Month: February 2006

Cairo, 5 February, 2006— Indignation is growing over the circumstances under which a passenger ship sank in the Red Sea last week. Critics of the government have questioned the ship’s seaworthiness, the slow pace of […]

Lusaka, 3 February, 2006— In what has been described as a policy u-turn, Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa has declared that this year’s general election will be held under the current constitution rather than a new […]

Muzaffarabad, 3 February, 2006— Sajad Ahmad, 12, found himself an only child after his brother was killed in the earthquake that devastated northern Pakistan last October. With no shoes to protect him from the freezing […]

Kinshasa, 3 February, 2006— At least 37,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) are without humanitarian relief because of continued attacks by military insurgents in North Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), officials said. […]

Khaotoum, 3 February, 2006— The African Union (AU) has strongly condemned the recent escalation of attacks by rebels and Arab Janjawid militia in the western Sudanese Darfur region and has demanded that those perpetrating the […]

Accra, 31 January, 2006— Police and soldiers are maintaining a dusk to dawn curfew for a fourth week in the northern Ghanaian town of Bimbilla after a long running chieftaincy dispute erupted in violence, said […]

Nairobi, 31 January, 2006— Preparations for a meeting of Somalia’s interim parliament in Baidoa have begun, following a decision by the president and the speaker to convene the house inside Somalia for the first time […]

Baghdad, 31 January, 2006— The Ministry of Health has announced that a 15-year-old girl who died on 17 January in the northern town of Raniya, close to Sulaimaniyah, was a victim of the H5N1 strain […]