Date:   15 December 2010

At a High-Level Conference in New York yesterday, Norway announced its contribution of NOK 325 million to the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for 2011. “We are pleased that Norway is in a position to be able to make a significant contribution to helping those in need worldwide,” commented Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.

With two devastating humanitarian disasters, 2010 has been a particularly challenging year. In Haiti, almost a quarter of a million people lost their lives when the earthquake struck. Large parts of the capital and of the country’s infrastructure were reduced to rubble. Over a million people are still living in makeshift camps. On top of all this, the country has now been hit by a cholera epidemic.

In Pakistan, a total area the size of the British Isles was submerged in flood waters in the worst flood disaster in modern times. Over 20 million people have been affected, and many of them still need assistance. In addition, 2010 was a year beset by a number of other crises, both natural and man-made. Several of these have had little media coverage.

“Many crises occur in countries that lack the resources and capacity to deal with them. These countries are dependent on having well-functioning international humanitarian emergency response mechanisms that can be mobilised rapidly to provide emergency relief and alleviate human suffering. The UN plays a key role in the coordination of humanitarian assistance, and the International Emergency Response Fund (CERF) is the most important joint financing mechanism to this end,” Mr Støre said.

The Fund was established in 2006, and has since then paid out more than USD 1.9 billion in total to 79 countries affected by humanitarian disasters. So far this year, CERF has provided a total of USD 260 million to 34 countries affected by acute crises, and a total of USD 139 million to 17 countries experiencing protracted crises that are often overlooked. Due to a lack of international attention, many countries struggle to finance their emergency relief efforts, and the CERF funds are used to cover their most pressing needs.

“Time is critical when it comes to saving lives and alleviating human suffering, and CERF has shown itself to be the most effective mechanism we have for mobilising a rapid humanitarian response,” Foreign Minister Støre commented.

“We must be prepared for new humanitarian disasters in 2011. Norway is a leading humanitarian actor on the global stage. Being at the forefront by providing substantial support for CERF is a natural part of our engagement in this area,” Mr Støre said.

During a period in which a number of donor countries have reduced their contributions to CERF due to the financial crisis, Norway has increased its support for the Fund. In January this year Norway paid NOK 325 million into the Fund, and now at the end of the year this amount is being supplemented by an additional NOK 50 million. This makes Norway one of the largest donors to the Fund in 2010.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway
Duty Press Officer

The man all are talking about who is the founder of WikiLeaks ordered released by a London court faces yet another hurdle. The Swedish prossecutor has appealed and dwants him to remain in prison. He must, however, deposit cash bail totalling 200.000 pounds if he is finally released after teh hearing of the appeal by the Swedes.

His supporters say the amount is very high and that will result in  more nights in the prison while they try to raise the money.

If finally released, he will be placed under house arrest awaiting the hearing of the extradition case where he is supposed to face rape charges in Sweden.

It has now emerged that the women complaining of rape may have given him sexual services willingly. Many observers conclude that the women may want to cash on his popularity and bring down WikiLeaks.

The Wikileaks has continued to publish cables from US ambassadors worldwide. The release has caused embarrassment to the Americans who speak in two tounges, one at day time and the other at night where they call other world leaders all sorts of bad names.

By Chief editor Korir, African Press International

MYANMAR: Concerns grow over opium and amphetamine production

Photo: Shoresh Kalantari/UNAMA

Second in production only to Afghanistan, Myanmar’s opium cultivation is spreading, especially in conflict areas

BANGKOK, 13 December 2010 (IRIN) – With on-going fighting in the north and continued food insecurity nationwide, researchers warn that combating the significant increases in the production and trafficking of opium and amphetamines in Myanmar will be difficult.

The mix of money, drugs and firearms in the context of poverty and conflict is conducive to the widespread production and trafficking of drugs, said Gary Lewis, Southeast Asia representative for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), at the launch of the latest regional assessment.

Since 2006, land used for opium production has steadily increased in Myanmar, the second largest opium poppy grower in the world, after Afghanistan.

In 2010, an estimated 1.2 million people cultivated opium, and crop area increased by 20 percent from 2009 to 38,100 hectares. Correspondingly, Myanmar’s share of global opium production has increased from 5 percent in 2009 to 14 percent, the report showed.

