Month: December 2006

Dakar, 4 December, 2006— About 150 communities in Guinea on Sunday collectively abandoned the practice of female genital cutting – a landmark declaration in a country where more than 97 percent of women undergo the […]

Monrovia, 4 December, 2006— “It was a shock for me when I was raped,” the lithe 15-year-old girl said with tears running down her face. “The man called and asked me to help him wash […]

Harare, 4 December, 2006— As the International Monetary Fund (IMF) kicks of its assessment mission in Zimbabwe this week, the country’s courts sent two officials of a well-known bakery to prison for breaking the price […]

Azzun Atma, 4 December, 2006— srael began building a 703 km-long barrier through the West Bank in the occupied Palestinian territories in 2002. Much of it is an electric fence but in heavily populated areas […]

Washington, 4 December, 2006— President Bush met with Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the head of Iraq’s largest Shiite party, December 4 to discuss the importance of reconciliation between Iraq’s ethnic and sectarian groups. “Part of unifying […]

Washinton, 4 December, 2006— President Bush has accepted “with deep regret” the resignation of U.S. Representative to the United Nations John Bolton. In a statement released by the White House December 4, the president credited […]

Washington, 3 December, 2006— The United States and the nations of Africa are linked by the need to enhance their individual and collective energy security, U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman says. In a keynote […]

Washington, 1 December, 2006— The United States is looking for the U.N. Security Council to move ahead with a sanctions resolution on Iran over its nuclear program even if it means acting without unanimous approval […]