IPS Inter Press Service - AfricaIPS Africa provides news features and analyses on the events and processes affecting political, economic and social development of people and nations in Africa. In directing this coverage, emphasis is put on not only hearing the voices of those in positions of power and formal authority, but more on providing access for actors in civil society and the majority of the people whose voices have often been silent in the media.Q&A: Is Democracy Dangerous in Multi-ethnic Societies- (Found June 29, 2008 ) OXFORD, Jun 26 (IPS) - The Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) would seem to have its work cut out for it in a world racked by brutal and enduring conflict. The centre&39;s goal is to explore the links between ethnicity, inequality and conflict in order to identify policies that could lead to more inclusive multi-ethnic societies.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42981 REFUGEES-CHAD: Water and Wood Shortages Worsen- (Found June 29, 2008 ) IRIBA, Jun 26 (IPS) - Every morning soon after sunrise, Fatne Abdaraman walks a short distance across the Iridimi refugee camp in eastern Chad hauling a twenty-litre plastic jug. She lines it up along with other women&39;s containers at the water distribution point, then awaits her turn to draw her daily allotment of one of Central Africa&39;s scarcest resources, one that underpins ongoing conflict in the region.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42982 HEALTH-MALAWI: Water Woes in Model Hospital- (Found June 29, 2008 ) LILONGWE, Jun 27 (IPS) - Gladys Mawera&39;s face is contorted with pain - both she and her newborn baby survived a complicated birth three days ago -- but she has not been able to take the painkillers and antibiotics prescribed to her by the medical personnel at the Chiradzulu District Hospital in southern Malawi. The hospital has been without water for five days.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42992 RIGHTS-ZIMBABWE: Women Bear Brunt of Violence- (Found June 29, 2008 ) HARARE, Jun 28 (IPS) - "We are too familiar with the violence that was meted upon numerous of us from 1890 when the colonialists came into our country right up to the most recent elections. Chief among these forms of violence is sexual violence, and it concomitant implication, HIV infection. Zimbabwean women now have the lowest life expectancy world wide because of HIV & AIDS -- 34 years."http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43006 TRADE: U.S. Farm Subsidies May Survive WTO Doha Round- (Found June 29, 2008 ) GENEVA, Jun 24 (IPS) - Delegates at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) disagree with WTO Director General Pascal Lamys view that the negotiations on trade in agricultural products are nearly there.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42939 |