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POLITICS-NIGER: First Steps Towards the Restoration of Democracy? By Ousseini Issa* NIAMEY - As its promised transition to democratic rule begins, the military junta that overthrew Nigerien president Mamadou Tandja on February 18 has named a former information minister, Mahamadou Danda, as the new prime minister while retaining legislative and executive powers for itself. MORE >>
EAST AFRICA: Improving Local Access to Family Planning By Isaiah Esipisu KAMPALA - A severe shortage of highly-trained medical personnel is one of the many challenges to providing health care at a local level across Africa. Task shifting - permitting less-specialised people to carry out certain functions - is one proposal to over come this, but it is meeting resistance. MORE >>
COTE D'IVOIRE: Crisis Within a Crisis Delays Elections Again By Fulgence Zamblé* ABIDJAN - A week after President Laurent Gbagbo dissolved the government and the electoral commission, thousands marched in the city of Bouaké, damaging cars and shops. There have been almost daily demonstrations in cities across the country as Côte d'Ivoire's political crisis deepens. MORE >>
EUROPE: Fight Female Mutilation Harder Activists Urge EU By Pavol Stracansky VIENNA - With hundreds of thousands of girls and women believed to be at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Europe, rights groups have mounted a campaign to get EU leaders to stop what they see as a barbaric and dangerous procedure. MORE >>
RIGHTS: Expulsions From EU Rise Sharply By David Cronin BRUSSELS - The number of asylum-seekers and other migrants expelled from the European Union in joint operations between its governments has grown three times in as many years, IPS has learned. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT: Climate Change Likely to Increase African Hunger Woes By Julio Godoy BERLIN - Africa, the continent already most affected by hunger and food scarcity, is likely to see its woes increased due to climate change and the changing rain patterns it provokes, experts and scientists say. MORE >>
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 >>
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