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Africa’s health worker shortage woes
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The first Global Forum on Human Resources for Health opened in Uganda’s capital Kampala three days ago acknowledging that African countries more than any others in the world have borne the brunt of health workers shortages. Medical health professionals, mainly doctors and nurses are still leaving the continent to take up better paid jobs in the health services of other countries in the West where pay and working conditions are better.
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6 March 2008
Kampala,-Uganda
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The true cost of democracy in Kenya
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Not even the pledge by Prime minister-designate Raila Odinga to rebuild Kenya after a deal to end the two-month political crisis could restore confidence in this battered economy. Hundreds have died, and more than 600,000 Kenyans have been forced out of their homes due to ethnic violence.
What really is the true cost of democracy in Kenya?
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3 March 2008
Nairobi,-Kenya
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Is Mugabe on the brink?
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The endorsement of Simba Makoni, a former Zimbabwean finance minister who plans to challenge Robert Mugabe for the presidency, by former Interior Minister Dumiso Dabengwa has caused a stir in Harare.
Dumiso Dabengwa, a key Zanu-PF member has empahasized the need for a new leadership as the reason for his endorsement. But some political analysts think otherwise. The general feeling is that Mugabe is on the brink of losing his influence on Zimbabwe, a country he has tightly controlled for almost three decades. Mugabe’s dwindling influence could also be due to the deplorable state of the economy.
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3 March 2008
Harare,-Zimbabwe
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Amnesty intervenes in Nigeria
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Amnesty International has written to the Nigerian government calling on them to provide Henry Okah and Edward Atatah immediate access to lawyers and their families.
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3 March 2008
London,-United Kingdom
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UNAIDS reports worldwide HIV prevalence has leveled off
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Africa Action, an NGO says the revised estimates of the global AIDS pandemic published yesterday by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) is encouraging news, but cautions that HIV/AIDS still has severe
impacts on Africa.
The report shows that sub-Saharan African countries
are home to 68 % of the people living with HIV worldwide. According to
the new data, eight countries in the region comprise almost one-third of all new HIV infections and AIDS deaths globally, and HIV/AIDS remains the leading cause of death in the region. Africa Action warns that this new report should not be misinterpreted to indicate that current funding levels and the international response are adequate to address the pandemic.
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21 Nov. 2007
Washington DC,-USA
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Zambia-Chinese co-operation
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Zambia‘s energy company, Zesco and Synohydro Corporation of China have signed a multi-million dollar agreement for the extension of a hydro-power station in the country. This will involve the extension of the existing Kariba North Bank power station located at Kariba on the Zambezi River some 225 kilometres south of Lusaka.
The US$243 million deal was signed in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, on November 19. According to the agreement, 85 percent of the project will be financed by the Export- Import Bank of China to cover engineering, procurement and construction.
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20 Nov. 2007
Lusaka,-Zambia
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DRC's river refugees' fears
An estimated 108,000 refugees have fled across the River Ubangui (pictured) from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to the Republic of Congo. The River, which borders the DRC and the Republic of Congo, now has refugees camped in about 90 different sites along 500 kilometres of its banks, creating a logistically challenging situation for humanitarian agencies operating in the region. With rebel activity in the DRC rife, can the refugees return home anytime soon?
Photo: Daniel Dickinson / European Commission
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War, religious extremism and the future in the Horn of Africa
Religious extremism, poverty, local power struggles between clans and warlords has devastated Somalia. The interconnectedness of this regionÂ’s countries and people has also meant that SomaliaÂ’s internal battles have engulfed other countries in the Horn of Africa, spreading to the wider African continent and to other countries outside of Africa. Some of these non-African countries have gotten involved in SomaliaÂ’s struggles for religious, political or security reasons. Somali piracy is also on the increase in the regionÂ’s seas and the export of terrorism from the country is a major concern. What is the future for Somalia, a failed state and its neighbours? Is it SomaliaÂ’s fate to remain a volatile conflict prone country?
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