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  • WHAT is the relationship between the eight MDGs and the ‘coming of age’ of Soccer on the African Continent?

    Posted: March 11, 2010, 10:10 am by Dosma
    For when the sounds of the ‘vuvuzela’ start blurring across four South African cities, MDG campaigners will also stand up to make a point in order to be heard. A few days ago, the clock chimed a 100 days left before the global curtain is raised on the first-ever World Cup on African soil and for [...]

  • International Womens Day 2010 : Chronology of Women’s Rights from Clara Zetkin to Angela Merkel

    Posted: March 8, 2010, 9:29 pm by Dosma
    The right to vote and hold a political office is a fairly recent development for women. Read a timeline charting the milestones in equal rights for women from Clara Zetkin to Angela Merkel. The first International Women’s Day was held in 1911 as a way to attract attention to the cause of gender equality. In the [...]

  • Ethiopian Dam Critics Won’t Go Away

    Posted: February 12, 2010, 6:08 pm by Dosma
    ADDIS ABABA, (IPS) – Ethiopia is building a 240-metre high dam on the Omo River that is intended to end the country’s electricity shortage and supply power to neighbouring countries. Not everyone’s happy. The Gilgel Gibe III dam will hold back 14.7 million cubic metres of water. Its 1,870 MW generating capacity will be a significant [...]

  • Kenyan Bumper Maize Harvest in Coast and Southeast

    Posted: February 9, 2010, 12:50 pm by Dosma
    Photo: Wikimedia Commons The Ministry of Agriculture estimates that about 540,000 metric tons of maize will be harvested from the short-rains season (file photo) NAIROBI,  (IRIN) – Kenya’s coastal and southeastern regions will harvest a bumper maize crop from mid-February following El Nino-enhanced rains that fell in December, according to experts. “The most likely situation between January [...]

  • Tree planting in Kenya’s Mau Complex Signals New Beginnings for a Critical Ecosystem

    Posted: January 18, 2010, 10:14 am by Dosma
    Nairobi, 15January 2010 – Kenya took a step to restore its diminishing water towers and address rapid environmental degradation when it launched a tree planting drive in the Kiptunga area of the Mau Forest Complex on Friday. 20,000 tree seedlings were planted on 20 hectares at a ceremony attended by Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga and [...]

  • What drives conflict in northern Kenya

    Posted: December 18, 2009, 7:02 pm by Dosma
    MARSABIT, 18 December 2009 (IRIN) – Cattle raids, inter-communal resource conflicts and banditry are common across much of the arid lands of northern Kenya, where firearms are increasingly common among pastoralist communities. In 2009 alone, such violence claimed more than 354 lives, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Kenya. In [...]

  • Dandora Waste Site Under the Spotlight

    Posted: December 18, 2009, 7:02 pm by Dosma
    Eight years after Dandora, the site of Nairobi’s only rubbish dump, was declared full and a health hazard, tons of fuming waste from more than four million city dwellers continue to be added daily, exposing local residents to illness but also profiting a few. More than 100,000 people live around the dumpsite, a 13-hectare grey zone [...]

  • Historic UN Climate Change Conference Kicks off in Copenhagen

    Posted: December 8, 2009, 10:03 am by Dosma
    Copenhagen (Denmark), 7 December 2009 – The United Nations Climate Change Conference kicked off today in Copenhagen with a strong sense of confidence that countries can seal a comprehensive, ambitious and effective international climate change deal in Demark and with an unprecedented sense of urgency to act on climate change. The highly anticipated conference [...]

  • Can indigenous knowledge reduce climate disaster risk?

    Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:22 am by Dosma
    I have just spent three weeks in Northern Kenya among the Borana people, followed by three weeks in Mindanao, southern Philippines, partly with the Higaonan tribe. Vastly different countries yet I was immediately struck by the similarities in the challenges the communities faced, including drought, conflict, floods and general environmental degradation. [...]

  • Africa Takes Firm Stance on Climate Change

    Posted: October 30, 2009, 11:50 am by Dosma
    Africa will neither accept replacement of the Kyoto Protocol, nor its merger with any new agreement, say African climate change negotiators meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at the last African major preparatory gathering, before the UN Climate Change negotiations in Copenhagen in December. Negotiators say actions for Africa should be voluntary and nationally appropriate, and must [...]

  • What is Behind the Mau Complex Controversy?

    Posted: October 1, 2009, 11:31 am by Dosma
    Photo: Jane Some/IRIN Over the past two decades, the Mau complex has lost at least 107,000ha of forest cover due to irregular and unplanned settlements, logging and charcoal burning, as well as increased agriculture (file photo) The continued degradation of the Mau complex – Kenya’s largest water catchment area – threatening everything from the spectacular annual [...]

  • Kenya Threatened by New Urban Disaster

    Posted: September 24, 2009, 11:15 am by Dosma
    Rapid urbanization is changing the face of poverty in Kenya “If the government does not acknowledge this crisis, it will get even worse. Failure to address this now will leave Kenya paying for generations to come.” Philippa Crosland Taylor Head of Oxfam GB, Kenya Kenya is facing a new urban timebomb, with millions of Nairobi residents [...]

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