Month: October 2005

Islamabad, 17 October, 2005— Dire water and sanitation conditions have left Pakistan’s quake-stricken north facing major outbreaks of disease. “There is still time to avert a major crisis but time is running out,” Bill Fellows, […]

Washington, 17 October, 2005— Hosting his fifth Istar dinner October 17 at the White House, President Bush spoke of the spirit and compassion of Islam and thanked the Muslims nations that have joined the coalition […]

Baghdad, 16 October, 2005— Iraqis voted in large numbers in relatively peaceful conditions on a new constitution designed to usher in an era of peace and democracy. Officials of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq […]

This article is a response to statements contained in Dr Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe’s article on ‘The Life And Times Of J. J. Rawlings – Part 5’. In his article Dr. Ahoofe makes many debatable claims, but […]

In the wake of my ongoing series of essays titled “The Life and Times of JJ Rawlings,” quite a remarkable number of Mr. Rawlings’ apologists impudently and variously styling themselves as “Trokosi Nationalists,” “Trokosi Theorists” […]

Khartoum, 15 October, 2005— Many of the four million internally displaced persons (IDPs) who fled civil war in southern Sudan are willing to return their home areas but instability in the region may expose them […]

Port Harcourt, 15 October, 2005— A newspaper publisher in Nigeria was arrested and detained after his publication carried an article alleging a state governor was involved in money laundering. Owei Kobina Sikpi of the Weekly […]

Bissau, 15 October, 2005— Guinea-Bissau has become West Africa’s main transit point for drugs on their way from South America to Europe, according to the country’s top drug enforcement official. And while chief inspector Joao […]