The Daily IIJ

“HIV/AIDS is not only a problem but an opportunity to change the world,” said Michel Sidibe, the executive director of UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AISDS, during a high level and experts conference in Berlin yesterday.

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The Peoples’ Development Movement (PDM) says it is bigger than any of its members regardless of name, financial status or creed because it is more than a Political Party. PDM Spokesperson Msenga Mlungu said PDM is a movement therefore like all political movements its survival is based on commitment to particular ideals that transcend individuals [...]

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By NEWTON SIBANDA MINERALS in the ground represent potential wealth. And luckily, Africa is blessed with all kinds of ores, gems and fuels locked away, waiting to be liberated. The continental mass is a treasury of bauxite, uranium, gold, platinum, cobalt, diamonds, chromium, manganese, coal, and phosphates, to name but a few. So it is [...]

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FROM Newton Sibanda in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia CITIZENS for a Better Environment (CBE) executive director Peter Sinkamba says African governments need to protect communities who resort to litigation against mining firms by making it mandatory for governmentts to indemnify them against costs if they lost their cases in court. “We also need to develop quantum [...]

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FROM Newton Sibanda in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia THE second African Union Conference of ministers Responsible for minerals development opened yesterday with a clarion call for the continent to ensure that it achieves economic development from its mineral wealth. African Union Commission (AUC) Director for Trade and Industry Jean Noel Francois was the first to give [...]

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A four time Presidential aspirant of the Peoples National Convention (PNC), Dr. Edward Mahama has waded into the controversial debate over the feasibility of the proposed one time premium payment for the National Health Insurance Scheme by the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), saying the move could be a recipe for disaster in the future. [...]

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Corruption afflicts all countries, undermining social progress and breeding inequality and injustice, says United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, on the day of International Anti-corruption celebration. For this reason, Mr. Ki-moon has urged all governments, which have not yet ratified their United Nations Convention Against Corruption to do so without delay. Continue reading http://www.globalnewsreel.com/2011/12/ban-ki-moon-corruption-undermines.html

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November 19, 2011 By NEWTON SIBANDA LUSAKA, Zambia-IN a landmark judgment, the Lusaka High Court has ordered Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) to pay K10billion (US$2million) to 2000 Chingola residents on Zambia’s Copperbelt for polluting the Mushishima river. The Mushishima is a tributary of the Kafue River, which accounts for about 40 percent of Zambia’s domestic [...]

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Under the ruling of the Supreme Court, 4,915 hectares of the Cojuangco-controlled Hacienda Luisita must be awarded to its 6,296 farmworker-beneficiaries under the government’s Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), which was started by President Corazon Aquino in 1988.

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News of the Sri Lankan court sentencing ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka to jail and him denying the charge of implicating the government in war crimes is proof that the country is not ready to own up to the alleged atrocities committed during the 26-year civil war against the Tamil Tigers. In the meantime, Sri Lankan urban [...]

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