COUNTRIES URGED TO INVEST IN RENEW ABLE SOLAR ENERGY
by Tinashe Madava This is the second in a Jour-part series on Solar Energy
Scientific research is showing that solar energy is the most environmentally...
CARING FOR THE EARTH
by Munyaradzi Chenje
About four years after the Earth Summit which spawned Agenda 21, more than 2,000 people from all over the world recently gathered...
THE TRUTH ABOUT MBUZINI: WHO KNOWS AND WHO WILL TELL?
By Phyllis Johnson
As the and Reconciliation Commission begins to unravel the atrocities of apartheid in South Africa, closer and closer to the critical questions...
SADC AND EU MINISTERS RECONFIRM COOPERATION
by Phyllis Johnson
The second consultative conference between Southern Africa and Europe ended in Windhoek, Namibia, with a pledge to further strengthen and expand the...
PROPOSED WTO TREATY THREAT TO CAPACITY-BUILDING
by Munetsi Madakufamba
A proposal for the establishment of a Multilateral Investment Agreement (MIA) in the World Trade Organisation (WTO), to be adopted in the...
CHILD ABUSE DEMANDS MORE PREVENTIVE MEASURES
by Virginia Muwanigwa
Child sexual abuse and prostitution, which is prevalent in almost all the Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries, involves children of both...
BE PREPARED FOR DISASTER MITIGATION, CITIFS URGED
by Joshua Chigodora
The theme of this year's International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), Cities at Risk, reminds people in southern Africa and the...
SADC COUNTRIES EXPLORE WAYS TO REDUCE WATER POLLUTION
by Tinashe Madava
As industrial and development activities increase, southern Africa's water experts are calling for parallel efforts to improve protection of the region's fresh...
AFRICA FACES FUTURE WITHOUT LOME
by Munetsi Madakufamba
As e globalisation of trade intensifies, both generalised and preferential treatment that Africa is currently enjoying from the European Union (EU), under...
YEAR AFTER BEIJING: TRANSLATING WORDS INTO ACTION
by Grace Kwinjeh and Virginia Muwanigwa
One year after the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, the most important question is what actions have...
SOUTHERN AFRICA: DRUG RESISTANT DISEASES STRAINING NATIONAL BUDGETS
by Caiphas Chimhete
Previously curable diseases are now re-emerging drug resistant and are putting a strain on most Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries' health...
NEED FOR COUNTRIES TO RATIFY CONVENTION ON DESERTIFICATION
by Tinashe Madava
Combating desertification has become one of the major challenges facing southern Africa to protect its food-producing capacity.
Warnings from experts over the past...
