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Current Feed ContentPay-TV viewers are promised more choice by next MarchVARIETY is in store for South African viewers when three more pay-TV channels hit the small screen by March next year. The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) initially received about 18 applications from independent pay-TV operators and five were shortlisted by the end of last year. Only three licences have been issued so far to MultiChoice, Telkom Media and On Digital Media. The other two operators, Walking-On-Water and E-Sat, are still engaged in talks with Icasa...NEPAL: Domestic violence still common - activistsKATHMANDU Tuesday, November 25, 2008 (IRIN) - Married at the age of 12, Radha Neupane has been a victim of domestic violence for two decades. “I’m used to it now. What choice do I have?” asked Neupane who works as a maid in more than three houses, earning less than US$30 per month, to support her children. She gets absolutely no support from her alcoholic husband. “I have to survive for my children. They will be homeless if I leave my husband,” the 32-year old told IRIN in Kathmandu, where...MYANMAR: Cyclone orphans forced to workKINETAWASHAE Friday, October 31, 2008 (IRIN) - After losing his parents to the cyclone, Aung Myint Kyaw had no choice but to give up school to help support the cousin who looks after him. "I don't know what will happen to me," the eight-year-old said in Kinetawashae village, home to 450 inhabitants in Bogale Township in Ayeyarwady Delta, as he scavenged for empty bottles at the roadside. "Whenever I see my friends in their school uniforms I feel like crying," he said. Aung Myint Kyaw is one...Right Choice Supermarket Staff ConvictedFollowing aplea bargain made by defence counsel Tambedou with the prosecution, SulaymanNdure, Ousman Dibba, Babucarr Ceesay, Ousman Ndure and Muhamed Ceesay pleadedguilty to the offence of stealing items of goods at the Right ChoiceSupermarket. Senior Magistrate Abdoulie Mbackeh, of the Kanifing Magistrates’Court, convicted the accused persons and sentenced them to a fine of D5, 000each in default to serve four months imprisonment. In theirplea of mitigation, the accused persons craved the...Right Choice Supermarket Staff ArraignedSulayman Ndure, Baboucarr Ceesay, Ousman-Dibba, Ousman Ndureand Muhammed Ceesay, both employees of Right Choice Supermarket, were on the 6thNovember 2008arraigned for stealing before Senior Magistrate Abdoulie Mbackeh of theKanifing Magistrates’ Court.According to the charge sheet, Sulayman Ndure, BaboucarrCeesay and Ousman Dibba on the 18thOctober 2008,on Count 1 jointly stole items of goods at the Right Choice Supermarket, valuedat D315, 226, property of the said supermarket. Count 2, states...Check this out if you are planning to marryLOVE LINES As choice is concerned when it got to marriage, I think it is deem fit for us to reason together once again about the spouse we desire to marry. So many people find it difficult to make a choice of their own. It is not that they do not know what they want or not having a choice but intermediary is another challenging obstacle that does not give way to pass. But you still have a better standing choice if you want to move on since it is your life. What is the choice? Leap! You are...KENYA: Old but not cold: older people also at riskJames Kioko*, 55, a manager at a 4-star hotel in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, dismisses condoms as "dirty, fuelling prostitution and causing marriage break-ups". "I don't want to know anything about them," he added, echoing the opinion of many Kenyans in the over-50 age bracket, who have not had the benefit of an AIDS information campaign specifically targeting them. Although 1 in 14 HIV-positive people globally is over the age of 50, this age group has largely been left out of HIV...GUINEA-BISSAU: Paying the price for disclosing their HIV statusIf they could go back in time, perhaps they would do things differently. Three women who revealed their HIV-positive status on local television have seen their lives fall apart since they spoke out. The programme was produced by international non-governmental organisation (NGO) ActionAid, with the support of the African Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS. According to Carlos Rui Ribeiro, the coordinator for ActionAid in Guinea Bissau, the women were warned about the impact their television...Tunisia: human rights briefing for 20th anniversary of President Ben Ali’s ruleNext week, 7 November 2007 marks the 20 year anniversary of the accession to power of Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. President Ben Ali’s two decades in office have been marred by a continuing pattern of human rights violations, including arbitrary arrests and detentions, torture and other ill-treatment, unfair trials, harassment and intimidation of human rights defenders and curbs on freedom of expression and association. “After 20 years, it is high time that the Tunisian...BURKINA FASO: Sanitation shamblesSalamata Sanou is one of the lucky few. Her squat, concrete house is surrounded by tarmac with wide channels to carry away rain water. Even at the height of the rainy season she can drive her motorbike up to the door and sleep soundly in the knowledge that she will not wake up to find her bed surrounded by sewage. “I used to have to leave my motorbike at my neighbour’s house and wade home,” said Sanou, who lives in the Lafiabougou area of Burkina Faso’s second city, Bobo-Dioulasso. ... |
