Month: September 2006

Kabul, 18 September, 2006— Over 7 million Afghan children aged under five will be vaccinated against the polio virus during a three-day joint campaign launched on Sunday by the Afghan health ministry and the United […]

Nairobi, 18 September, 2006— At least six people were killed and up to 10 wounded in an explosion on Monday as the president of Somali’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) was leaving the building housing the […]

Nairobi, 18 September, 2006— The Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), which controls the Somali capital, Mogadishu, has arrested three men in connection with the killing on Sunday of an Italian nun working at a hospital […]

Kampala, 18 September, 2006— Joseph Kony, leader of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, joined his deputy, Vincent Otti, at the Ri-Kwangba Camp, on Monday, in a boost for the Ugandan peace process. Martin Ojul, the […]

Ndjamena, 13 September, 2006— Government military planes, vehicles and troops were flooding in and out of the military hub Abeche in eastern Chad on Wednesday following fighting with rebels in the region earlier this week. […]

Johannesburg, 13 September, 2006— Health officials in South Africa are fighting to contain the spread of a deadly, drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis (TB) after an HIV-positive woman with the disease refused treatment and walked out […]

Rajhena, 13 September, 2006— Baisali Buda and her four young children have spent the last four years in poverty as internally displaced people (IDPs) in Nepal’s remote western disctricts. Life has been so hard that […]

Nairobi, 13 September, 2006— Authorities in Somalia’s self-declared autonomous region of Puntland are cracking down on migrants waiting to be smuggled into Yemen and the Gulf states, Puntland’s deputy police chief said on Wednesday. “We […]