The Daily IIJ

I scan through notes scrawled while I was a patient in Durban for five days last month after I was admitted on the last day of our two-week Summer Academy training course attended together with 16 other mid career journalists from 10 SADC countries. Addington Hospital, the ward, patients, SABC TV /e-news, cholera outbreaks, three [...]

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Monday, an Accra based radio station, Joy FM turned itself into the arbiter of Ghanaian elections: the station, at approximately 1:48pm, declared John Evans Atta Mills the next president of Ghana. Despite just 14 of the 39 polling station results from the NPP’s traditional stronghold of Ashanti Region being certified by the EC, Joy FM, [...]

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Jendayi Elizabeth Frazer, the United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Sunday evening described the just ended presidential run-off election in Ghana as very impressive.

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Another year has nearly passed by. May I take this opportunity to wish all of my friends and colleagues all over the world, especially all INWENT and IIJ members:

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Gigil Varghese Ten youngsters, including environmental lawyers, doctoral students and IITians, are going on a month-long expedition starting January on electric-cum-solar powered vehicles to spread the message about clean and green living. The group, which will traverse the length of the country from Chennai to Delhi, covering about 3,500 km, will be in Mumbai from [...]

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A snapshot of the blatant lies and the terrible truth in Zimbabwe today Last Thursday President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe declared that his country’s cholera epidemic, which had made sensational headlines throughout the world, was now over. The danger had been “arrested”. There was now no more cholera in Zimbabwe. Also last Thursday Pedzisai Munda, [...]

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THE unwelcome Media Practitioners Bill passed in the Botswana Parliament last week will not only tighten freedom of expression in the country but weigh down heavily on the 14-member Southern African Development Community (SADC)’s already battered image due to Zimbabwe’s already repressive media laws.

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As UN climate talks wind down here on Friday evening, developing countries are celebrating the small success of operationalising an Adaptation Fund, even while expressing frustration about the progress toward a post-2012 treaty to fight climate change. By Priscilla Jebaraj, Poznan

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By Taiwo Rasak, Poznan After twelve days of intensive talks, negotiators at the UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan reach an agreement on the adaptation fund which will see freeing of millions of dollars to help developing countries adapt to severe droughts, floods and other effects of climate change.

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Gigil Varghese Poznan (Poland), December 12 The United Nations Climate Change conference is on the last leg of discussions in Poznan where important decisions on adaptation and mitigation of climate change – the phenomenon of rising sea levels and melting glaciers – are likely to taken. Most of the 189 countries have discussed their national [...]

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