Uganda: Community Radio: Using community radio to heal
UGANDA - GULU - Radio Mega FM’s serves as something of an informal memorial to community radio-driven peace efforts during the Lord’s Resistance Army’s LRA destruction of northern Uganda.

CLIMATE CHANGE:: Africa wants greener cities
CAPE TOWN - African cities must figure out how to adapt to urbanisation and create cities that are more environmentally friendly.

AFRICA WATER: World’s Biggest Hydropower Scheme Will Leave Africans in the Dark
Cape Town - South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed an agreement to build a major hydroelectric power project, which is said to bring electricity to more than half of the continent’s 900 million people.

MALAWI HEALTH: Painkillers Prescribed for Malaria Amid Drug Shortage
LILONGWE - Malawi is experiencing a drug shortage as the country’s international donors remain reluctant to release aid meant for the health sector.

CLIMATE CHANGE AFRICA: Changing weather threatens Africa's food security
Pretoria - While Africa has successfully avoided conflict over shared water courses, it will need greater diplomacy to keep the peace as new research warns that climate change will have an effect on food productivity.

SOUTHERN AFRICA CLIMATE CHANGE: Climate Change will Impede North-South Trade
WINDHOEK - Climate change is increasingly playing a role in North-South trade, as carbon emissions are being used as an excuse to protect markets, with poorer countries likely to lose out.

WEST AFRICA CLIMATE CHANGE: Rising sea level gnaws and West African coast
ABIDJAN - Sea levels on the coasts of Côte d'Ivoire and other West African countries have risen again this year, devastating houses and other infrastructure. The search for effective solutions is lagging behind accelerating coastal erosion.

SOUTH AFRICA CLIMATE CHANGE: One climate policy will be hard to implement
JOHANNESBURG - The implementation of a unified climate change policy across all of South Africa’s government departments will not be easy as the divisions currently work largely as separate entities, says Greenpeace Africa.

BENIN PIRACY: West Africa to meet on piracy
LOME - West African governments are meeting in Benin next month to discuss the more than 30 pirate attacks in the region this year and the response to them.

ZAMBIA ELECTIONS: Results show voters want service delivery
LUSAKA - The election of Michael Chilufya Sata as Zambia’s new president shows that Zambians are more interested in issues of accountability and transparency than mere service delivery, say analysts.

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO DEVELOPMENT: Low river, management blamed for DRC power cuts
KINSHASA - Frequent power cuts have led to the firing of the board of the Democratic Republic of Congo's national electricity company. But it is not clear if sub-par generation from the Inga hydroelectric power stations supplying the capital Kinshasa is due to poor management or to unusually low water levels in the Congo River.

SOUTH SUDAN HUMAN RIGHTS: Children grabbed from South Sudan homes
JUBA - South Sudan children are being snatched from their homes in the dead of night in villages across the state.

INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE: Developing Countries’ Aim at Green Climate Fund
MONTREAL - With its coffers largely dry and its management being contested, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) remains a hot topic among African civil society.

DRC HUMAN RIGHTS: Specialised Court for Serious Human Rights Abuses
KINSHASA - The Democratic Republic of Congo's parliament has created a court to deal with serious violations of human rights.

AFRICA TRADE: East Africa Wants to Expand Its Trade
KAMPALA - The East African Community and European Union are negotiating to resolve the controversy over the delay in signing an economic partnership agreement between the two trading blocks.

SIERRA LEONE HUMAN RIGHTS: Child Rights Exist Only on Paper
FREETOWN - Amnesty International says Sierra Leonean children face serious violations in many domains, citing child labour and inadequate government programmes to address the needs of youth such as war-affected children and orphans.

LIBYA HUMAN RIGHTS: Rebels targetted in Libya
TRIPOLI - Humans Rights Watch has called on the National Transition Council to stop the "arbitrary arrests and abuse of African migrant workers and black Libyans assumed to be mercenaries."

COTE D'IVOIRE ENVIRONMENT: Compensation Money Disappears in Cote D’Ivoire
UNITED NATIONS - Thousands of victims affected by toxic waste dumping in 2006 in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire's commercial capital, still have not received the economic compensation they were promised.

SOMALIA FAMINE: Food Aid Stolen From Famine Victims
MOGADISHU - Masses of food meant for famine victims in Somalia are being stolen and the government plans to fire all of Mogadishu’s 16 district commissioners as a result.

MAURITANIA FOOD SECURITY: Mauritania rethinks farming methods
NOUAKCHOTT - In a bid to reduce food insecurity, the Mauritanian government is trying new approaches to agriculture, including expanded irrigation schemes, popularising new crops and harnessing the energy of recent graduates.

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