreements (EPAs).
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SOUTHERN AFRICA
Lack of Clean Groundwater a Health Threat
By Ignatius Banda
As the rainy season approaches, and sewage from pit latrines seep further into the Zimbabwe's groundwater, Irene Ngubeni will be at risk as the country faces another possible cholera outbreak.
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SIERRA LEONE
Journalists at War with Highest Court
By Mohamed Fofanah
Umaru Fofana looks dishevelled. His hair is overgrown and people who do not know him could be mistaken for thinking he just joined an Afro band. And his hanging beard will surely solicit suspicious glances.
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10/8/2009
AGRICULTURE-NIGERIA
Bagging Beans Against Beetles
By Salma Ahmad Kano
In September, ten people died - twenty more were hospitalised - after eating beans contaminated by farmers in an attempt to protect them from pests in storage. Credit: Wikicommons Cowpeas are of vital importance to the diets and livelihood of millions of people in West and Central Africa. But the crop is notoriously difficult to store - beetles and other pests can destroy an entire granary full of cowpeas within 12 months.
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EDUCATION-ZIMBABWE
Students Quit Classes - and Country - As Crisis Deepens
By Ignatius Banda
Schooling is increasingly becoming a privilege of the rich, , Zimbabwean parents and teachers' unions complain.
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HEALTH
Criminalisation of Abortion 'The Wrong Concept'
By Kristin Palitza
One hundred African women and girls die unnecessarily from unsafe abortions every day because they have to rely on unqualified medical practitioners or self-induce abortion by ingesting poisonous substances or inserting tools into their uterus.
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POLITICS-GUINEA
Uncertainty Prevails Under Increasingly Isolated Junta
By Saliou Samb
Under growing pressure ten days after a violent crackdown, killed 157 civilians, Guinean junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara has announced an independent committee of inquiry into the deaths.
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10/7/2009
NIGERIA
Fish Could Play Greater Role In Food Security
By Toluwa Olusegun
John Sewanu in his dugout Credit: Toluwa Olusegun/IPS The smell of roasting fish fills the air as one approaches the bungalow a few metres from the shore of the lagoon. Like most families in the village schoolteacher John Sewanu and his family of seven depend on the sea for food and income.
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