Month: September 2006

At this mid-point of our series, we intend to tie up the loose ends of our discourse on T. Peter Omari’s Kwame Nkrumah: The Anatomy of an African Dictator (1970), and Bob Fitch and Mary […]

Berlin 13 September, 2006— President Horst Köhler today received the credentials of four ambassadaors accredited to Germany at a ceremony at the Castle Bellevue in Berlin. They are His Excellency Mr Dario Ernesto Chiru Ochoa, […]

Johannesburg, 8 September, 2006— It will take another few months, but then Botswana’s ’First People’, the San, will know whether they have won their marathon legal battle to remain on their traditional lands in the […]

Bukavu, 8 September, 2006— Sexual violence must end and its perpetrators be punished, Jan Egeland, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, said while visiting a hospital for rape survivors in the eastern Democratic Republic of […]

Muzzaffarabad, 8 September, 2006— Traditional coping systems have been stretched to breaking point following last year’s massive earthquake in northern Pakistan and women are bearing the brunt. Nearly 75,000 people died in the October quake […]

Abidjan, 7 September, 2006— President Laurent Gbagbo has accepted the unprecedented resignation of Cote d’Ivoire’s cabinet as anger mounts over the dumping of toxic waste in the main city, Abidjan, that made hundreds ill. Charles […]

Dar es Salaam, 7 September, 2006— The government of Burundi signed a cease-fire with the country’s last remaining rebel group on Thursday, marking a milestone in the tiny nation’s emergence from a 13 year civil […]

Dakar, 7 September, 2006— So far this year, 20,000 illegal migrants have arrived in the Spanish Canary Islands from the West African coast in the hopes of eventually reaching mainland Spain. The Spanish Red Cross […]