Month: March 2006

Monrovia, 27 March, 2006— President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf said on Monday that her government is not seeking her predecessor Charles Taylor’s extradition to Liberia as it is the UN-backed Special Court in Sierra Leone that has […]

Kathmandu, 27 March, 2006— Over 2,000 of the country’s community-managed schools, regarded by education experts as the best model for quality schooling in rural areas, are coming under immense political pressure both from the Maoists […]

Johannesburg, 27 March, 2006— Undeterred by the hefty duty imposed on a consignment of sanitary pads donated to Zimbabwean women hit by rocketing prices, the country’s labour federation plans to import them regularly. “We are […]

Cairo, 27 March, 2006— Egypt’s fifth suspected human case of avian influenza is under recovery and in stable condition, according to officials at the Ministry of Health. “She’s out of danger and her health condition […]

Warri, 27 March, 2006— Armed militants in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta on Monday freed three remaining foreign hostages held captive for five weeks, but vowed to continue attacks on oil installations. The hostages, two Americans […]

Baghdad, 27 March, 2006— The Ministry of Human Rights has called for the protection of civilians during ongoing offensives by US and Iraqi forces and an end to sectarian fighting after 48 hours of intense […]

Nairobi, 27 March, 2006— The Somali capital of Mogadishu was calm on Monday as a ceasefire that came into effect after four days of heavy militia fighting continued to hold, but hundreds of families who […]

Unlike Alhaji Harruna-Attah, managing-editor of the Accra Daily Mail, I don’t, in the least, feel like bursting into tears when I read such remonstrative no-brainers as the following recent Ghana News Agency (GNA) report that […]