Month: July 2009

I was not the least bit unamused when the legendary Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., was recently shown on television handcuffed by the Cambridge, Massachusetts, police. It was actually the alleged crime for […]

Yaounde, 29 July, 2009— Ousmanou, 13, has lived in the streets of Cameroon’s political capital Yaoundé for four months. He and his brother used to live with their grandmother in the northern city of Maroua […]

Koidu, 29 July, 2009— As the Sierra Leone government, donors, mining companies and union members discuss how to reform industrial mining, analysts say they are overlooking the need for change in the informal or “artisanal” […]

Ijara, 29 July, 2009— A prolonged drought is causing large-scale livestock deaths, increasing the vulnerability of residents living in the mid-western Gabiley region of Somalia’s self-declared republic of Somaliland, local officials say. “We have not […]

London, 22 July, 2009— We were afraid that something bad might have happened to him, that he might have been tortured. We called the prison but they would respond: “Be patient, the investigation is not […]

London, 20 July, 2009— A “Day of Action” for the people of Gambia will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday in 12 different locations around the world including West Africa, US, UK and EU. The […]

New York, 21 July, 2009— Almost 300,000 Pakistanis – out of some 2 million uprooted by clashes in the country’s northwest – have returned home, the top United Nations humanitarian official said today, hailing the […]

New York, 21 July, 2009— A widespread lack of basic elements of human security, from access to clean water and freedom from hunger to democracy and a robust rule of law, is denying citizens of […]