Weekly Round-Up - IRINSA-299: 15-Sep-06
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IRIN-SA Weekly Round-Up 299
11 - 15 September 2006
CONTENTS:
ANGOLA-ZAMBIA: Food production declines as Angolan refugees go home
NAMIBIA: Caprivi political party declared illegal
SOUTH AFRICA: Officials under pressure to contain deadly TB
SOUTH AFRICA: The world's biggest ARV Programme?
SOUTH AFRICA: Ethanol - boon or bust?
ZIMBABWE: Police stymie nationwide protests
ANGOLA-ZAMBIA: Food production declines as Angolan refugees go home
The repatriation of Angolan refugees is creating food shortages in and
around the Zambian camps they have lived in for decades. Zambia hosts
about 143,000 refugees from Africa's civil wars and politically unstable
regions, including Angola, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo,
Rwanda, Somalia and Uganda, in a string of camps along its western and
northern borders.
Full report http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=55543
NAMIBIA: Caprivi political party declared illegal
The government has all but banned a political party wanting self-rule
for the Caprivi Strip in northeastern Namibia, drawing strong criticism
from human rights organisations on the grounds that this is
"unconstitutional".
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=55509
SOUTH AFRICA: Officials under pressure to contain deadly TB
Health officials in South Africa are fighting to contain the spread of a
deadly, drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis (TB) after an HIV-positive
woman with the disease refused treatment and walked out of a
Johannesburg hospital. Doctors have since located and quarantined the
woman, but fear she might have infected several others with extremely
drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB), a virulent disease that has
already killed 52 people in the east-coast province of KwaZulu-Natal.
Full report http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=55548
SOUTH AFRICA: The world's biggest ARV Programme?
To be HIV positive and living in South Africa is to be part of a
national lottery that puts your current chances of accessing
antiretroviral (ARV) treatment at about 25 percent. If you cannot afford
private healthcare, make that just under 20 percent. Aside from your
income bracket, the next best indicator of whether you will get your
hands on those vital drugs is the province and the district in which you
live.
Full report http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=55562
SOUTH AFRICA: Ethanol - boon or bust?
South African farmer Hannes Haasbroek flew home from an agriculture
conference in the United States six years ago, inspired by the novel and
potentially lucrative idea of distilling maize into bioethanol fuel for
vehicles. His friends laughed at him, but in little more than a year,
the country's first billion-dollar bioethanol factory will be pumping
out 500,000 litres of the liquid fuel every day. Seven more of the
enormous factories are planned for sites across the country.
Full report http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=55584
ZIMBABWE: Police stymie nationwide protests
Police foiled a nationwide anti-government protest by the country's
largest labour federation when they arrested union, civic society and
opposition party leaders, among others. A Zimbabwe Congress of Trade
Unions (ZCTU) spokesman in the capital, Harare, told IRIN that at least
500 people were taken into custody after protests were staged in 34
urban centres nationwide, including the capital and the second city,
Bulawayo.
Full report http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=55550
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