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94 Corpses and Counting: Inside South Africa’s Mental Deaths Horror
by Contributors - Feb 15, 2017By Ray Mwareya JOHANNESBURG, South Africa ‒ No single gunshot fired. 94 corpses. Still counting. The “worst hospital massacre” in South Africa. This is the horrific tale of 94 mental health patients whose corpses, hidden... -
Protecting Zimbabwe’s Prime Forests through REDD+ Initiatives
by Contributors - Feb 15, 2017By Andrew Mambondiyani HURUNGWE, Zimbabwe ‒Most rural communities in Zimbabwe still depend entirely on wood as a source of energy, resulting in massive destruction of the country’s prime forests. Tobacco farmers use wood to cure... -
Museveni’s Government under Scrutiny as Famine Ravages Uganda
by Contributors - Feb 11, 2017By Namwiza Ritah Ugandan media outlets were late last year awash with stories and images of Mr Yoweri Museveni‒Uganda’s president for the last 30 years on a bicycle carrying a can of water. The official statement... -
Women cultivate their way out of Zimbabwe’s grinding rural poverty
by Contributors - Jan 31, 2017By Andrew Mambondiyani Bernadette Sithole beamed with joy as she picked some vegetables from the local community garden, which had various crops ranging from okra to maize and butternut – a new crop growing in... -
Clean-fuel Cookstoves May Improve Cardiovascular Health in Pregnant Women
by Contributors - Jan 18, 2017Replacing biomass and kerosene cookstoves used throughout the developing world with clean-burning ethanol stoves may reduce hypertension and cardiovascular risk in pregnant women, according to new research published online, ahead of print in the American Thoracic... -
Zimbabwe Advances in Developing Climate-Smart Agriculture Manual for Education
by Contributors - Dec 19, 2016Review of Chapters in the Draft Climate-Smart Agriculture Manual Underway Harare, Zimbabwe – Climate-smart agriculture (CSA), a new approach to development, can assist Zimbabwe in addressing the challenges of climate change and variability. This is... -
Rural Kenya: Meet Naanyu Everlyne, the girl who dreams of building a hospital
by Contributors - Dec 16, 2016By Meshack Ian Acholla “Halo Sir! Are you ready we start?” This is what struck me, the level of confidence from the young Maasai girl. I said I was ready and we walked down to... -
Research: Schooling in rural South Africa
by Contributors - Dec 8, 2016Small, isolated schools reveals prospective blueprint to academic success By Clive W. Kronenberg Ph.D It would be fair to say that many if not most scholars engaged in researching South Africa’s public education system... -
Where are the 3.5 million Nigerians infected with HIV/AIDS?
by Contributors - Dec 1, 2016By Dimos Sakellaridis The intention of the title is not to scare or stigmatize any reader but to generate an intelligent discussion about the of HIV and AIDS in Nigeria. In a country of 189... -
Lagos: Over 10,000 To Be Rendered Homeless As Police Demolish Otodo Gbame Community
by Contributors - Nov 11, 2016COMMUNITY WATCH – One month after the Governor of Lagos State went to the media announcing the Lagos State Government’s intention to demolish “shanties” along waterfronts across the state – and just days after the Lagos...