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Education: Elusive dream for Cameroon’s indigenous peoples
YAOUNDÉ — It is a sunny afternoon in Boui, a small village in the Boumba and Ngoko Division of Cameroon’s South East Region. A primary school teacher is drawing some wild animals on the blackboard....
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Iran children at the gallows
ROME — As Iran currently executes the highest number of juvenile offenders in the world, hundreds of Iranian minors helplessly watch their childhoods pass them by, as they await their fatal ends...
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Myths, secrets and inequality surround Ugandan women’s sex lives
Jinja, Uganda — Mambera Hellem tells her friends and neighbours about all forms of contraception, yet despite their high HIV risk, she knows many of the women she speaks to will not use condoms. IPS...
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Mines Amendment Bill crucial in modernising mineral legislation
THE Mines and Minerals Amendment Bill (2016), which will soon be crafted by Parliament, will be a crucial step towards modernising mineral legislation in the country given that the principal Act,...
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The beating pulse of food security in Africa
MASVINGO — Elizabeth Mpofu is a fighter. She is one of a select group of farmers, who equate food security with the war against hunger and shun poor agricultural practices, which destroy the...
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Upsetting communities in favour of business ventures
WITH about 30 million hectares of land having been transferred to investors in recent years, most of it in Africa and given the scale of the phenomenon, experts are now calling for safeguards to...
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Wounds remain raw in Central African Republic
BANGUI — The Central African Republic’s (CAR) new government is struggling to bring an end to three years of war and sectarian violence, its authority undermined by continuing attacks on civilians by...
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Calls to use birth registration as weapon against child marriage
SPOTTING a visibly oversized dress that hides a protruding tummy, Lorna (not her real name) joins the long queue of women visiting a local health centre in rural Wedza for maternity check-ups. BY...
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New Zimbabwe notes stir memory of 500-trillion percentage inflation
Zimbabwe’s tentative return to its own currency is getting a hostile reception from citizens, who fear a recurrence of the 500-billion percent inflation that plagued the southern African nation before...
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‘Child brides’ at high risk of HIV infection
A recent report by the United Nations Women has revealed that poverty was driving underage girls into early marriages, exposing them to HIV and Aids. BY VENERANDA LANGA The report says girls from the...
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Laws exist, why do child marriages persist?
At the age of 14, Chipo Chingoshi got married to her husband Stanley, a 32-year-old employed as a herdsman. The couple has a two-year-old daughter and lives in a small hut in the Seke rural area. BY...
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Social media becomes Mugabe’s nightmare
ROME — In a WhatsApp video that went viral in September, a middle-aged Zimbabwean man addresses President Robert Mugabe, telling him that 90% of the people in the country are unemployed and do not...
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The tale of Mudzi’s ‘cyanide barons’
A STENCH of chemicals engulfs the whole of Makaha business centre deep in rural Mudzi, Mashonaland East province. With the area located between mountains, one cannot escape the chocking odour, as the...
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Drought cripples micro hydro energy project
Clutching a plastic bag loaded with her books, 10-year-old Polite Mutsvetwa smiles at the camera, oblivious of the blistering heat. BY SOFIA MAPURANGA A media tour of the Chipendekete mini hydro...
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Criminals hiding behind marriages of convenience
WITH her two-year-old baby tightly strapped to her back, 18-year-old Rosemary Kunaka (not real name) left the Marondera Magistrates’ Court a dejected woman. The magistrate’s decision on her...
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Will free expression equal terrorism in Zimbabwe?
FOUR years ago, a faceless writer using the nom de guerre Baba Jukwa set Facebook agog with detailed exposes of machinations within the ruling Zanu PF. IPS Information, Media and Broadcasting Services...
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Zim women to use Clinton loss as electoral lesson
THE loss of United States Presidential aspirant Hillary Clinton to billionaire business mogul Donald Trump has shocked many women in Zimbabwe, who had been hoping she would become the first female...
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Land invasions hinder modernisation of Zim farms
Sitting astride his motorbike, farmer Craig Jonathan (Not real name), scans his lucrative banana field in Matabeleland South province, one of the country’s top growers of the long yellow tropical...
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Land barons thrive in Caledonia despite Udcorp interventions
POLITICIANS and land barons have been thriving by allocating land illegally to desperate home-seekers in Caledonia and 100 000 residents now face the reality of living dangerously at the settlement....
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The Zim clinic where both political activists, Zanu PF officials are treated
It’s the plush Harare clinic where Zimbabwe’s mamas-with-medical-insurance go to have their babies. M&G Africa US ambassador to Zim, Harry K Thomas with Patson Dzamara It’s also where beaten-up...
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