Africa
Pirates of necessity
Martyn Drakard | 11 February 2010
Somali pirates some of them are just out of work fishermen.
Albinos in dread of a dark superstition
Martyn Drakard | 14 January 2010
In East Africa, albinos are being killed for their body parts and sold on the black market.
Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles
Martyn Drakard | 26 December 2009
There is hope for Africa, writes a British journalist, perhaps more hope than for more developed countries.
A Malawian miracle
Chinwuba Iyizoba | 07 October 2009
A boy from Malawi saves his family by building a windmill from discarded rubbish.
Tough love just for Africa?
Chinwuba Iyizoba | 24 September 2009
Despite the rhetoric of Western leaders, it appears the West is happy to keep Africa poor to exploit its natural wealth.
Nigeria’s citadel of injustice
Chinwuba Iyizoba | 13 August 2009
Injustice in Nigeria's prison system
Africa needs better media coverage
Martyn Drakard | 22 March 2009
The international media has a woeful ignorance of Africa. Why don't they listen to someone who knows?
African AIDS: the facts that demolish the myths
Michael Cook | 22 March 2009
The mystery of why AIDS has been so devastating in Africa has been solved. And it’s not lack of condoms.
Who’s the real expert?
Jokin de Irala | 21 March 2009
Did any journalists ask an epidemiologist whether the Pope might be right about the ineffectiveness of condoms in fighting the African AIDS epidemic? We did.
A realistic strategy for fighting African AIDS
Matthew Hanley | 29 February 2008
Discussion of the African AIDS crisis is riddled with ideology. The evidence shows that utilitarian HIV prevention guidelines are failing.
The unkindest cut
Carolyn Moynihan | 30 January 2008
Female circumcision is horrible but declining while abortion, unnecessary cosmetic surgery and self-mutilation is not.
AIDS: what’s happening in Uganda?
Angelina Kakooza-Mwesige | 19 April 2006
Ugandan paediatrician Angelina Kakooza-Mwesige faces the scourge of AIDS every day in her young patients. In this interview she suggests that the solution is not more condoms.
Fighting AIDS by bolstering African families
Margaret Ogola | 26 August 2005
Strengthening the family is the answer to many of Africa's ailments, says Kenyan paediatrician, mother and award-winning novelist Margaret Ogola.
A quiet breakthrough in AIDS policy
Michael Cook | 03 December 2004
It was hard to miss World AIDS Day this week. If you weren't approached to buy a red ribbon on the sidewalk, the plight of AIDS sufferers around the globe leapt out of television screens and newspapers.
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