Month: September 2006

Bujumbura, 20 September, 2006— Residents of two Burundian provinces that are strongholds of the Forces nationales de libération (FNL) rebel group, which has agreed a ceasefire with the government, have expressed concern over continued ‘taxation’ […]

Nairobi, 20 September, 2006— Security has been tightened in Somalia’s southwestern town of Baidoa, the seat of the transitional government, two days after an assassination attempt on President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, but sources said the […]

ZIGUINCHOR, 20 September, 2006— Armed rebels looted a convoy of cars on Tuesday morning near the village of Kaparan in the restive Casamance region of southern Senegal, feeding local fears that a new cycle of […]

Arusha, Tanzania, 20 September, 2006— The United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on Wednesday acquitted a former Rwandan minister of education of genocide charges. A panel of judges ruled that the prosecution had failed […]

Dakar, 20 September, 2006— Saudi Arabia has donated US $10 million to the World Food Programme to help fight hunger in eight West African countries and boost school feeding programmes. “This assistance to the WFP, […]

Dar es Salaam, 20 September, 2006— Data collected by the Tanzania Media Women Association (TAMWA) shows a strong correlation between HIV/AIDS, early school exit, teenage marriage and pregnancy. Tanzanian law allows girls aged as young […]

Koidu, 20 September, 2006— Isata Kamara never imagined herself as a gold miner in Koidu, Sierra Leone’s diamondiferous eastern province. Before the civil war erupted in 1991, the tall, elegant 60-year-old tended fields to support […]

New York, 20 September, 2006— The African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission in Sudan will be extended until December 31, with regional and United Nations support, Burkina Faso’s President and current AU President, Blaise Comparoré, announced […]