Full Coverage: Southern Africa

28.06.2006 Despite better harvests across southern Africa, more than three million people will remain short of food because of chronic vulnerability caused by grinding poverty and the world’s highest rates of HIV/AIDS, the World Food Programme has warned.

28.06.2006 A new report from the Health Communication Partnership (HCP) demonstrates how a powerful television serial drama about young adults living in a rural South African town impacted by HIV/AIDS led to improved attitudes about HIV/AIDS, stigma, living openly and positively with HIV and faithfulness among its viewers.

27.06.2006 A leading medical journal says the Botswana government's eviction of Bushmen from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve has led to a dramatic deterioration in their health.

26.06.2006 The Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), Africa’s largest water diversion scheme, was funded on the condition that that poor people in the region would not be made poorer as a result. A decade later, more than 20,000 farmers have been displaced by the two dams completed so far.

23.06.2006 The last group of Bushmen holding out inside Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve have smuggled out an appeal for help, claiming continual harassment and threats by wildlife officials and scouts to "pressure us to leave our homes".

21.06.2006 from Ecofriend:
World Cup organisers are attempting to offset some of the carbon produced by millions of fans and players by paying to replace coal-fired boilers with woodchip-fuelled boilers at a South African farm.

19.06.2006 About 30 per cent of people surveyed in Brazil, Britain, Canada, Guatemala, India and South Africa have been the victim of gun crime or know someone who has been a victim in the last five years.

16.06.2006 Kansainvälinen Humana People to People -järjestöverkosto, jonka yksi perustajajäsen Suomen UFF-yhdistys on, vastaanotti 13. heinäkuuta 2006 öljynviejämaiden järjestön, OPEC:n, kansainvälisen kehitysrahaston myöntämän palkinnon kestävästä kehityksestä. OPEC Fund for International Development jakoi palkinnon ensimmäistä kertaa.

14.06.2006 Zambia's approaching general elections have increased pressure on the government to enact the Freedom of Information bill, more than three years after it was withheld for "wider consultation".

13.06.2006 South Africa's teacher shortage will reach crisis point by 2008 unless drastic steps are taken to increase the number entering the profession, according to a report in Business Day.

12.06.2006 Etelä-Afrikan talous kasvaa vakaata tahtia ja liiketoimintaympäristö on mallillaan. Takapihojen talouden kytkeminen vaatii kuitenkin ponnisteluja, sanoi liikefoorumissa Helsingissä torstaina puhunut suurlähettiläs Bukelwa Hans.

08.06.2006 South Africa and New Zealand must do more, more quickly, to tackle inequalities between their indigenous and non-indigenous populations, according to two recently released UN reports.

01.06.2006 The Kalahari Bushmen in Botswana have sent a desperate plea for help to actress Angelina Jolie, who gave birth to a daughter in neighbouring Namibia at the weekend.