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Sexual Violence in Kenya Still a Major Urban Threat
Reports of gender-based violence are on the rise in Kenya’s cities, and experts say the police must improve their handling of cases of sexual assault to build public trust in the security and justice systems.
Earthquake Assessments in Myanmar Face Access Hurdles
Four days after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar’s eastern Shan State, information about the true scale of the disaster has been slow to emerge given the region’s mountainous terrain, linguistic barriers and security concerns, an...
Trafficking Domestic Workers From Cambodia to Malaysia
Investigations by NGOs in Cambodia have found that companies are recruiting girls as young as 13 to work in Malaysian households, confining them in overcrowded and unhygienic “training centres”, forging birth certificates to raise their age, and paying...
Corruption Scandal Rocks Zambia’s ARV Program
When the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria suspended funding to Zambia in late 2010 it made international headlines and rocked donor confidence, but the stock-outs and drug rationing in the wake of the scandal have received little attention. How...
Aid Critical As Calm Returns to Kenya – Somalia Border Region
Thousands of Somalis displaced by fighting along the Kenya-Ethiopia-Somalia border urgently need water and food, local officials say, as humanitarian workers in Kenya’s northeastern town of Mandera continue to register refugees.
Making Toilets the Norm in Rural Niger
Candid talk about human excrement is making people in rural Niger, where only 2 percent of the population has adequate sanitation, insist on building and using toilets: A project there is showing people from scores of villages the dangers of open defecation.
A Helping Hand for HIV-positive Mothers And Babies in Zimbabwe
The high cost of maternity and health care, the lack of a proper follow-up system, and a limited ability to diagnose HIV infection early in babies means many Zimbabwean children are not being caught by the safety net that the prevention of mother-to-child...
Rice is ‘becoming a Luxury’ in Madagascar
The price of rice, the staple food in Madagascar, has doubled in the past two years, forcing residents in the capital, Antananarivo, to halve their consumption. “At almost 2,000 ariary (US$1) a kilogram, rice has become a luxury item,” Tiana...
