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DAKAR Friday, July 16, 2010 (IRIN) - Accusations of child witchcraft are on the rise in sub-Saharan Africa - spurred on by urbanization, poverty, conflict and fragmenting communities, creating a [...]

KIWANJA Monday, July 19, 2010 (IRIN) - It is a sunny day at the Mashango primary school in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu Province. That is good news for teacher Dusaba Mbomoya who [...]

EPWORTH Friday, July 23, 2010 (IRIN) - Simbarashe Choga, 65, a retired teacher, is the local butcher in Epworth, some 20km northeast of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare; he is also the principal of the [...]

LAHORE Thursday, August 05, 2010 (IRIN) - Getting through the day in squelching mud and waist-high flood water is hard enough for the able-bodied. For the sick, the elderly, disabled, the very [...]