Month: November 2006

Accra, 16 November, 2006— The third floor of the maternity block of Korle Bu Hospital is eerily quiet except for an occasional drip from a broken pipe. One woman ready to give birth is propped […]

Baghdad, 19 November, 2006— With insurgency and sectarian violence continuing to escalate in beleaguered Iraq, children are some of the most vulnerable. Facing limited healthcare and education as well as witnessing death and destruction on […]

Cairo, 19 November, 2006— A culture where the rights of children, especially those living rough and homeless, are intrinsically protected has yet to emerge in Egypt, according to child experts and testimonies of children themselves. […]

A November 14, 2006, editorial which appeared in the Ghanaian Statesman, titled “More Policy, Less Politics, Please!” wisely cautions the 2008 presidential aspirants of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to privilege the commonwealth or […]

I don’t know who ever introduced the rather bizarre verbal expression of “rubbish,” as in to “rubbish the dignity of another,” into our mainstream Ghanaian lexicon, though one can readily guess with near-certainty that this […]

Dakar, 15 November, 2006— Piles of cashew nuts painstakingly picked by Guinea-Bissauan farmers to sell for cash are going unsold, and the poorest are being hardest hit as the bottom falls out of the market […]

Mbabane, 15 November, 2006— A year after establishing a specialised unit to combat domestic violence and child abuse, Swaziland is claiming to have reduced crimes against children by a third. At the launch of the […]

Kinshasa, 15 November, 2006— Foreign envoys monitoring the elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Wednesday appealed for calm while armed forces patrolled the streets of the capital, Kinshasa, amid rising tension between […]