Month: September 2006

Dakar, 6 September, 2006— A record number of illegal migrants reached the shores of the Spanish Canary Islands last weekend. Authorities reported that between Saturday and Sunday, 1,400 migrants, mainly from West Africa, arrived in […]

Dakar, 6 September, 2006— The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released its State of the Population Report 2006 on Wednesday, highlighting the number of youths migrating across borders and the need for both departing and […]

Kabul, 6 September, 2006— Thousands of Afghan families have been displaced by fierce clashes between NATO and Taliban fighters in the southern province of Kandahar, officials said on Wednesday. Mohammad Nabi Safai, head of Kandahar’s […]

Lusaka, 6 September, 2006— Maria Banda, just five years old, and her grandmother, Aineli, spend every day breaking stones into gravel in quarries a few kilometres from the heart of Zambia’s capital, Lusaka. Hundreds of […]

Unyama, 6 September, 2006— Consolata Auma talks with difficulty because of her mutilated mouth and fights back tears when she recounts her ordeal at the hands of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels. With her […]

Yamoussoukro, 6 September, 2006— A mini-summit of Cote d’Ivoire’s main political leaders ended in disagreement after participants failed to reach consensus on preparations for delayed elections aimed at restoring peace in the divided country. “The […]

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. […]