ANGOLANS VOTE FOR A PEACEFUL FUTURE
by Phyllis Johnson
When Angolans went to the polls in national elections last month, they voted for a peaceful future.
The mood at polling stations was...
GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
by Mutizwa Mukute (This is the second in a series of four articles about water problems in the region)
People in south-east Zimbabwe are taking...
THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF DROUGHT ON INDUSTRY IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
By Tendai Msengezi (This is a last in series of four articles about the drought in southern Africa and its implications)
"Water crisis forces businesses...
NATIONAL RESPONSE TO THE RIO EARTH SUMMIT: TAKING POSITIVE STEPS
by Costa Chisvo
Zimbabwe is the first country to organise a national response to the United Nations Earth Summit which took place in June in...
AFRICA’S CHILDREN – OUR HOPE FOR TOMORROW
By Kudzai Makombe
"Children are the flowers that never wither," the late President Samora Machel of Mozambique once said.
Indeed, children are flowers of the world...
MAPUTO: A HIVE OF ACTIVITY
By Tendai Msenge
Sixteen years of a costly and highly destructive war coupled with the worst drought in living memory, have not succeeded in breaking...
DOES THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY SUPPORT DEMOCRACY AND PEACE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA?
by David Martin and Phyllis Johnson
The will of the international community to support democracy and peace is being tested in southern Africa at present,...
THE EFFECTS OF DROUGHT ON AGRICULTURE
By Richard Chidowore (This is the third in a series of four articles about the drought in southern Africa and its implications)
Three years of...
SOUTHERN AFRICAN RIVERS RUN DRY
By Mutizwa Mukute (This is the second in a series of four articles about the drought in southern Africa and its implications.)
As southern Africa's...
SUPPLEMENTARY FEEDING – SUSTAINING CHILDREN THROUGH THE DROUGHT
By Kudzai Makombe
Sitting in her smoky but well-kept kitchen hut breast-feeding her two- month-old baby, Amai Judy (Judy's mother), surprisingly appears very composed despite...
CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
by Richard Chidowore
Caetano Domingo watched with little interest as the older people in his village in Zambezia Province celebrated the ceasefire agreement between the...
HUNGER STALKS RENAMO IN RURAL MOZAMBIQUE
by David Martin in Maputo
Forces of the Mozambique National Resistance (MNR or Renamo) inside Mozambique were demoralized and deserting in consequential numbers when the...