Month: February 2006

I was not going to dignify a recent anti-Danquah report which was sourced to the Palaver newspaper and published by Ghanaweb.com on February 20, 2006, but it is extremely imperative that the records are set […]

Monrovia, 20 February, 2006— During the final months of the civil war, when rebel fighters bombarded the capital Monrovia, Liberia’s central prison took mortar hits and prisoners scrambled over the rubble to freedom. Over two […]

Lahore, 20 February, 2006— Huddled in a small group, three Christian men pore over the newspapers early in the morning in the congested Mozang area of Lahore. All around, vendors serve up thick, milky tea, […]

Johannesburg, 20 February, 2006— As gays and lesbians become more visible in South African townships, they are increasingly becoming targets of homophobia, according to rights activists. The organisations were reacting to reports at the weekend […]

Nairobi, 20 February, 2006— At least 15 people have been killed and hundreds of families displaced in fighting that started on Saturday between rival militias in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, witnesses said. The violence erupted […]

Abuja, 20 February, 2006— At least 17 people, including a Catholic priest, were killed and 30 churches burned in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri when Muslims protesting cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad turned on […]

Baghdad, 20 February, 2006— An NGO established this year to assist former prison detainees who have suffered abuses in prison has received an overwhelming initial response. “This organisation has already received nearly 125 reports of […]

Nairobi, 21 February, 2006— A donor conference for the Central African Republic (CAR) began on Monday in the Cameroonian capital, Yaounde, organised by the United Nations. According to a statement issued on Friday in New […]