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Halifa Blames Africa’s Woes on Greed and Ignorance

As theworld’s economy continues to experience a major slowdown owing to what many describedas the worst financial crisis ever, Mr. Halifa Sallah, Director of People’sCentre for Social Science, Research, Civic Awareness and Community Initiatives,has identified Africa’s main obstacles as greed and ignorance.Mr Sallah,who is also the Spokesperson of the opposition National Alliance for Democracyand Development (NADD), said in an interview with The Point that ignorance and greed are the bane of...

DRC: Hidden killers on the loose

The full extent of the threat posed by landmines and other unexplodedordnance in the Democratic Republic of Congo is unknown but the deadly weaponsare a daily concern for tens of thousands of displaced people in the east. "Mines and UXOs [unexploded ordnance] are strewnall over the countryside," Francesca Fontanini, external relations officerfor the UN Refugee Agency(UNHCR) in DRC, said. "They are among the most pernicious consequencesof the armed conflict." The mines and UXOs, according to...

COTE D'IVOIRE: Rural areas neglected by AIDS response

Rural areas in Côte d'Ivoire seem to have fallen off the map in HIV/AIDS prevention efforts, and although the HIV prevalence rates are still lower than those found in cities, experts fear they could climb. "We have observed an imbalance in terms of the approach to the fight against AIDS in rural and urban areas," Professor Bassirou Bonfoh of the Swiss Centre for Scientific Research (CSRS) told IRIN/PlusNews. "Attention is focused a bit too much on urban areas, while rural areas remain a...