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Civil Society Groups Call for Action to Curb Land Grabbing
Civil society organisations are calling on governments in developing countries to stop leasing and selling out land to transnational corporations because it leads to land degradation and food...
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SWAZILAND: Processing Plant Threatens Water in Capital
A multi-million dollar iron-ore reprocessing plant in the northern part of Swaziland, owned by Indian mining company Salgaocar, is threatening the water security of local communities and even the...
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SWAZILAND: Small Loans for Young Entrepreneurs to Help Fight Crisis
While the Swazi economy is teetering on the brink of collapse, the government is banking on the future by providing funds to help young people set up businesses. Futhi Mngomezulu operating her...
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SWAZILAND-SOUTH AFRICA: New Railway Line to Boost Economies
The 146-kilometre railway line to be established between South Africa and Swaziland will help reduce the cost of doing business between the two countries. Soon a railway line will link South Africa and...
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Swaziland’s Cooperatives No Threat to Banks
Nomsa Tsabedze is one of the many people at the Bunye Betfu, Buhle Betfu Credit and Savings Cooperatives waiting to apply for a loan to pay for her children’s school fees. Many Swazi’s prefer to put...
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Living on a Meal a Day in Swaziland
Margaret Gamedze earns a living doing laundry for people in her community in Msunduza Township, which lies about a kilometre outside Swaziland’s capital city of Mbabane. But since the country’s fiscal...
View ArticleCommunity Volunteers Convince Ugandan Families to Have Fewer Children
It is midmorning at the Kanungu Health Centre IV and the queue of patients grows as more people start to arrive for treatment at this rural facility more than 400 kilometres outside the Ugandan capital...
View ArticleTeachers’ Strike Does Not Mean Political Liberation for Swaziland
Swazis should not see the ongoing nationwide one-month teachers’ strike as a movement capable of overthrowing the political regime here, despite the fact that civil servants and nurses have joined the...
View ArticleIn 2012, Swaziland’s King Faces People Power
Swaziland’s King Mswati III is under immense pressure following the constitutional crisis that has resulted from his cabinet’s refusal to resign after the House of Assembly passed a vote of no...
View ArticleTaking the Knowledge of Doha Back to Kenya’s Rural Communities
The skyscraper Qatari capital city of Doha is a far cry from Cecilia Kibe’s home in Turkana district, a remote area in Kenya inhabited by mostly nomadic communities and pastoralists hit hard by the...
View ArticleFrom Doha to Dakar, Food Insecurity is the Norm
Qatar may be one of the richest countries in the world, but it has something in common with its African counterparts – food insecurity. This Middle-Eastern oil-producing nation imports 90 percent of...
View ArticleThe Struggle to Keep Swaziland’s Primary Schools Free
As the Swazi government struggles to guarantee a no-cost nationwide primary school system, it finds itself sparring against school principals over the question if it is a lack of funds or an abundance...
View Article/UPDATE*/Boreholes, Boreholes Everywhere….And Not a Drop to Drink
Every day for the last four years, 52-year-old Tintfombi Msibi has had to walk past the borehole in her village of Ekuphakameni, one of the driest rural villages in southern Swaziland, to a dirty...
View ArticleThe Search for Swaziland’s TB-Infected Mine Workers
For more than a decade after 1992, when Swazi gold miner Benson Maseko, 50, fell ill with chest pains and a nagging cough, he did not seek treatment. Because of his illness, Maseko was retrenched...
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In Swaziland, Seeds Beat Drought
Happy Shongwe, a smallholder farmer from rural Maphungwane in eastern Swaziland, shows off her seeds. Credit: Mantoe Phakathi/IPSThe overcast sky is a sign that it might rain, and Happy Shongwe, a...
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African Farmers Lead the Way
Development in Africa will only be led through agriculture, says the CEO of the New Economic Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), Dr. Ibrahim Mayaki. CEO of NEPAD Ibrahim Mayaki. Credit: UN...
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Eradicating Hunger in a World of Plenty
The world today faces a rather stunning paradox. We produce enough to feed seven billion people, but high prices and other factors have pushed adequate nutrition out of reach for more than one in 10,...
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Dirt Isn’t So Cheap After All
Healthy soil looks dark, crumbly, and porous, and is home to worms and other organisms. It feels soft, moist, and friable, and allows plant roots to grow unimpeded. Credit: Colette Kessler, USDA...
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Crossing Borders with Trade
Sipho Mabaso selling the second-hand clothing he imports from Mozambique. He said he has been forced to pay bribes to Swaziland Revenue Authority (SRA) officials at the border. Credit: Mantoe...
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Swazi Chiefs Shut Women Out of Parliament
Women in Swaziland’s Ekwendzeni Chiefdom register to vote for the primary election. Analysts say that chauvinistic practices are being used to prevent women from participating in the Aug. 24 elections....
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