Methamphetamine increase

Alongside the rise in opium production, experts witnessed a three-fold increase in methamphetamine pill seizures in Myanmar and throughout the region in the past year.

Most of the drug production is designed for export to the region and internationally, the report says. However, experts expressed alarm over indications that within Myanmar, the largest producer of amphetamine type stimulants (ATS), its use is on the rise.

“There is now a twin problem of opium production and amphetamine type stimulants trafficking,” Lewis said. “More alternative livelihoods need to be made available to local communities.”

Few options, limited access

With food security worsening, opium cultivation and ATS trafficking have become more tempting as a source of income.

“We need to change the conditions that motivate this behaviour,” Lewis said.

According to the report, 77 percent of the 1.2 million farmers who are growing poppy are doing it to pay for food, while 9 percent, some 100,000 farmers, grow it for personal use.

Among poppy-producing villages in the northeastern Shan province, where 92 percent of the country’s production originates, an estimated 40 percent of the population do not have enough food to last the year, an increase from 28 percent in 2009, the report said.

Four out of every 10 households in this region grow opium poppy and most of the ATS manufacturing plants are also based here.

According to the surveys, some farmers who stopped growing opium last year were drawn back into it this year to pay back loans used to buy food. At this rate, convincing farmers to abandon opium – the most lucrative crop – will be difficult.

Finally, in the context of conflict between the ethnic minority groups and the government, reaching vulnerable areas is difficult. “Access continues to be a problem,” Jason Eligh, Myanmar’s acting UNODC representative, said.

“It is clear that production and trafficking of drugs in this context cannot be ignored,” Lewis said. “We are calling for more resources and attention to the human security situation [particularly] in Shan state.”

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GLOBAL: Putting urban gardens on the map

Photo: Nancy Palus/IRIN

A woman watering plants in a community micro-garden in Dakar

DAKAR, 13 December 2010 (IRIN) – Mame Penda Diouf talks over car horns and city bus engines as she shows off potted lettuce, mint and potato plants at a traffic circle in the Senegal capital, Dakar. A trader and horticulture trainer, she says micro-gardening creates jobs and allows people to better feed their families.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and many other international and local institutions are pushing just that message – that micro-gardening and other forms of urban horticulture can go a long way to boosting city dwellers’ food security and improving living conditions.

“It is urgent to mainstream urban and peri-urban horticulture, and to recognize its role as a motor in food security and nutrition strategies,” Modibo Traoré, FAO assistant director general, told an international symposium in Dakar organized by FAO and the Senegalese government.

Two hundred people from 39 countries met from 6 to 9 December to talk about building an international network to promote and implement urban horticulture, incorporating the practice into urban planning, and developing alternatives to pesticides.

Urban and peri-urban horticulture is the cultivation of a wide range of crops – including fruits, vegetables, roots, tubers and ornamental plants – in cities and towns and the surrounding areas. FAO says an estimated 130 million urban residents in Africa and 230 million in Latin America engage in agriculture, mainly horticulture, to provide food for their families and/or earn an income.

“While the urban poor, particularly those arriving from rural areas, have long practised horticulture as a livelihood and survival strategy, in many countries the sector is still largely informal, usually precarious, and sometimes illegal,” according to FAO.

People often farm idle urban land, but with no legal standing they can be kicked off when the land is wanted for development. FAO says urban policies should acknowledge the role of urban and peri-urban agriculture in development.

About half the world population lives in urban areas, according to the UN Population Fund; the number is expected to reach some five billion by 2030.

Neveen Metwally, a researcher at the Central Laboratory for Agriculture Climate in Cairo, Egypt, said city dwellers must be convinced of the benefits of urban horticulture, and scientific data translated into messages that speak to the needs of ordinary people so as to broaden the practice.

In Egypt the numerous benefits of rooftop gardens are well-documented, she told IRIN – they can decrease air pollution; absorb heat and act as insulators, reducing the energy needed for cooling or heating; and provide low-cost food and often also a source of revenue.

“But I can say to someone, ‘A rooftop garden will help the environment’, and they’ll say, ‘No, thank you – I just want to feed my family’. So I must identify and communicate benefits that are of interest to that person.”

