Month: January 2006

Kinshasa, 23 January, 2006— An armed, unidentified group killed eight peacekeepers from Guatemala and injured five others on Monday, during an ambush in Garamba National Park, in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo […]

Kampala, 23 January, 2006— At least 11 people in northeastern Uganda have died from suspected meningitis after a specimen taken from one patient tested positive for the disease, health officials said on Monday. “A single […]

Sulaimaniyah, 23 January, 2006— Emergency measures are being taken in northern Iraq to prevent bird flu, after a scare last week in which a young girl died after a fifteen-day illness. Subsequent tests to determine […]

Manhattan, Kansas, 23 January, 2006— President Bush said that as part of U.S. efforts to train Iraqi police, the recruits will receive training in human rights and ethics in an effort to prevent abusive behavior. […]

Washington, 23 January, 2006— Ambassador John Danilovich, chief executive officer (CEO) of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), will travel to Morocco and Benin January 24-31. The trip, according to a January 23 MCC announcement, will […]

Lubumbashi, 23 January, 2006— Relief workers say that fighting between the Congolese army and Mayi-Mayi militias in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Katanga Province has spread to a new area south of the town of […]

I have followed the alleged hoax perpetrated against members of the Ghanaian public by Palaver newspaper managing-editor Mr. Jojo Bruce-Quansah with avidity. Indeed, the very attempt to perpetrate the hoax itself was of far less […]

I followed the recent theatrical antics of Ghana’s professionally abortive, career presidential candidate with amused contempt. Now, having been decked to the floor twice at the polls and morbidly fearing another certain coup de grace […]