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Water & Sanitation
RWANDA: Water rationing warning as drought bites

  PLoS Medicine Editorial Argues For Water Access To Be Considered Human Right

  Researchers Say Increased Biofuel Production Could Harm Water Resources

 

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NAMIBIA: Court case highlights workers rights
JOHANNESBURG, 3 July 2009 (PLUSNEWS) - In a landmark case in Namibia, 22 hotel workers are taking their employer and a doctor to court for allegedly testing them for HIV without their informed consent. In February 2000, the owner of Oshakati Coun....

RWANDA: Water rationing warning as drought bites
KIGALI, 3 July 2009 (IRIN) - Electrogaz, Rwanda's public utility, is considering water rationing due to shortages caused by a prolonged drought in parts of the country, officials said. Yves Muyange, the acting chief executive, said the country wa....

WEST AFRICA: Another stab at the "resource curse"
DAKAR, 2 July 2009 (IRIN) - In Africa billions of dollars from oil, gas and mining revenues go missing, leaving populations dependent on international assistance, according to a new report on natural resource use on the continent. The report, whi....

RWANDA: Sugar daddies and mummies have bitter consequences
KIGALI, 2 July 2009 (PLUSNEWS) - A new HIV prevention campaign in Rwanda - "Sinigurisha" (I am not for sale) - warns against cross-generational sex involving both older men and older women. "Sexual relationships between girls and older men [sugar....

AFRICA: Civil Society to AU: Investment Must Address Marginalisation
Diletta Varlese, Terna Gyuse and Joyce Mulama, Sirte, LIBYA, CAPE TOWN and NAIROBI, Jul 3 (IPS) - No gathering hosted by Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi is ever dull, and the Thirteenth Ordinary Session of the African Union, concluding in Sirte, Libya ....

KENYA: A Role For Men in Gender Equality
Joyce Mulama, NAIROBI, Jul 3 (IPS) - The recent Gender Festival in Kenya has underlined the important role that male activism can play in achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment. "Men have a role to play when it comes to ensuring gender ....

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phantom aid
In 2003, real aid was only $27bn, or
just 0.1% of the donor countries’
combined national income. Aid donors fall far short of meeting the official international aid target of 0.7% of national income. ActionAid’s new ‘real 0.7% rankings’, presented in this report, show that when it comes to
‘real’ aid they are falling even further behind....more than 60% of aid flows are ‘phantom’; that is they do not represent a real resource transfer to the recipient.....
For the United States and France, two of the world’s largest aid donors, almost 90% of their contributions are phantom aid

In Brief

On the Brink: Guinea Worm - A Long Crusade - Dose of Tenacity Wears Down a Horrific Disease


Perspective: Why Africa cannot trade itself out of poverty


WHO makes progress in leprosy control, but challenges remain


WHO/AFRO plans to designate 2006 as “Year of Accelerated Prevention of HIV in Africa”.


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