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KENYA: Proposed Constitutional Amendment Sets Back Women’s Rights By Susan Anyangu-Amu NAIROBI - Lillian Mutuku, a 34-year-old mother of three, describes her home in Katine area, in Kenya’s Eastern province Tala, as a harsh place to live. The soil is poor, she says, the sun beats down mercilessly and vegetation is sparse. MORE >>
KENYA: New Bill to Improve State Witness Protection, If Passed By Mary Kiio NAIROBI - Kenyans affected by the violence that erupted after the country’s disputed presidential elections in 2007 may soon be able to speak out without fear. A new bill will offer better protection to state witnesses. MORE >>
EDUCATION-TANZANIA: Pregnant Teens Forced Out of School By Arnaud Bébien DAR-ES-SALAAM - Pregnancy is the leading cause of dropouts for school girls in Tanzania. And a national law forbidding young mothers to return to school after giving birth did not make it any easier for them to continue their education. MORE >>
TANZANIA: Weather Changes Turn Farming into Gamble with Nature By Denis Gathanju DAR-ES-SALAAM - Changes in weather patterns have turned agriculture into a gamble with nature for Tanzanian farmers. Prolonged droughts and floods have made the lives of small-scale farmers, who don’t have access to irrigation, extremely difficult. MORE >>
ENVIRONMENT-UGANDA: Landslides - Experts Warn Worst is Yet to Come By Joshua Kyalimpa KAMPALA - Fourteen-year-old Isaac Wadyegere of Bundesi village in Bududa district woke up to a rainy and chilly Monday morning and went to school as usual. But Mar. 1 was not a usual day in eastern Uganda. MORE >>
MALAWI: Patrilineal Inheritance Prevents Women’s Access to Land By Claire Ngozo LILONGWE - Mercy Gondwe, 51, from Rumphi in northern Malawi, was married for 34 years. When her husband died in 2008, she assumed she would inherit the land they had been cultivating together since they got married. But this was not the case. MORE >>
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY: ‘We Will Demonstrate, As They Celebrate’ By Evelyn Matsamura Kiapi KAMPALA - ‘Equal rights; equal opportunities’ may be the theme for this year’s International Women’s Day, but while women around the world celebrate, a group of Ugandan women are protesting against the suppression of their rights. MORE >>
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Five Years to Children Born Free of HIV By Marshall Patsanza JOHANNESBURG - A world where all children are born free of HIV infection is possible in only five years if donors continue to fund global efforts to combat the virus. MORE >>
MALAWI: Climate Change Is Changing Farming Methods By Claire Ngozo LILONGWE - As they slept soundly on the night of Feb. 28, a family of four was killed when their house collapsed over their heads in Malawi’s southern district of Chikhwawa. MORE >>
UGANDA: Pressure Mounts to Make Public Oil Agreements By Joshua Kyalimpa KAMPALA - Uganda’s members of parliament (MPs) are pressurising government to make public details of oil production-sharing agreements it signed with various international oil companies. MORE >>
EAST AFRICA: Improving Local Access to Family Planning By Isaiah Esipisu KAMPALA - A severe shortage of highly-trained medical personnel is one of the many challenges to providing health care at a local level across Africa. Task shifting - permitting less-specialised people to carry out certain functions - is one proposal to over come this, but it is meeting resistance. MORE >>
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