Africa, World

HARARE Thursday, November 06, 2008 (IRIN) - Businessman Elias Mugari squeezed into a crowded hotel lobby in Harare, Zimbabwe, on 5 November to watch...

JOHANNESBURG Thursday, November 06, 2008 (IRIN) - The future of Zimbabwe's AIDS programmes hangs in the balance after the government failed to meet...

HARARE Thursday, November 20, 2008 (IRIN) - All Zimbabwean journalists are required to register with the state-appointed media board that vets...

JOHANNESBURG Wednesday, November 19, 2008 (IRIN) - Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic has crossed into South Africa, with four confirmed diagnoses in a...

BULAWAYO Monday, November 17, 2008 (IRIN) - Business is booming for Sibangilizwe Ndlovu, 56, who runs a small funeral parlour in the working-class...

BANJUL Monday, November 03, 2008 (IRIN) - President Yahya Jammeh’s traditional herbal treatment for HIV has had an unanticipated side-effect, say HIV...

BAKAU Thursday, October 30, 2008 (IRIN) - Child protection experts say sexual exploitation of children by tourists is on the increase in The Gambia,...

BANJUL Thursday, November 06, 2008 (IRIN) - Heavy dependence on imported rice is crippling Gambian consumers, leading the government to call for New...

BANJUL Thursday, November 06, 2008 (IRIN) - Juju Gassama, 43, is a rice-farmer in western Gambia’s Jambur village, a small farming community 30km...

BANJUL Tuesday, November 04, 2008 (IRIN) - Enrolment rates at all levels of education have improved in The Gambia since 2000, but with too few...