Africa, World

ACCRA Friday, November 07, 2008 (IRIN) - A long queue of trucks loaded with timber, freshly sawed from Ghana's fast-depleting forests, lines up at...

ACCRA Wednesday, October 29, 2008 (IRIN) - The Ghanaian government, backed by the World Bank, is expanding a cash handout programme to help families...

HARARE Monday, November 17, 2008 (IRIN) - Memory Motsi* rents a room in Chitungwiza, about 20km from the Zimbabwean capital, Harare. She wakes up at...

BULAWAYO Friday, November 14, 2008 (IRIN) - Impatience among the hungry and food relief operations put on the back foot by a three-month ban are...

BULAWAYO Friday, November 14, 2008 (IRIN) - Zimbabwe's political crisis deepened on 14 November with the withdrawal of the opposition Movement for...

HARARE Thursday, November 13, 2008 (IRIN) - George Mumba, 24, an accountant in Harare, capital of Zimbabwe, is among the thousands of people whose...

HARARE Thursday, November 13, 2008 (IRIN) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's government is launching another wave of attacks against the Movement...

HARARE Wednesday, November 12, 2008 (IRIN) - Derrick Jimu, 56, has still not come to terms with the death of his son from cholera in the low-income...

JOHANNESBURG Wednesday, November 12, 2008 (IRIN) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is moving into top gear this month to feed four million...

HARARE Wednesday, November 12, 2008 (IRIN) - After a week of drama and suspense, HIV/AIDS activists in Zimbabwe welcomed with relief the decision by...