Month: February 2006

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 […]

Durham, North Carolina, 31 January, 2006— When HIV screening tests are offered at no cost, more people are tested, and when more people are aware of their HIV status, prevention efforts are enhanced, new research […]

Washington, 31 January, 2006— President Bush urged the United States to engage the international community as a means of building prosperity, security, freedom and hope around the world in his State of the Union address […]