Month: September 2006

Bujumbura, 5 September, 2006— Burundi’s second vice president, Alice Nzomukunda, resigned on Tuesday in protest at interference by the chairman of the ruling party. “The government’s hands are tied by [the chairman] Hussein Radjabu,” Nzomukunda […]

Ras Al-Ain, 5 September, 2006— Now that war is over, farmers are returning to their land in southern Lebanon only to find their crops destroyed and their livelihoods ruined while unexploded bombs are hampering recovery. […]

Lagos, 5 September, 2006— Canoes glide through the black, stinking water as children run along an overhead maze of precarious walkways through Makoko, a growing slum on stilts in Nigeria’s sprawling commercial capital, Lagos. Many […]

Guleriya, 5 September, 2006— Displaced people in the remote regions of western Nepal say urgently needed medical help and food aid is not reaching them, as flooding and landslides continue to make their position more […]

EL FASHER, 5 September, 2006— The Sudanese government has asked the African Union (AU) to decide within a week, whether it will keep its troops in Sudan’s Darfur region, or leave the country. The mandate […]

Harare, 5 September, 2006— In a bid to win back the support of the international community, Zimbabwe’s government has relented on its land policy and is to remove settlers from occupied farms owned by foreign […]

Nairobi, 5 September, 2006— Somalia’s transitional government on Tuesday hailed an agreement to unify armed groups allied to it with forces loyal to the country’s increasingly influential Islamic courts as an important first step towards […]