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Predicting cholera outbreaks

JOHANNESBURG, 1 June 2011 (IRIN) - A new study into the linkages between rain, temperature and cholera shows scientists may be able to predict epidemics in time to save people from the life-threatening disease. full report

AFRICA: Sleeping sickness in cattle put to bed?

 JOHANNESBURG, 20 May 2011 (IRIN) - New research on sleeping sickness in African cattle is holding out the possibility that in the not too distant future Africa could start seeing the introduction of cattle resistant to sleeping sickness - a disease which kills billions of dollars worth of livestock every year. full report

ZIMBABWE: Critical shortage of midwives

 HARARE, 12 May 2011 (IRIN) - Tafadzwa Kazingizi, a 19-year-old mother from Chitungwiza, about 30km south of Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, has been haemorrhaging since she gave birth four months ago. She did not visit a prenatal clinic during her pregnancy. full report

Analysis: Doubts over role of cash transfers in women's empowerment

 BANGKOK, 6 May 2011 (IRIN) - Doubts are emerging over whether cash transfers, designed to strengthen local markets, also empower women and change gender roles in emergencies. full report

FOOD: Home-grown nutrition research for Africa

 JOHANNESBURG, 21 April 2011 (IRIN) - A group of international academic institutions and an NGO backed by the European Union (EU) have launched Sustainable Nutrition Research for Africa in the Years to come, or SUNRAY, to develop a nutrition agenda for Africa, with specific emphasis on the 34 sub-Saharan countries. full report

ZIMBABWE: Threat of waterborne disease from unsafe water

 HARARE, 15 April 2011 (IRIN) - Jennifer Madongonda, 43, shares a seven-roomed house with three other families in the low-income suburb of Budiriro, about 15km southwest of the Zimbabwean capital, Harare. Seven months ago the municipality cut off water supply because they couldn’t pay the bill. full report

AFRICA: Opposition building to Great Green Wall

 NAIROBI, 8 April 2011 (IRIN) - What’s green, controversial, 15km wide, 7,775km long, cuts across 11 African countries and is designed to reduce livestock deaths and boost food security for millions of people? Nothing yet, but the Great Green Wall project, a pipe-dream for decades, was recently endorsed by a swathe of African states stretching from Senegal to Djibouti. full report

ZIMBABWE: Desperate measures in times of hunger

 HARARE, 29 March 2011 (IRIN) - A mother of four in Zimbabwe’s rural Midlands Province gave her husband custody of her children, after divorcing him three years ago, because the failing crops on her two-acre plot meant she would be unable to feed them. full report

ZIMBABWE: UN agencies barred from food assessment for 'political reasons'

 HARARE, 16 March 2011 (IRIN) - UN agencies and other non-government stakeholders are being barred by Zimbabwe’s agricultural minister from participating in food and crop assessment surveys on the basis of "national security". full report

ZIMBABWE: Dry spell ends prospect of good harvest

 HARARE, 11 March 2011 (IRIN) - A dry spell that has persisted for over a month, adversely affecting crops in many parts of Zimbabwe, could mean a lean year ahead for farmers. full report

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