ZAMBIA: Give Us Our Constitution
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Kelvin Kachingwe
LUSAKA, Oct 28 (IPS) – Pressure is mounting for a new constitution that is inclusive of all citizen’s views as the ongoing delays by the body granted to draft it still continues.
Although the National Constitutional Conference (NCC) was granted a four-month extension from [...]
SWAZILAND: More Boreholes, No Water
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Mantoe Phakathi
MBABANE, Oct 28 (IPS) – In the drought-stricken area of Siteki, Tibuyile Maziya has been trying to fill up her four 20-litre buckets with water at a community for the last four hours.
With a baby on her back and two more buckets to [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE: Africa Readies United Front for Crucial Copenhagen Talks
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Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 22 (IPS) – As African leaders meet in Ethiopia to discuss the devastating impacts of climate change, the United Nations has released a report warning that the economically-troubled continent will be one of the hardest hit by the ravages of global [...]
ZAMBIA: Holding Government Responsible for Spending
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Kelvin Kachingwe
LUSAKA, Oct 20 (IPS) – The government’s change of the Budget cycle to improve its spending of money to develop the country is not good enough unless those in charge of the money are made accountable, say civil society.
Parliament this year enacted a [...]
AFRICA: Counting on Media for Good Governance
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Charles Mpaka
LILONGWE, Oct 21 (IPS) – While campaigning in the last election, Margaret Roka Mauwa, Member of the Malawian Parliament, did not promise her voters that when she won she would buy them coffins.
Currently in Malawi, aspiring MPs have offered to buy would-be voters [...]
AFRICA: Counting on Media for Good Governance
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Charles Mpaka
LILONGWE, Oct 21 (IPS) – While campaigning in the last election, Margaret Roka Mauwa, Member of the Malawian Parliament, did not promise her voters that when she won she would buy them coffins.
Currently in Malawi, aspiring MPs have offered to buy would-be voters [...]
Q&A: Africans Won’t Just Be on Receiving End of Arts and Culture
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Christi van der Westhuizen interviews MIKE VAN GRAAN, playwright and activist
CAPE TOWN, Oct 15 (IPS) – Global initiatives have in recent years stressed the contribution that arts and culture can make to development. This has led African and European artists, bureaucrats and policy makers to [...]
WATER-ZIMBABWE: New Wells Protect Environment, Build Peace
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By Vusumuzi Sifile
SHAMVA, Zimbabwe , Oct 15 (IPS) – Twenty years ago, Isaac Chidavaenzi would worry when his neighbours set up vegetable gardens on river banks, trying to get closer to water sources. The number of gardens on the rivers’ banks has now decreased, but [...]
Q&A: Small Sugar Farmers Not so Sweet on End of Sugar Protocol
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Nasseem Ackbarally interviews SALIL ROY, sugar farmer and leader of the Planters’ Reforms Association in Mauritius
PORT LOUIS, Oct 14 (IPS) – The Sugar Protocol enabling developing world sugar farmers to produce for the European market over the past 34 years ended on Sep 30. Among [...]
AFRICA: Government on Collision Course with Civil Society
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Kelvin Kachingwe
LUSAKA, Oct 14 (IPS) – The acquittal of former President Frederick Chiluba on charges of theft after a seven-year long landmark case, and the refusal by the Zambian government to appeal, has put government and civil society on a collision course.
Chiluba was charged [...]
