Month: October 2006

Kinshasa, 3 October, 2006— Congolese police, with the United Nations and European Union security forces, began special joint patrols on Monday aimed at enforcing a ban on weapons in Kinshasa during the election period, a […]

Gusau, 3 October, 2006— Up to 1,000 people displaced by floodwater from a collapsed damn in Nigeria’s northwestern Zamfara state huddled together on Tuesday waiting for word of dozens of their missing relatives. “I haven’t […]

Baghdad, 3 October, 2006— Abdul-Jabar Muhsin, 34, is struggling to get his life back to normal in southern Iraq’s once-lush marshlands, which were devastated by former president Saddam Hussein in the early 1990s. “It is […]

Owiny Ki-Bul, 3 October, 2006— A fact-finding team consisting of parties to talks between the Ugandan government and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) left one of the assembly points, Owiny Ki-Bul, southern Sudan, without establishing […]

Khartoum, 3 October, 2006— Clashes between fighters loyal to the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) and Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) have left at least 11 civilians dead in Gereida town, South Darfur State in western […]

Balakot, 3 October, 2006— Some 20,000 people in the town of Balakot, which was badly devastated in last October’s 7.6 magnitude earthquake, have been facing a severe shortage of clean water for the last month, […]

I once believed that capital was another word for money, the accumulated wealth of a country or its people. Surely, I thought, wealth is determined by the money or property in one’s possession. Then I […]

Lagos, 29 September, 2006— A court in the southern Nigerian city of Benin has jailed a 31-year-old father of five for human trafficking in what human rights activists consider a significant victory against a growing […]