Month: November 2005

Purrak, 25 November, 2005— A villager in a metal basket dangles above the Jhelum River as two boys tug at pulley ropes, edging him towards the riverbank. The basket wobbles precariously above the rocks and […]

Asmara, 25 November, 2005— The Eritrean government has sharply criticised the latest UN Security Council resolution on the border dispute between Eritrea and Ethiopia, describing it as “deplorable” and “lopsided”. “The Security Council has adopted […]

Perhaps sometime between midnight of November 13 and early November 14, 2005, a murder-suicide occurred in a well-known upwardly-mobile cooperative apartment complex in the New York City borough of The Bronx. We know this much […]

Mbabane, 24 November, 2005— After months of controversy, the Swazi government has turned down a church group’s offer to build an “orphan city” in exchange for the country’s two largest game parks and other property. […]

Brussels, 24 November, 2005— Belgian Development Cooperation Minister Armand de Decker is seeking support from his counterparts in the European Union for his proposal to create peacekeeping training centres in Africa, in partnership with the […]

Nairobi, 24 November, 2005— Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki sacked his entire cabinet on Wednesday, two days after the draft constitution he strongly supported was rejected in a national referendum. The debate over the new charter […]

Cairo, 24 November, 2005— Human rights groups have questioned the way the Egyptian government is handling operations to capture suspected terrorists following a shootout on Sunday in the North Sinai governorate on Egypt’s Mediterranean coastline. […]

Kampala, 24 November, 2005— Ugandan authorities have tightened security and banned public demonstrations in support of detained opposition leader Kizza Besigye who is expected to face treason and rape charges in court on Thursday. The […]