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Q&A Women Farmers Are Key to a Food-Secure Africa Busani Bafana interviews JANE KARUKU, the first woman president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa BULAWAYO - While women constitute the majority of food producers, processors and marketers in Africa, their role in the agricultural sector still remains a minor one because of cultural and social barriers. MORE >>
Major Effort to Reduce Child Mortality Not Enough By Jonathan Migneault and Jamila Akweley Okertchiri ACCRA - Ghana has taken a major step towards reducing its under-five mortality rate by becoming the first African country to introduce two new vaccines for rotavirus and pneumococcal disease. MORE >>
Africa’s Two Female Presidents Join Forces for Women By Travis Lupick* MONROVIA - The only two female heads of state in Africa, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Malawian President Joyce Banda, have just committed to using their positions to improve the lives of women across the continent. MORE >>
Action Plan to End Banishing of "Witches" in Burkina Faso By Brahima Ouédraogo OUAGADOUGOU - It's called "the bearing of the body" in Burkina Faso: when a death is deemed suspicious and a group of men carry the corpse through the community, believing the deceased will guide them towards the person responsible for the death. The accused - almost always women – are then chased out of their homes. MORE >>
GUINEA-BISSAU-MALI ECOWAS Talking Softer, But Still Holding Big Stick By Souleymane Gano DAKAR - Regional leaders meeting in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, on May 3 appeared to slightly retreat from their positions against coup leaders in Guinea-Bissau and Mali, but the Economic Community of West African States continues to press for a speedy return to constitutional rule in both countries. MORE >>
Child Soldiers Used in Mali Conflict By William Lloyd-George NIAMEY - It was tough for Hassan Toure to decide to stay in his small town on the outskirts of Kidal, in northern Mali. The government troops had withdrawn on Mar. 30, and several armed groups, including militias and bandits, were operating in the region. MORE >>
Cashew Producers' Pain Is Intermediaries’ Gain in Senegal By Koffigan E. Adigbli ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal - Cashew nut growers in the southern Senegalese region of Casamance are complaining bitterly that intermediaries are cutting them out of a fair share of the profits. MORE >>
Mali Heading Closer to Civil War By William Lloyd-George NIAMEY - Since January, various groups of Tuareg rebels in Mali have come together in an attempt to administer a new northern state called Azawad. MORE >>
Ultimatum and Military Option From ECOWAS to Avoid Stalemate By Fulgence Zamblé ABIDJAN - Rebel leaders in Guinea-Bissau have released the country's prime minister and interim president, who were arrested in the country's Apr. 12 coup, and have flown them to Côte d'Ivoire. MORE >>
Taking Solace from a Verdict that Can’t Bring Back Loved Ones By Mustapha Dumbuya* FREETOWN - Saffa Momoh Lahai was just two years old when his father was killed during Sierra Leone’s civil war. Rebels attacked their family home in Kailahun District, in the eastern reaches of the country, and shot Lahai’s father when he tried to resist. MORE >>
Sierra Leone Still Suffers Legacy of Child Soldiers By Mustapha Dumbuya FREETOWN - When the verdict against Liberia’s former President Charles Taylor for war crimes in Sierra Leone is handed down on Thursday, it will be of no help to the many former combatants of the country’s brutal civil war who have not been reintegrated into society. Instead, they will continue to pose a threat to Sierra Leone’s future stability. MORE >>
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