Southern Africa : IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 338 for 16 - 22 June 2007
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JOHANNESBURG , 22 June 2007 (IRIN) - ZIMBABWE: Government and opposition leave civil society out of talks Zimbabwe's civic society organisations say they are being sidelined from negotiations in Pretoria, South Africa, between the divided opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC),
and the ZANU-PF government. http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72865LESOTHO: Government should declare state of emergency, says UN official The government in Lesotho should declare a
state of emergency to help donors respond to the worst drought in the kingdom in 30 years, a senior UN official told IRIN. http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72848AFRICA: Armed forces
find HIV a tough opponent When young men sign up to join the army, they have to undergo a series of tests to determine their eligibility. Increasingly, in Africa, an HIV test is one of them and, if
you are positive, a potential career can come to an abrupt halt. http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72813ZAMBIA: AIDS drug recall creates panic Contamination of the AIDS drug,
Viracept, has created panic among HIV-positive Zambians on antiretroviral therapy, who fear other AIDS drugs may not be safe. http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72823MALAWI: Political
instability threatens poverty spending As President Bingu wa Mutharika's minority party faces the possibility of losing more seats in parliament, Malawi's civil society has expressed
concern that this year's budget, expected to be presented next week, might be stalled. http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72826LESOTHO: Curfew imposed after attacks A curfew has
been imposed in Maseru, capital of the kingdom of Lesotho, after "politically motivated" attacks on the homes of three government ministers and an opposition leader, according to a
government official. http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72796ZIMBABWE: Slavery has been 'legalised' say rights advocates Slave wages and the deaths of about 10,000
Zimbabwean farmworkers as a consequence of the government's land-redistribution policy are some of issues highlighted by rights groups in a recent report published on the plight of the
country's one million farmworkers. http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72797© IRIN. All rights reserved. More humanitarian news and analysis: http://www.irinnews.org
