Month: December 2006

Washington, 27 December, 2006— Researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed an experimental vaccine that theoretically could eliminate malaria from entire regions by killing the malaria parasite in an area’s mosquitoes, […]

Washington, 27 December, 2006— Across the United States, messages of sympathy and fond remembrance followed the death of Gerald Ford, the nation’s 38th president. Ford died in California December 26 at the age of 93. […]

Washington, 27 December, 2006— The spokesman for Multi-National Force (MNF) – Iraq says 2007 will be a year of transition in which the Iraqi government will assume increasing responsibility for security operations. “[T]he one significant […]

Nairobi, 27 December, 2006— Thousands of people have gone into hiding in hills near the North Darfur village of Abu Sakin after Arab militias continued their destructive rampage across parts of the western Sudanese region, […]

Dar es Salaam, 27 December, 2006— Some 650 flood-affected Tanzanians are in need of urgent aid, officials said on Wednesday. The victims have been cut off from the rest of the country after floods destroyed […]

Johannesburg, 27 December, 2006— Madagascar has called for international aid to help stem a nutritional emergency that has left thousands of children malnourished in the vulnerable south. “Madagascar has sent a message, through the president […]

Ouagadougou, 27 December, 2006— Clashes last week between the military and police in Burkina Faso’s capital underlined the fragile state of democracy in that country, local analysts warn. In attacks initially written off as a […]

Peshawar, 27 December, 2006— he Pakistani government’s plan to lay landmines and build a fence along its border with Afghanistan has been condemned by humanitarian groups. It follows criticism from Kabul and the US that […]