Africa
Desert Locusts to Threaten Crops in the Sahel Region–International Assistance Badly Needed
FAO, Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture (GIEWS), June 2, 2004) Bulletin: Swarms Expected to Form in NW Africa and Move to Sahel ...
Are Women the Key to African Growth?
With brightly coloured mats on their head, rural women arrive in Kampala looking to sell their goods.A woman pumping water from a well Women make a big contribution to Africa's economy These mats and pots are often made at home. For many rural women, their main activity is growing enough food to eat...
Letter from Northern Uganda
(Kampala, April 8, 2004) I arrived in Uganda on September 15, 2003 to begin my first year as a Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellow, placed with the United States Agency for International Development's Uganda mission. A few months before I arrived I was told that I would be acting as the Human...
South African Poor’s Education Struggle
Lucia Sikhakhane, 17, regards her school - Bophasenatla Secondary - as one of the best schools in Soweto. students peeping from broken windows Schools in poor suburbs lack proper facilities "The education is offered is good, even though we lack materials. The teachers teach well."...
Only Peace Can End Food Crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, World Food Programme Official Says
(Nairobi, March 13, 2004) Severe food shortages and malnutrition will continue to plague hundreds of thousands of people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) unless insecurity comes to an end, the deputy executive director of the UN World Food Program (WFP), Sheila Sisulu, said on Friday. ...
Central African Republic: Impact of War on the Northeast
(BANGUI, March 3, 2004) Cotton farmer Faustin Bagaza, 55, wears the cloak of poverty around him even tighter these days. Despite harvesting his crop for two successive years, he has made no sales. The reason? A rebellion in northwestern Central African Republic (CAR) that has devastated the country'...
Land Reform in Namibia: Slow Pace, Debatable Benefits
JOHANNESBURG, February 19, 2004 (IRIN) Namibia's land reform process is being questioned by some who find the pace too slow, while others argue that its benefits are debatable. The Agricultural (Commercial) Land Reform Act of 1995 provides for the acquisition of agricultural land by the governmen...
A Dog’s Life for Mothers in Northern Ugandan Refugee Camps
(January 27, 2004) A pregnant woman must visit a maternity facility for medical check-ups at least three times in her nine months of pregnancy, and one or two times after delivery. Not so for the woman in the congested displaced people's camp in northern Uganda with few health centres nearby. "We...
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