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Economic crisis: Sour Christmas for Congolese after mines close

Written by Miriam Mannak LUBUMBASHI / DRC - It is busy at the gates of the Bralima brewery in Lubumbashi, the second largest city of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). One day before Christmas, about fifty to sixty men are leaning in silence aainst...

created by Miriam Mannak | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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A Message about Jestina Mukoko, Director of Zimbabwe Peace Project, who was abducted in Zimbabwe

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Will Jestina be home for Christmas?

By Miriam Mannak It has been over three weeks since Jestina Mukoko, one of Zimbabwe’s most prominent human rights activists, disappeared without a trace. Mukoko, the executive director of the Zimbabwe Peace...

created by Miriam Mannak | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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Shakabrah

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Assisting a tyrant: China's helping hand to Robert Mugabe

By Miriam Mannak According to a recently published report by the United Nations (UN), the Zimbabwean government has receieved weapons from China in 2007. The arms were distributed to Harare via the Democratic...

created by Miriam Mannak | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
291 views | 15 recommendations | 4 comments

Cape Town Baby Diagnosed With Cholera

The authorities in Cape Town are on high alert after a 4-month old baby was admitted to hospital with cholera. According to the provincial health department of the Western Cape, the case is probably not related to the cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe - which acording to the...

created by Miriam Mannak | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
813 views | 32 recommendations | 7 comments

Soldiers, UN peacekeepers retreat as rebel forces advance in Congo

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Ngos: Rape in DRC Has Reached Epidemic Proportions

By Miriam Mannak The wave of rape and sexual violence that is sweeping through the north eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has reached epidemic proportions, various aid organisations say....

created by Miriam Mannak | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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Violence, Possibly Xenophobic, Strikes Township Near Cape Town

About six months after a wave of xenophobic violence struck South Africa - killing over 60 people and displacing approximately 200.000 people country wide - it seems that anti foreigner violence might have struck a township out of Cape Town once again. On December 16,...

created by Miriam Mannak | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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South Africa Is Winning Fight Against Cholera

South Africa is making good progress when it comes to fighting the spill over of Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic. According to the health department, water resources in Musina - a border town with Zimbabwe - have...

created by Miriam Mannak | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
160 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments

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Scottish Expat Freed From Nigerian Kidnappers After Two Weeks

Two long weeks after he was abducted from the Niger Delta, Ben Strachan - a Scottish oil worker - was freed and reunited with his Nigerian wife and their son. Strachan - who is employed by one of the many oil...

created by Miriam Mannak | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
208 views | 8 recommendations | 3 comments

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One of Cape Town's Main Landmarks Up for Grabs

Cape Town is in shock. One of the city's most famous landmarks - apart from Table Mountain - is for sale. According to an add in a local property magazine, Mount Sentinel, which is privately owned, is up for grabs...

created by Miriam Mannak | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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In Zimbabwe, MSF Responding to Cholera Outbreak

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Botswana Rings Alarm Bells After New Cholera Infections

The city of Francistown in Botswana is on high alert after two more people were diagnosed with cholera. This brings the number of infections to four. All cases are a spillover from the cholera epidemic in...

created by Miriam Mannak | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
841 views | 15 recommendations | 4 comments

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Saving Girls From a Deadly Tradition: Uganda's Mission

By Miriam Mannak A huge breakthrough for girls and women in Uganda seems to be on the horizon with the drafting of a national bill that will send practitioners of female genital mutilation to jail for up to seven...

created by Miriam Mannak | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
1031 views | 75 recommendations | 12 comments

Oxfam International Webteam

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Situation in Zimbabwe: The World Should Have Known ...

By Miriam MannakWhat has happened and is happening in Zimbabwe today should not have come as a major surprise. Twenty-five years ago, president Robert Mugabe showed his true colours by giving the go-ahead for one...

created by Miriam Mannak | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
896 views | 34 recommendations | 9 comments

pankaj kumar

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"Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe a Modern Day Hitler"

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe should be regarded as a modern day Hitler and a murderer without any conscience or remorse, said the Anglican Bishop of Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital, Joe...

created by Miriam Mannak | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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S-Africa Province Denies Aids Patients Meds Due to Money Issues

Due to financial constraints within the provincial health department of the Free State - one of South Africa's nine provinces - new Aids patients will be refused anti-retroviral treatment.Four the next four...

created by Miriam Mannak | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
316 views | 49 recommendations | 9 comments

sheshank

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Zimbabwe government: "Cholera brought under control"

According to the Zimbabwean authorities, the cholera epidemic has been brought under control. "We have the means to combat the disease," said information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu. These statements are in sharp...

created by Miriam Mannak | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
213 views | 17 recommendations | 3 comments

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