Month: February 2006

Arusha, 6 February, 2006– An appeal against the acquittal of a former Rwandan minister by a lower court of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) began on Monday before its Appeals Chamber. […]

Sana, 6 February, 2006— Health teams in eastern Yemen continued work on Monday to halt the spread of dysentery, from which several children have already died, according to local health officials. The prime symptom of […]

Nairobi, 6 February, 2006— An estimated 11 million people in East Africa and the Horn of Africa continue to face critical food shortages brought on by drought and non-natural factors, the International Federation of the […]

Washington, 6 February, 2006— President Bush has requested $3 billion in the fiscal year starting October 1 (fiscal year 2007) for the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA), his foreign aid program aimed at rewarding countries that […]

New York, 7 February, 2006— The transition from the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) to a U.N. peacekeeping force in Darfur is a complicated and logistically difficult mission, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations […]

Baghdad, 5 February, 2006— Living in the shadow of religious pressure and social discrimination, medical student Ahmed Fatah says there’s no way he could ever tell anyone about his sexuality. “I devote most of my […]

Baghdad, 5 February, 2006— Continuous rainfall over the past three days in the capital, Baghdad, as well as in Tikrit and Mosul in northern Iraq, has forced 600 people out of their homes, according to […]

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 […]