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Italiano JOHANNESBURG – A statement by Zimbabwe’s mining minister, Obert Mpofu, that the Cabinet had approved the sale of diamonds from the controversial Marange fields has been dismissed by another minister as “lies”.
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 IRIN  30/06/2010JOHANNESBURG – Reform of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) is becoming more urgent as controversy over Zimbabwe’s diamond sales pushes the international initiative designed to stem the flow of conflict diamonds towards paralysis. IRIN 28/06/2010JOHANNESBURG – “Out of sight, out of mind” explains why Southern Africa has been grappling with one of the biggest outbreaks of measles, a highly contagious viral disease, since 2009. IRIN 28/06/2010JOHANNESBURG – A new global architecture to govern food security is urgently needed to reduce the number of hungry people, and predict and prevent another food price crisis like the one that took the world by surprise in 2006-08. IRIN 25/06/2010JOHANNESBURG – Life is mostly hard in the mountainous kingdom of Lesotho, but the chronic droughts that seem to signal the unfolding impact of climate change are projected to become more severe, and could squeeze cultivable land from an already slim 10 percent to a mere three percent in 25 years. IRIN 22/06/2010JOHANNESBURG – Ghana, often hailed as a success story in West African agriculture, tops a global list of 10 countries that have managed to slash their number of hungry people by a huge margin. IRIN 21/06/2010JOHANNESBURG – “Africa is now facing the same type of long-term food deficit problem that India faced in the early 1960s”, says a paper by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a US-based think-tank. IRIN 18/06/2010AIDS activists are to march on the US Consulate in Johannesburg on 17 June to protest against the deaths they say will result from President Barack Obama’s “anti-treatment policies”. IRIN 11/06/2010The conference will focus on meeting new challenges to quality, access and care for HIV & AIDS, TB and malaria in Africa through the following three themes: new ARV guidelines and other challenges to treatment of HIV patients; meeting the challenges of TB and malaria; and implications of the new guidelines for management of the supply chain. Continue reading 3rd Access to Health Care in Africa Conference 2010 – South Africa IRIN 03/05/2010NAIROBI/JOHANNESBURG – South African President Jacob Zuma recently launched one of the most ambitious voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) campaigns in history by disclosing his HIV-negative status. Ministers and provincial premiers have been following his example, but politicians in Africa have not always been so forthcoming. IRIN/PlusNews charts the history of who has and has not stepped up for “the prick”. |
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