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By Isaiah Esipisu
A pregnant woman in Kenya's North Eastern Province with one of her children. Overpopulation in the area contributes to poor maternal health. / Isaiah Esipisu/IPS
GARISSA, Kenya, Dec 19 (IPS) – The Garissa Maternal Shelter in North Eastern Province, Kenya is the only such facility in an area with the country’s highest [...]
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By Ignatius Banda
More than 70 percent of Africans – the majority of whom are women –rely on farming for survival. / Ignatius Banda/IPS
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Dec 20 (IPS) – Duduzile Sibanda takes a break from preparing her long stretch of land for her maize crop in rural Mberengwa, in Zimbabwe’s Midlands province. She wipes [...]
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By Isaiah Esipisu
Lukmanu Whumbi, a farmer in Northern Ghana, points to fields of rice grown using the right inputs and techniques. / Isaiah Esipisu/IPS
TAMALE, Ghana, Dec 21 (IPS) – In Dundo village in Nyankpala district, Northern Ghana, 10 women are busy weeding a rice field on a piece of land donated to them [...]
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By Amanda Wilson
A sack of cassiterite (tin ore) at a trader’s house in Nyabibwe, DRC. / Courtesy of Global Witness
WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (IPS) – Electronics are at the top of many holiday gift lists in the U.S. this season, but some of those products could be made using minerals from areas of the world [...]
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By Meena Bhandari
The Gola Forest is bisected by several of Sierra Leone's major rivers. / Courtesy of David Zeller/Gola Programme
FREETOWN, Dec 22 (IPS) – Sierra Leone’s Gola Rainforest remains a centre of contention as the local community here plan to take their chief to court next week over a controversial 50-year land lease to [...]
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By Correspondents * – IPS/Al Jazeera
DOHA, Dec 22 (IPS) – Security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been responsible for the deaths of at least 24 people since President Joseph Kabila's re-election was announced on Dec. 9, Human Rights Watch says.
"At least 24 people were killed by security forces between December 9 and [...]
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By Fawzia Sheikh
Canada de-prioritised eight African countries a few years after listing them as top concerns without notifying many governments beforehand. / Aimable Twahirwa/IPS
TORONTO, Dec 22 (IPS) – Many Canadian civil society organisations working in international development are still awaiting a definitive answer about future government funding, a months-long lag critics a
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By Abdul Samba Brima and Jessica McDiarmid
Elizabeth Zainab Kargbo suffers from epileptic seizures. Suffers in Sierra Leone are often undiagnosed and unaware that their condition is treatable. / Jessica McDiarmid/IPS
FREETOWN, DEC 23 (IPS) – Elizabeth Zainab Kargbo was a successful young woman, eight months pregnant and working in Sierra Leone’s civil service, when she [...
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