Health

Jacky Ganry, of the French agricultural research organization CIRAD, said health should be the entry point for promoting urban and peri-urban horticulture.

“We know that non-communicable disease is a more alarming problem in urban areas than rural ones. An unbalanced diet is much more common in urban areas because of the price of fruits and vegetables, and the consumption of imported and processed products,” he told IRIN.

Participants said urban farming should be advocated as a strategy to combat malnutrition, disease and poverty, and urban infrastructure should favour the development of horticulture, for example, through land-use planning and better irrigation and drainage systems.

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SYRIA: Iraqi refugees face painful wait for artificial limbs

Photo: Rebecca Murray/IRIN

Dozens of refugees living with disabilities, mostly children, are waiting for treatment and artificial limbs

DAMASCUS, 13 December 2010 (IRIN) – Mohammed*, 38, whose right leg is severed above the knee, is one of many Iraqi refugees waiting for prosthetics at the Syrian branch of charity Terre des hommes (Tdh) orthopedic workshop.

Nine years ago, Mohammed, a Sunni Muslim, married his Shia wife. Both were schoolteachers and had three daughters.

But after the 2003 US invasion of Iraq triggered sectarian violence, Mohammed says he was threatened by the Mahdi Army for living in a Shia neighbourhood.

In 2006 the militia kidnapped him for ransom. They hung him by chains and tortured him. They also sliced up his right leg with a power drill, he says, and amputated the gangrened limb soon after.

Finally freed from captivity during a US military operation, Mohammed testified against his torturers, and then packed up his family and belongings to leave for Damascus.

Mohammed now waits for surgery to straighten his twisted right femur bone. Only then can he discard his cumbersome crutches and apply for a fitted prosthetic.

Barred from work and solely reliant on the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) for food rations and a monthly living stipend, his family waits to be resettled in a third country.

Mohammed says UNHCR recommended he and his introverted older daughter receive counselling for depression. He admits to taking out his anger by beating his wife and children, and that he has considered divorce.

In the stone courtyard of Tdh, Mohammed’s story is not uncommon among the mostly Iraqi patients, mauled by the violence of car bombs, unexploded ordnance, torture or chemical warfare.

“Our work is 50 percent technical and 50 percent psychological,” explains the orthopedic specialist, Khaled Zaynoun. “It’s important to create a special rapport with the patient.”

There are currently 153,000 Iraqis registered with UNHCR in Syria, out of a total of more than 290,000 since 2003. Off the books, an estimated 1.5 million Iraqis sought shelter in Syria during the height of the conflict.

Tdh is overwhelmed. Only a handful of prosthetic production facilities exists in Syria, and the charity is entirely reliant on private donors. It has created an estimated 480 prosthetics and has grants approved for another 35. Zaynoun says he has about 150 disabled refugees, mostly children, still waiting for treatment and the finances for it.

“Each case is quite unique, and we try to provide a tailor-made solution for each patient using materials largely imported from Europe,” Zaynoun says.

“High-end electronic prosthetic limbs can cost between 5,000 [US$6,608] Euros and E20,000 [$26,432],” he says. “The ones we make here cost about E2,000 [$2,643]. They are pretty basic but they allow people to walk and function.”

Birth defects

Four-year-old Hiba Sabah was born with a genetic defect: both legs are stunted above the knee. Her father Fadi says he and his wife Rana were caught in the middle of heavy fighting in their Baghdad neighbourhood after the US military invasion.

When the family finally fled to Syria in 2005, Rana was seven months pregnant with Hiba. The doctors in the Damascus hospital where she was born attributed her deformity to chemical warfare.

“Hiba is having a very hard time in school,” Fadi says. “During the breaks the kids go out to play but she cannot. She feels left out since she has to stay in the classroom.”

In October, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Iraqi government announced an ongoing investigation into birth defects across Iraq, after widespread media reports highlighted an alarming rate of deformities caused by radiation and chemical weapons in Fallujah.

At the Tdh centre, Hiba dons a pair of prosthetic legs custom-made for her, and awkwardly practises walking across the courtyard.

“In the beginning patients feel a lot of pain,” explains Zaynoun. “There is a long period of getting used to the prosthetic on a psychological level rather than a physical level, which is fairly straight forward. They need to learn to live with it, and then force other people to treat them fairly. It’s not easy.”

