Month: September 2006

Harare, 28 September, 2006— Zimbabwe’s parliamentary opposition party are objecting to plans to delay the scheduled 2008 presidential elections by two years and hold them in concert with the 2010 parliamentary elections. Spokesman for the […]

Paoua, 28 September, 2006— ome of the tens of thousands of people who had been living in the bush in northwest Central African Republic (CAR) without proper shelter since fighting flared up in January are […]

Islamabad, 28 September, 2006— The last operational year of the UN assisted repatriation programme for Afghan refugees living in Pakistan is approaching its end with a significantly slower pace of returnees. At the end of […]

Gaza City, 28 September, 2006— A survey by a West Bank research company has revealed that the level of “severe depression” in the population of the Palestinian territory had increased by 21 percent over the […]

Johannesburg, 28 September, 2006— The World Health Organisation (WHO) will convene a “global task force” in Geneva in October to thrash out a battle plan against extremely drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), a deadly, drug-resistant disease […]

Gaza City, 28 September, 2006— An ongoing economic boycott and intermittent border closures have created humanitarian problems for Gaza’s residents, including a deteriorating agricultural sector, the United Nations and the Palestinian Authority (PA) said. The […]

Mbabane, 27 September, 2006— The unavailability of pharmaceutical drugs is forcing Swazis to rely on traditional medicines to alleviate their ailments. The government, which created the shortages by its failure to issue drug tenders to […]

Calabar, 27 September, 2006— Thousands of people who fled the disputed Bakassi Peninsula after a handover over from Nigeria to Cameroon last month remain displaced in Nigeria, while people who stayed behind allege Cameroonian security […]