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AGRICULTURE-SENEGAL: Groundnut Production in Freefall By Koffigan E. Adigbli KAOLACK, Senegal - Farmers are complaining about a lack of technical assistance and the poor quality of seeds they've planted this year in the Kaolack region, Senegal's groundnut-producing area, 200 kilometres south of the capital Dakar. MORE >>
MIDEAST: Israel Divided Over 'Illegal' Children By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler TEL AVIV - "Migrant workers bring with them a profusion of diseases - hepatitis, measles, tuberculosis, AIDS and drug addiction: Our critics can be as sanctimonious as they like, but unless we stop the wave of migrant workers, the whole character of the State of Israel, its Jewish character, will be under threat." MORE >>
WATER-ZIMBABWE : New Wells Protect Environment, Build Peace By Vusumuzi Sifile SHAMVA, Zimbabwe - 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 Chidavaenzi is even more worried. MORE >>
RIGHTS-ITALY: Trafficking From Nigeria Rises Sharply By Sabina Zaccaro ROME - An alarming rise has been recorded in the number of Nigerian girls trafficked to Italy. MORE >>
MIDEAST: 'Lay Not Thine Hand Upon the Boy' By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler TEL AVIV - "And He said, Lay not thine hand upon the boy, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God" (Genesis 22:12). Not so much in fear of God as in fear of their own conscience, Israeli leaders have given temporary relief to hundreds of children of foreign workers who were facing deportation with their parents. MORE >>
RIGHTS: No Safe Haven for Ugandan Girls By Wambi Michael KAMPALA - A year ago, a mother in Kashari County took the law into her own hands and castrated a man she caught raping her seven-year-old daughter. MORE >>
Q&A: Teens Wrongly Excluded From Family Planning Ben Case interviews NAFISSATOU DIOP of the Population Council UNITED NATIONS - Nafissatou Diop has worked for decades on issues of reproductive health, HIV/AIDS and development in West Africa, including designing and implementing many studies and programmes. MORE >>
G8: Financial Crisis Or No, Rich Can Help Fight Hunger By Sholain Govender-Bateman PRETORIA - The World Food Programme (WFP) is urging G8 leaders to turn words into action and meet urgent hunger needs in Africa and other developing nations as they gather in Italy for the 2009 G8 Summit. MORE >>
HEALTH: Gender Finally Moving to Forefront of AIDS Fight By Danielle Kurtzleben WASHINGTON - With women now comprising 61 percent of all people infected with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa, international donors, governments and advocacy organisations are looking more closely at the connections between HIV/AIDS and gender inequality. MORE >>
MOROCCO: African Refugees Targeted By Daan Bauwens RABAT - More than 300 African refugees are gathered at the gates of the Moroccan United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), asking to be moved to another country because their rights are not respected in Morocco. Several refugees say they have been beaten up by Moroccan UN personnel. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT-AFRICA: Focus on Housing the Urban Poor By Joyce Mulama NAIROBI - Millions of people move to Africa’s cities every year, swelling the numbers of urban poor. "We cannot chase people away from slums," says Kelvin Mmangisa, chief executive of the Lilongwe City Assembly. "But we can improve the conditions there to make their lives better." MORE >>
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