Month: January 2006

On Thursday, January 12, 2006, American secretary-of-state Dr. Condoleezza Rice called on the United Nations’ Security Council to promptly move by way of the imposition of comprehensive sanctions against Iran, for the latter’s purportedly brazen […]

Zanzibar, Stone Town, 11 January, 2006— Authorities in Tanzania’s semiautonomous island of Zanzibar have prohibited indefinitely the unnecessary use of water, in a move to curb an acute scarcity. “We are now facing a shortage […]

Johannesburg, 10 January, 2006— On the back of record oil prices, Africa’s second largest producer, Angola, has one of the continent’s fastest growing economies while its people remain among the poorest. After 27 years of […]

Dakar, 10 January, 2006— Sudan joined Chad on Tuesday in offering to open talks to defuse mounting tension along their joint border, but the two sides still appeared far apart. At the weekend, Chad said […]

Ankara, 10 January, 2006— With all 14 confirmed avian flu cases in Turkey contracted from infected birds, containing the outbreaks of the highly contagious infection among fowl became the national priority on Tuesday. “All of […]

Nairobi, 10 January, 2006— South Sudan’s largest militia group has announced that it will join the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), formerly a rebel group and now a partner in Sudan’s national unity government. Under […]

Addis Ababa, 10 January, 2006— An estimated 11 million people in the Horn of Africa are “on the brink of starvation” following a severe drought that has already caused some deaths, the United Nations Food […]

Qualitative questions regarding the extent of one’s happiness or sadness, for that matter, are quite difficult to objectively determine, particularly when the litmus test for such moral and empirical judgments are determined by sociological surveys. […]