Month: July 2006

Lilongwe, 21 July, 2006— Members of Parliament (MPs) meeting in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, to discuss the 2006/07 budget have called for the education system to be overhauled, with the abolition of community day secondary schools […]

Addis Ababa, 21 July, 2006— The Ethiopian government is to increase efforts to prevent and treat blindness, which afflicts a large number of people across the country, said Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. Meles was speaking […]

Nairobi, 20 July, 2006— Tensions are rising in the southern Somali town of Baidao where the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) is based, amid fears that the Islamists who control the capital, Mogadishu, could attack the […]

Beirut, 23 July, 2006— Inaam Haidar and her twin children, Hadi and Hiba, aged eight, were trapped in a village south of Beirut for 10 days after the Israeli attacks on Lebanon started on 12 […]

Beirut, 23 July, 2006— Jan Egeland, the UN’s Emergency Relief Coordinator, is in Lebanon pushing for a safe humanitarian corridor for aid workers to deliver urgently needed supplies. However, so far Israel is reported to […]

Beirut, 22 July, 2006— Roughly 22,000 refugees and asylum seekers are stranded in Lebanon – mainly from Iraq, Sudan and Somalia – and UN refugee agency, UNHCR, is increasingly concerned for their safety. “There has […]

Beirut, 22 July, 2006— “May I have some more water?” asked Samah Al-Saad as she handed over a bucket to her neighbour, Souad Hammood, in Al-Bashoura, a crowded mainly Shi’ite area of the Lebanese capital, […]

Much negative capital has been made by many a fanatical Nkrumacrat of Ali Mazrui’s famous mini-essay titled “Nkrumah: The Leninist Czar” (Transition 26 [1966]: 8-17), which was published in the wake of the landmark overthrow […]