Liberian President aims to become an inspiration to others
13 November 2009
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says Liberia will battle against poverty despite the odds stacked against the country
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The rains have come, the land is lush but Ethiopians still go hungry
13 November 2009
The green highlands of West Badawacho in south-west Ethiopia are not a place where you would expect to find hunger. The land is fertile and lush. Rain falls on fields covered with waist-high maize and red flowers dot the tree-lined tracks leading deep into rural farming land. But West Badawacho is in the grip of the [...]
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India’s disappearing daughters
13 November 2009
In June 2008 I wrote a report for NGO ActionAid on India’s disappearing daughters. The report was based on new research from India that showed that sex-selective abortions and systematic neglect of girl children is on the increase. It is estimated that around 10 million female foetuses may have been aborted in India over [...]
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Argentina’s veterans die of shame
13 November 2009
Twenty-five years ago, Miguel Boyero was aboard the Argentinian warship the General Belgrano when it was sunk by torpedoes fired from a British submarine at the start of the Falkland Islands war. Boyero survived; 329 of his comrades died. Last month, Boyero hanged himself just days after the start of the war’s 25th anniversary commemorations. He [...]
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Will tourism wreck Grenada’s environment while rescuing its economy?
13 November 2009
In September 2004, 150km-an-hour winds hit the small Caribbean island of Grenada, flattening 95% of buildings, killing dozens and making thousands homeless. Jenny Gilchrist, a local woman from the parish of St David’s, remembers the devastation which greeted her the morning after the storm hit. “Our island was destroyed, my house had the roof ripped clean off, [...]
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Hope dries up for Nicaragua’s Miskito
12 November 2009
When the first white cranes started appearing on the banks of the Rio Coco, deep in the Nicaraguan rainforest, Marciano Washington told his sons to start preparing the family’s three hectares of land for planting. A month later, the weather-beaten Miskito elder from the town of San Carlos shades his eyes from the baking sun and [...]
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Annie Kelly is a multimedia journalist who covers human rights, international development and social affairs for The Guardian and The Observer newspapers and other international media.
She is currently based in Buenos Aires and London.
To find out more about Annie, visit her About Me page.
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