Southern African News Features

THE ELUSIVE DOVE OF PEACE STILL OVERFLIES ANGOLA

by Phyllis Johnson This month, November, is significant for Angola, as the deadline for rebel forces to disarm and dismantle their command posts. The leader of...

SADC STATES CAN BE THE “LIONS OF AFRICA”

by Munetsi Madakufamba With southern Africa now enjoying relative peace and stability, there is need to re-Iocate resources toward promotion of increased regional trade and...

COUNTRIES URGED TO INVEST IN RENEW ABLE SOLAR ENERGY

by Tinashe Madava This is the second in a Jour-part series on Solar Energy Scientific research is showing that solar energy is the most environmentally...

CARING FOR THE EARTH

by Munyaradzi Chenje About four years after the Earth Summit which spawned Agenda 21, more than 2,000 people from all over the world recently gathered...

THE TRUTH ABOUT MBUZINI: WHO KNOWS AND WHO WILL TELL?

By Phyllis Johnson As the and Reconciliation Commission begins to unravel the atrocities of apartheid in South Africa, closer and closer to the critical questions...

SADC AND EU MINISTERS RECONFIRM COOPERATION

by Phyllis Johnson The second consultative conference between Southern Africa and Europe ended in Windhoek, Namibia, with a pledge to further strengthen and expand the...

PROPOSED WTO TREATY THREAT TO CAPACITY-BUILDING

by Munetsi Madakufamba A proposal for the establishment of a Multilateral Investment Agreement (MIA) in the World Trade Organisation (WTO), to be adopted in the...

CHILD ABUSE DEMANDS MORE PREVENTIVE MEASURES

by Virginia Muwanigwa Child sexual abuse and prostitution, which is prevalent in almost all the Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries, involves children of both...

BE PREPARED FOR DISASTER MITIGATION, CITIFS URGED

by Joshua Chigodora The theme of this year's International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), Cities at Risk, reminds people in southern Africa and the...

SADC COUNTRIES EXPLORE WAYS TO REDUCE WATER POLLUTION

by Tinashe Madava As industrial and development activities increase, southern Africa's water experts are calling for parallel efforts to improve protection of the region's fresh...

AFRICA FACES FUTURE WITHOUT LOME

by Munetsi Madakufamba As e globalisation of trade intensifies, both generalised and preferential treatment that Africa is currently enjoying from the European Union (EU), under...

YEAR AFTER BEIJING: TRANSLATING WORDS INTO ACTION

by Grace Kwinjeh and Virginia Muwanigwa One year after the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, the most important question is what actions have...