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ZIMBABWE: Conjuring up a state of emergency

HARARE Tuesday, December 02, 2008 (IRIN) - There are growing suspicions that the looting by soldiers in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, may be an elaborate ruse to allow President Robert Mugabe to declare a state of emergency, suspending the constitution and, with it, all civil liberties. In the past few days soldiers - including members of the Presidential Guard - have looted shops and robbed informal foreign currency dealers after they were unable to withdraw their wages from banks because...

MAURITANIA: Desertification threatens to wipe out livelihoods, communities

NOUAKCHOTT Tuesday, December 02, 2008 (IRIN) - Environmental degradation, responsible for the dangerous displacement of sand dunes in Mauritania, has wiped out homes, livestock and livelihoods throughout the desert country. An October UN study estimated that land degradation costs nearly US$200 million annually in potential revenue losses and health care expenses. UN researchers calculated the value of lost cultivable land, disappearing trees and water sources, along with the health care...

PAKISTAN: Survey shows high HIV levels in Gujrat

GUJRAT Tuesday, December 02, 2008 (IRIN) - An ongoing investigation into the large number of HIV cases in the small town of Jalalpur Jattan in Pakistan's northern Gujrat district, in Punjab Province, is expected to shed light on patterns of infection in the region and influence the future direction of the country's HIV policy. In August, the New Light AIDS Control Society, a local non-governmental organisation, conducted random HIV tests of 342 people in the area; an alarming 90 were...

Rwanda trial arm-twisting Kenya, claims Kabuga wife

The wife of Rwanda fugitive Felicien Kabuga now claims the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) is blackmailing Kenya.

Broadcaster cash-strapped, say auditors

Report shows Kenya Broadcasting Corporation was indebted to the tune of Sh12 billion and requires more exchequer funding to survive.

Prisoners pampered by State and NGOs, say warders

At the slightest instigation by hardcore criminals, prisoners in several jails have in the past few weeks been going on the rampage, harassing warders and threatening to kill them.

Prime Minister to get official time to answer MPs’ queries

Prime Minister Raila Odinga will get 45 minutes every Wednesday in Parliament to brief MPs on Government matters and field questions from them.

Experts to review MPs tax, says Raila and Marende

The campaign to have MPs accept taxation of their enormous allowances is gaining momentum, with Parliament appointing an independent team to review and recommend salaries and allowances.

Treasury seeks Sh400m to send Kivuitu team home

The fate of the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) appeared sealed this week as two crucial meetings were held to work out legal and financial modalities to disband it.

ETHIOPIA: Children at greatest risk among Afar’s drought-displaced

EREBTI Tuesday, December 02, 2008 (IRIN) - Thousands of vulnerable civilians who left their homes in north-eastern Ethiopia in June because of drought are living in poor conditions in an urban area in Afar region, residents and local officials said on 24 November.“Some 519 families moved to Erebti town from the two most affected kebeles [wards] of Haitan and Aleyta when they started losing their livestock to the drought,” a field staff member of an international NGO, who requested anonymity,...