He acknowledges these expensive limbs come at a price for children like Hiba. “The problem is at her age, she keeps growing.”

“We rely on private donors but they are not predictable,” says her father. He adds that the family receives no additional assistance. “I regret starting this whole process, I don’t know how to replace them.”

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*Not his real name

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Having my say: By David ochwangi
It is finally here, the day Kenya’s Post Election Violence perpetrators are unmasked before the whole world at the ICC; to majority of Kenyans, this will be early Christmas for a nation desperately trying to turn a new leaf away from its checkered past. We all know what the imminent indictment by ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo is about, to hold those most responsible for the PEV to account and its only befitting that the wheels of justice abound during this festive season, after all the injustices for which we desperately seek remedy were committed during the Holidays. Speculation is coming to an end, questions as to whether or not the ICC will be fair and neutral will soon be answered; whether or not Ocampo will use his immense global power and prosecutorial discretion indiscriminately and balance the scales of justice without bias or favor will also be on the table just as will be the credibility of the court so much at stake at once
and yet this is requisite for Kenya to move forward.
If Ocampo bangles this thing and falls to the whims of international politics and pressures, Kenya’s odyssey into the abyss could only unravel. He has said it repeatedly himself, i.e. that he is not a political prosecutor but rather a criminal prosecutor; Kenyans by and large revere him and agree with him, especially the victims and their families; we also agree that bungled election results are NOT a license to kill, rape, maim and displace populations as some want us to believe, the question now remains, will Ocampo deliver? Will Ocampo succumb to political pressure and try to shield some people and sweep ills under the rug or will he actually use the same vigor he employed against El Bashir, Taylor, etc? Will he be fair and free of global political influence? Will Lady Justice remain neutral, impartial and truly blind? Will Ocampo exercise his prosecutorial discretion without fear or favor and preserve Kenya’s fragile peace albeit superficial as it is; because folks, short of full and complete justice- Kenya risks falling way off the cliff in a manner that will make 2007/2008 fiasco look like a cake walk at the park.
I don’t think there is any amount of anti-hate legislation that can ameliorate the negative ethnicity which, unfortunately, took root as a result of the PEV. We will be deluding ourselves to think Ocampo, God forbid, picks just a few individuals to make an example of to the world while those actually responsible get a pass, it will be an indelible error of judgment whose repercussions would be worse than any remedy they portend to provide the country to heal herself.  I think at this point we as a nation must come to terms with reality; that we canâ?Tt shy away from our own demons or wish them away or be intimidated to speak up out of fear of the powerful in society; we must call it for what it is and get things out of our chests and not allow them to fester and stew only to blow up at election time, this is it folks, the time is now and let us play our part to start over, a clean slate and cleanse our nation- once and for all.  Let’s get these issues out in the open NOW, not later, NOW! Speak up folks, do not be muzzled, JUSTICE for ALL or NONE at all!

