SOUTHERN AFRICA: Rainy Season Brings Mixed Blessings

Moyiga Nduru

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 27 2007 (IPS) – This year s rainy season has brought some mixed blessings to farmers and aid agencies operating in Southern Africa, which experienced a spell of drought and famine last year.
In most of the 14-member Southern African Development Community (SADC), the rainfall on which most farmers rely unable to afford irrigation starts in November and ends in March.

We had a poor start to the season. But since late December we have experienced some good rainfall. This doesn t mean that all is well. The southern and eastern parts of the country are not having good rainfall, Ajah Vashee, president of the Trustee of Zambia National Farmers Union, told IPS from the central town of Ndola by phone.

Some farmers, because rains started…

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HEALTH-PAKISTAN: Porous Afghan Border Thwarts Anti-Polio Drive

Zofeen Ebrahim

KARACHI, Feb 21 2007 (IPS) – Pakistan has intensified efforts to eradicate the polio virus with a new vaccination drive that targets 12 high-risk districts in southern Sindh province where three new cases were reported recently, bringing the total number of polio incidents countrywide to four since the start of the year.
The door-to-door anti-polio campaign from Feb. 20 to 22 is part of the Health Ministry s Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI). Pakistan s Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) was launched in 1994 in collaboration with the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPI) which was begun six years before.

But despite a gargantuan effort by an army of some 60,000 frontline health workers in Pakistan, who go from house to house to administer two…

DEVELOPMENT-MOZAMBIQUE: Explosions End But Trauma Continues

Ruth Ansah Ayisi

MAPUTO, Mar 30 2007 (IPS) – Six hours of terrifying explosions and projectiles flying everywhere, killing people indiscriminately, are over but the fear and the trauma live on.
 Credit: Ruth Ansah Ayisi

Credit: Ruth Ansah Ayisi

A week ago, a depot storing armaments exploded in the middle of 14 densely populated poor neighbourhoods in the Mozambican capital of Maputo. Explosions went on for several hours with bullets and rockets blasting off in all directions.

Currently over 100 people are confirmed dead and about 500 injured, many of them serious and requiring amputations. Nobody escaped the impact. Maputo residents at least …

PERU: Blood and Gold on Algamarca Hill

Milagros Salazar

ALGAMARCA, Peru, May 7 2007 (IPS) – While two companies are disputing a hill rich in gold in the extreme northwest of Peru, more than 3,000 informal sector miners are working there without the most basic safety or environmental protection measures.
Miners on Algamarca hill Credit: Office of the President of Peru.

Miners on Algamarca hill Credit: Office of the President of Peru.

The hillside is dotted with the blue, yellow and red plastic roofs of the miners tents and shacks. The miners settlement on Algamarca hill is a 15-minute drive from the village of the same name, home to 200 famil…

BOLIVIA: Safe Abortion Nearly Impossible Even in Cases of Rape

Bernarda Claure

LA PAZ, Jun 8 2007 (IPS) – Bolivia s constituent assembly has just two months left to finishing rewriting the country s constitution. In 10 months of sessions, it has approved a single article, regarding the right to hold football matches at high altitudes, in response to the International Football Federation s (FIFA) ban on high-altitude international matches.
Among the thorny issues being debated by the 255 assembly members, 134 of whom belong to the leftwing governing Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), is the question of the right to life, linked to the subject of the legalisation of abortion.

A proposal set forth by the assembly s Committee on Rights, Duties and Guarantees to enshrine the right to life from conception in the new constitution has tri…

ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Dow Unable to Shake Off Bhopal Legacy

Praful Bidwai

NEW DELHI, Jul 8 2007 (IPS) – Try as it might Dow Chemical Company is unable to shake off the criminal liability it inherited for the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster and also responsibility to clean up toxic contamination at the site of the pesticides plant, originally owned and operated by Union Carbide Corporation.
Since 2001 Dow has fully owned Union Carbide and legally taken over its liabilities, including culpability for the world s worst industrial accident which killed over 3,000 people within the first week and inflicted enormous chemical damage upon more than 200,000 others. The injuries led to a further 15,000 deaths and terrible suffering among the survivors.

To make matters worse for Dow, voluntary agencies working on behalf of the survivors have tu…

PERU: Pollution Emergency Plan Instead of Real Action for La Oroya

Milagros Salazar* – Tierramérica

LIMA, Aug 10 2007 (IPS) – Far from halting the source that is poisoning the Andean city of La Oroya, which is home to the Doe Run smelting complex, the Peruvian government ordered a contingency plan for the days when air pollution is worst, as if it were dealing with a natural disaster.
The toxic air of La Oroya is a time bomb for the city #39s children. Credit: Courtesy of Peruvian newspaper La República

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