Month: September 2006

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 […]

Al Malkiyye, 7 September, 2006— Mine-clearing agencies are removing thousands of unexploded bombs in Lebanon, particularly in the south of the country. Thousands of people displaced during the recent conflict between Israel and mostly Lebanese […]

Kankonona, 7 September, 2006— A representative of thousands of people displaced by fighting in the southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Katanga Province told Jan Egeland, the visiting United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency […]

Nairobi, 7 September, 2006— The United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) has protested to the Eritrean authorities over the expulsion of five UN staff on allegations of spying, a spokesperson said on Thursday. […]

The call by Ghana’s Minister of Education, Science and Sports for all “model” Senior Secondary Schools currently under construction to be “science-biased” must be taken with a lot of caution (Modernghana.com 8/25/06). This is because […]