LIBERIA: RIGHTS: Controversial Mayor is Talk of the Town
MONROVIA - This year the rainy season has hit the homeless residents of Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, especially hard.

UGANDA: ECONOMY: Traders Go Down as Prices Go Up
KAMPALA - With the world economy in the grip of a credit crunch, traders and consumers in Uganda are struggling with price inflation and the depreciation of the Ugandan shilling against the US dollar.

SENEGAL: HEALTH: Fistula Sufferers Left To Their Fate
DAKAR - Early marriage and poverty is resulting in high numbers of fistula cases in Senegal’s southern region where 58 percent of deliveries take place at home without any medical assistance.

ZIMBABWE: ECONOMY: 'Money Comes First, Health Second'
HARARE - Gold panners in Zimbabwe’s gold-rich Shamva district are risking their lives through exposure to mercury, which they use to refine the gold dust.

SOUTH AFRICA:: Young, Educated and Unemployed
CAPE TOWN - The private sector should think out of the box and focus less on degrees and diplomas to avert an unemployment crisis among young people, delegates at a recent workshop in the coastal city of Cape Town heard.

KENYA: POLITICS: Report Charges Killing, Torture and Rape by Security Forces
WASHINGTON - Human Rights Watch (HRW) is calling for an immediate investigation of Kenyan security officials it says beat and tortured civilians they were sent to protect in the country’s northeastern Mandera district.

ECOWAS Delay on EPA Allows Ghana to Re-Think: GHANA-EU: TRADE
ACCRA - The extension of talks on a free trade agreement between the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the European Union, has given Ghana an opportunity to reconsider.

SUDAN: POLITICS: Women Ready To Take Their Place
JUBA - South Sudanese women are worried that the gains they made under the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) may be eroded amidst tensions and escalating insecurity linked to elections scheduled for February next year.

SOMALIA: POLITICS: U.S. Confirms Arms Shipments to Bolster Besieged Gov't
WASHINGTON - The U.S. State Department has confirmed that Washington is providing arms and ammunition to the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia in a bid to thwart its defeat by a loose coalition of radical Islamist militias, said by some analysts to be linked to al Qaeda.

MALAWI: ENVIRONMENT: Elephants Out of Harm's Way
LILONGWE - A South African capture team has almost completed the translocation of a herd of elephants from the Phirilongwe forest reserve located in a communal management area in southern Malawi.

NIGERIA: ECONOMY: Nigeria’s Informal Sector Feels the Heat
LAGOS - In Nigeria, the effects of the global economic crisis have trickled down to the informal economy where a decline in sales is being experienced.

MAURITIUS: ECONOMY: Labouring Through a Class Four Cyclone
PORT-LOUIS - Mauritians are beginning to feel the effects of the global economic crisis as thousands of the country’s textile and manufacturing industry workers have been laid off.

MAURITIUS: ECONOMY: Mauritius - Paradise Island or Pirates’ Den?
PORT LOUIS - Pirated goods are finding a ready market on the streets and in local shops in Mauritius, cheating local artists and manufacturers out of profits.

ZIMBABWE: ECONOMY: Investor Absence Fuels Retrenchments
BULAWAYO - While Zimbabwean labour unions are pushing for higher salaries for the few workers still in formal employment, employers have responded with retrenchments.

NAMIBIA: RIGHTS: Namibian Women Take Government to Court on Charges of Forced Sterilisation
WINDHOEK - WINDHOEK – A group of twenty Namibian women are taking their government to court over what they say was forced sterilization by state doctors.

SUDAN: POLITICS: Political Leaders Urged to Rescue Peace Accord
WASHINGTON - The United States has urged Sudanese political leaders meeting in Washington to reinvigorate their 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA).

ZAMBIA: ECONOMY: Hard Times on Copperbelt
Luanshya, ZAMBIA - Zambia’s copper mining industry is reeling from the effects of the global financial crisis.

MOROCCO: RIGHTS: African Refugees Targeted
RABAT - More than three hundred African refugees gathered at the gates of the Moroccan United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Tuesday on their ninth day of protest, asking to be moved to another country because their rights are not respected in Morocco.

ANGOLA: ECONOMY: Military Raids Target Restive Oil-Rich Enclave
WASHINGTON - A new report issued by Human Rights Watch calls on the Angolan government to end the arrest and torture of suspected rebels in the oil-rich enclave of Cabinda.

EGYPT: POLITICS: Nile Sharing Negotiations Break Down Again
CAIRO - Differences over sharing of Nile waters may have deepened following a failed agreement between the nine countries that share the river.

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