Hungry and HIV positive in Nairobi’s slums
10 March 2010
PlusNews – Violet Tinah, 40, a resident of Korogocho slum in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, is living with HIV and was recently diagnosed with tuberculosis, but her biggest problem today is not disease – but hunger. “When I went for the results that informed me that I had TB, I was very [...]
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TOGO: Disputed vote spawns fears
08 March 2010
IRIN – An empty market, tightened security and a general wariness of possible violence have greeted the announcement of President Fauré Gnassingbé’s re-election, pending constitutional court approval, with 61 percent of the two million votes cast on 4 March. Business at the largest market in the capital, Lomé, has slowed after anxious merchants shuttered their stands. “I [...]
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Tsvangirai says ready for election showdown
08 March 2010
NEWZIMBABWE – PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has said he will run in next year’s general elections but called for the deployment of peacekeepers to prevent a repeat of the violence which characterised the disputed 2008 polls. Addressing party supporters in Chitungwiza on Sunday Tsvangirai said international peacekeepers were needed to guarantee a free and fair [...]
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Analysis: Tensions high in run-up to Burundi elections
05 March 2010
IRIN – As Burundi approaches elections designed to cap the country’s democratic transition after years of civil conflict, there is growing concern about worsening security and limits to political freedom. “The situation is explosive,” Pierre Claver Mbonimpa, chairman of the Association for the Promotion of Human and Prisoner Rights (APRODH), told IRIN. “Demobilised people [former [...]
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Zimbabwe elections next year, Mugabe to contest
05 March 2010
ZimEye – President Robert Mugabe has revealed that Zimbabweans might go for elections next year when the two-year period for the shaky government ends. Mugabe said he would contest in the elections. He said the fresh elections would be held even if a new constitution is not in place. Mugabe said he would contest in the elections [...]
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Robert Mugabe backs David Cameron’s Conservatives
05 March 2010
It has been a difficult few weeks for the Tories – the Ashcroft affair, talk of splits, erratic poll numbers and doubts over their economic policy. But at last they can enjoy some good news: no lesser global statesman than Robert Mugabe has offered David Cameron his endorsement. “We have always related better with the British [...]
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TOGO: Tip-toeing towards reconciliation
05 March 2010
(IRIN) – As up to 3.2 million Togolese cast their ballots in the presidential election on 4 March, IRIN asked voters and experts what it would take to reach true reconciliation after decades of political violence. This is the first of a two-part series on Togo’s road to reconciliation. “Impunity will no longer be tolerated, [...]
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Tsvangirai says ‘all sanctions’ must be lifted
03 March 2010
NEWZIMBABWE – PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has urged western countries to remove “all sanctions” on Zimbabwe, in the same week that the United States extended sanctions by another year. Tsvangirai is growingly frustrated by western countries’ publicly-expressed doubts over the power sharing government he formed with President Robert Mugabe in February last year. After meeting Soren [...]
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