PNU or ODM?
PNU
First off, let’s all agree nobody is above the law or exempt from justice on account of their position in society, the ICC has done a great job thus far in demonstrating to the world its reach by indicting Sudan’s El Bashir, Liberia’s Charles Taylor, The Balkans’ Milosevic, etc, etc. Kenya’s case presents unique challenges in the sense that, unlike in the above examples where these leaders are accused of systematically overseeing the decimation of populations within their borders,  President Kibaki was thrust in front of a one-off uprising and riots of which he was lawfully expected and constitutionally required to employ the instruments of power to suppress and restore law and order; therefore, Ocampo must convince the judges at the Hague that the state, at the direction of President Kibaki, intentionally acted so recklessly and so unconscionably as to exceed the state’s sovereign right to maintain peace and thereby meet the Roman threshold of crimes against humanity, it is a tough standard and for that reason, I think President Kibaki is clearly off Ocampo’s radar screen. Some have argued that meetings were held in State House during the mayhem ostensibly to plan the violence, really? Even granting this as true, without hard evidence it is hard to implicate the president, the president conducts his state functions at Harambee House and State House interchangeably, so it is not unusual much less incriminating that the President held meetings at State House.  Besides, a President who has just been declared a winner in a close election clearly has neither motive nor incentive to order the spilling of innocent blood. Why? What for? It does not make sense and therefore completely lacks merit. PERIOD, END OF STORY!
As a party, PNU was not predisposed to incite the public much less plan for violence. It won the election! Nonetheless, PNU clearly underestimated the uproar from ODM about the Presidential elections outcome and was quickly put on the defensive but miserably failed to logically counter the silliness of ODM accusations; if anything, PNU is clearly guilty of its own omissions and unpreparedness, an opening exploited by ODM and which only fuelled ODM’s onslaught and incendiary public incitement.  PNU is guilty of being declared the winner and failing to competently defend itself in the public square, a pathetic situation and yet not a crime per se.
Those in PNU on Ocampo’s crosshairs are accused of planning retaliatory reprisals against ODM aligned ethnic groups; even though one can argue that in the hit of the moment and without a clear way out as it was then, PNU had to take a defensive posture if only to mitigate the human losses of its supporters spread around the country and whereas there is a case to be made that the leadership was caught between a rock and a hard place; its actions invariably crossed the line in the eyes of the ICC and they must also answer for their actions; they had a motive to plan and defend their people through reprisals a NO, NO- legally. So, sorry- deal with it.
ODM:
Oh Jesus! This is the epitome of the inexplicable. Let me start with the PM, Raila Amolo Odinga; Odinga is a tenacious leader who unfortunately lacks tact and is a victim of his own missteps and impulsion, he has demonstrated over the years, time and time again, that he acts and says things without carefully thinking through first and in his position as a leader with such a national following, is dangerous. There are plenty of examples but for the purposes of the scope of the ICC, let me confine myself to 2007/208 PEV.
It is no secret that PM Odinga played a crucial role in Kibaki’s election in 2002 only to be betrayed shortly thereafter, be that as it may, so is politics. He was and still is a wounded man and when it became clear that the road to State House had narrowed considerably every passing day, he became ever more desperate and sought to whip up public emotions against the Kibaki administration way before the 2007 elections; it didn’t help matters that soon after taking office, Kibaki purged most of former President Moi’s staffers in government most of them Kalenjin, and replaced them with what appeared to be his tribesmen, the Kikuyus. Subsequently, Odinga saw an opportunity in this turn of events and aligned himself with his erstwhile nemesis of the Moi era (the doctrine of the enemy of my enemy is my friend fit perfectly); this would have been perfectly legit but for the fact that at that moment the foundation for ethnic cleansing in Kenya was born.
Fast forward to the 2007 elections;- Odinga knew the results were a cliff hanger after Kalonzo had peeled away a sizeable number of voters from the original ODM; he had managed to turn a considerable electorate against Kibaki along ethnic lines; for example, William Ruto, clearly led the charge in Rift Valley of instigating prejudice against Kisiis and Kikuyus and so when the election results were announced, this anti Kikuyu/Kisii arsenal at his disposal was activated at a moment’s notice, he used it to his maximum benefit personally but unfortunately to the detriment of the nation as a whole. PM Odinga alias Arap Mibei explicitly called for MASS ACTION to protest the â?ostolen election Odinga knew or should have known that such calls would result in violence but he did it anyway, repeatedly, and for that reason he must share the burden of the outcome of his calls. Paradoxically, the areas most affected by these protests were Rift Valley and Luo Nyanza, areas in which Odinga won handily almost to the last vote and therefore had the least reason or purpose to incite the public against fellow citizens (MADOADOA as they were referred to by ODM during the campaigns) unless of course to make a statement- it is premeditated!
There is clearly, at the very minimum, a case for implied malice on his part for which constructive criminal liability attached for the purposes of the ICC. He and his estranged bed fellow William Ruto were on the same side of the battlefield, they campaigned and planned together, and they conspired together, before, during and after the general elections and I don’t get it now why and how Ruto would bear a higher burden in this than his friend the PM! I just don’t get it. Raila was the man running for President, not Ruto; besides his relatives and friends, the PM is the single greatest beneficiary of MASS ACTION, he wields executive authority; the same cannot be said of the dead, the raped many of whom contracted deadly diseases, the maimed, the displaced, the IDPs, Ruto, the PEV suspects in jail/remand- none of these people has anywhere near the rewards brought about by the calls for MASS ACTION as PM Odinga and therefore, truth be told, in balance and taking into account the Sum Total of his actions, before, during and after, PM Odinga bears the greatest responsibility for the 2007/2008 PEV in Kenya. The Prime Minister’s office in Kenya is drenched in innocent blood and it is a great thing it is going away. Raila, Ruto, Balala, Kosgey, Kones, Laboso and many others are on record inflaming the public and when the dust settled, they strenuously defended the suspects, they said they didn’t do anything wrong because they were chasing their stolen cows, they tried to manipulate the ICC just as they did the Kenyan public; well guys – to those of you still around anyway, time is up, you can’t fool the world all the time. Time to pay is now.

