By Misheck Rusere – A research carried by two Non Governmental Organisations namely the Research and Advocacy Unit and Zimbabwe Doctors for Human Rights has revealed that the country’s 2008 elections resulted in the highest number of rapes compared to other elections since 2000. The study comes amid calls by President Mugabe and his ZANU (PF) party to go for polls in 2011 to end the life of the Inclusive Government formed more than one and half years ago after ZANU (PF) won the lone race at the withdrawal of MDC-T citing politically motivated violence. The chilling report on politically-motivated... Continue Reading
BRAZZAVILLE, 10 December 2010 (IRIN) – The number of people killed by an outbreak of wild polio virus in the Republic of Congo has reached 200, officials said, as the second of three rounds of mass vaccination began. “The first phase was a great success with a coverage rate of 105 percent. This rate reflects the fact that we identified 4,135,000 people and ultimately 4,300,000 people were immunized,” said the Minister of Health and Population, Georges Moyen. “Since 2 December, the country has more reported cases of deaths from acute flaccid paralysis,” said Moyen, stating that the current balance is... Continue Reading
Several low-income countries highly affected by HIV risk being entirely or partly disqualified from the current funding round by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, warns the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins sans Frontières (MSF). Unless a new round of funding is urgently introduced to allow rejected applications to be resubmitted, HIV-positive people will suffer severe consequences such as debilitating opportunistic infections and ultimately early death. The Global Fund Board will convene on 13 December to take their decision on whether or not to fund each proposal, and to decide on the timing of the next funding... Continue Reading
By Novell Zwange – Doha, QATAR – The luxurious airliner, Qatar Airways today announced an expansion of its East African network with 12 additional flights across two capital cities – Nairobi and Dar Es Salaam. The daily Doha – Nairobi flights have increased to 12-flights-a-week. From January 3, an additional two flights will take capacity up to double daily. The expansion comes after five successful years of operations to Kenya’s capital city. The Tanzanian capital, Dar Es Salaam, currently served daily, will receive an additional four flights a week from January 2. An additional flight from February 14 will take... Continue Reading
….Establishment of Regional Network Imminent By: Augustine N. Myers, back from Bamako – Media Practitioners from the West African Sub-region comprising Anglophone and Francophone Countries, have completed an advanced training aimed at improving coverage and reportage on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, which is commonly known as the WASH Sector. The workshop brought together over twenty participants from Liberia, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, Benin, Senegal, Togo and Niger, and was held in the Malian Capital, Bamako from November 29 to December 2, 2010. The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Training Workshop focused on the role of the media in... Continue Reading
