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HEALTH-AFRICA: Fresh Campaign Against Paediatric AIDS By Nalisha Kalideen JOHANNESBURG - Eleven years ago, Raloke Odetoyinbo had been married for two years and a month when she found out she was HIV positive. MORE >>
AGRICULTURE-COTE D'IVOIRE: Small-scale Pineapple Growers Want More Support By Fulgence Zamblé BONOUA, Côte d'Ivoire - Karim Diabaté, looks questioningly at his vast 20 hectare pineapple plantation in Bonoua in south-eastern Côte d'Ivoire. "I'm asking myself if if I'll get the money I need for in time for the inputs I need and keep my plants going." MORE >>
SIERRA LEONE: Journalists at War with Highest Court By Mohamed Fofanah FREETOWN - Umaru Fofana looks dishevelled. His hair is overgrown and people who do not know him could be mistaken for thinking he just joined an Afro band. And his hanging beard will surely solicit suspicious glances. MORE >>
AGRICULTURE-NIGERIA: Bagging Beans Against Beetles By Salma Ahmad Kano KANO - Cowpeas are of vital importance to the diets and livelihood of millions of people in West and Central Africa. But the crop is notoriously difficult to store - beetles and other pests can destroy an entire granary full of cowpeas within 12 months. MORE >>
POLITICS-GUINEA: Uncertainty Prevails Under Increasingly Isolated Junta By Saliou Samb CONAKRY - Under growing pressure ten days after a violent crackdown, killed 157 civilians, Guinean junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara has announced an independent committee of inquiry into the deaths. MORE >>
NIGERIA: Fish Could Play Greater Role In Food Security By Toluwa Olusegun AKARAKUMO, Nigeria - The smell of roasting fish fills the air as one approaches the bungalow a few metres from the shore of the lagoon. Like most families in the village schoolteacher John Sewanu and his family of seven depend on the sea for food and income. MORE >>
HEALTH-AFRICA: If Men Were Dying En Masse... By Miriam Mannak CAPE TOWN - Maternal mortality rates in Africa constitute a "monumental tragedy" that requires urgent attention by African governments, health experts say. MORE >>
CAMEROON: 'Our Lives Are Defined By This Forest' By Ngala Kilian Chimtom YAOUNDE - Pauline Siembe, a Baka pygmy in South East Cameroon, comes out of her smoky hut licking her fingers after a meal of pounded yam and bush meat soup. MORE >>
CAMEROON: Gearing Up for Copenhagen By Ngala Killian Chimtom YAOUNDE - "Developed countries have failed to respect the Kyoto Protocol which compelled them to reduce latest 2008 emissions of greenhouse gases by five percent. There is therefore need for new engagements to be taken at the Copenhagen Summit." Decisive words from Cameroon's minister for the environment, Pierre Hele. MORE >>
SENEGAL: Scrambling to Keep Up With Education For All By Souleymane Faye DIOHINE, Senegal - In Diohine, a village of some 3,000 inhabitants in the Fatick region of central Senegal, real progress has been made towards educating all children, in spite of a lack of infrastructure. MORE >>
HEALTH-LIBERIA: Rainy Season Deadly for Pregnant Women By Bonnie Allen BAILA, Liberia - As heavy rain hammers the grass thatch roof of her mud hut, Goromah Borbor huddles inside and quietly describes how her daughter Annie died while giving birth. MORE >>
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