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SWAZILAND: Army slowly winning the HIV/AIDS battle

Photo: IRIN

Fighting HIV/AIDS

MBABANE, 14 December 2010 (PlusNews) – Swaziland has the world’s highest estimated HIV prevalence, and its military is not exempt, although a wellness and prevention programme has seen a remarkable drop in AIDS deaths over the past two years, with a steady decline in new infections.

“We have seen [that] the infection rate has dropped dramatically – not suddenly, but declining gradually. We just tested 200 soldiers, and six were HIV-positive,” said Captain Bongani Msibi, Umbutfo Swaziland Defense Force (USDF) Monitoring and Evaluation Officer assigned to the HIV/AIDS Wellness Programme. The unit operates out of army headquarters in Bethany, 20km east of the capital, Mbabane.

“The composition of the army mirrors the society in many ways, and it may be time to see how other HIV programmes in the country are getting similar results, because our success shows the infection rate is going down,” Msibi added.

Army officials could not reveal exact figures for HIV-positive personnel or deaths from AIDS-related illnesses due to confidentiality issues, but an estimated 26 percent of Swazis between the ages of 15 to 49 are living with HIV.

Susceptibility

“A soldier’s life makes him or her vulnerable to AIDS. A soldier is far from home. There is loneliness and boredom. Sometimes it is tempting to use sex against the loneliness and boredom,” Lieutenant Colonel Thembeni Magongo, implementing officer in charge of the programme, told IRIN/PlusNews.

The army’s HIV/AIDS campaign was introduced almost a decade ago in 2000 and uses peer counsellors and special drama shows to encourage enlisted staff to be tested. The shows feature a trio of HIV positive soldiers who put a human face to the condition, which is highly stigmatized in Swazi society.

“These soldiers are our best tools. We call them our heroes, because they have saved so many lives,” Magongo noted.

Private Ntokozo Zwane went public with his HIV-positive status in 2008, and is one of the three enlisted men who testify on living with HIV at army events.

“I am not yet on medication, but I am keeping myself healthy by eating properly, avoiding stress, getting exercise and being faithful to my wife,” he said, looking like any other fit soldier in his 20s.

Officer Class 2 Samuel Hlope offers counselling, while his wife, who is HIV negative, counsels the families and wives of soldiers who test positive.

“She helps us a lot. She convinced us that with this sensitive matter women like to talk to women. More and more of our soldiers are women. And this is the way it is with the peer counsellors in the ranks. The top talks to the top, the middle talks to the middle and the bottom talks to the bottom,” said Magongo.

Once trained, peer counsellors seek out their fellow soldiers and officers, from training fields to sports grounds to local hangouts, driving home the message.

Addressing stigma

Lance Corporal Thembinkhosi Dlamini, second in command of the campaign, also credits the Simomondiya Drama Society for reducing the stigma attached to HIV.

“They are part of our shows and the soldiers respond well to their plays. They have done a lot to boost the popularity of condoms. Before, no soldier would wear a condom. Condoms were thought to be unmanly and unSwazi,” Dlamini said.

This past year, the army distributed 1.2 million condoms, donated by the American NGO AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

Antiretroviral drugs are available through the army’s treatment programme.

John Kunene, principal secretary for the army, was transferred from the Ministry of Health, where he was also principal secretary, at the height of HIV infections among army personnel five years ago. “I often asked myself why I was brought to the army when I have no military background,” he told IRIN/PlusNews.

“A lot of soul searching and praying accompanied my transfer, and I felt I was placed here to help the army in this crisis. We are making headway,” he said.

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