Year: 2006

Abu Dhabi, 24 December, 2006— From a distance, a small boy-like shape can be seen bobbing up and down frantically on the back of a camel . On closer inspection, that strange object is, in […]

Beirut, 24 December, 2006— The lack of centralised, detailed development-related data in Lebanon has hampered the efficiency of emergency and rehabilitation efforts, humanitarian experts have said. “Information has been poorly coordinated, and although you can […]

“Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains,” so wrote Jean Jacques Rousseau in The Social Contract. By that Rousseau meant that freedom has limits, and for any human institution to survive, it […]

By the time this article gets posted (or published), a rejoinder to a previous analytical piece that I did on National Democratic Congress presidential aspirants Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah and Professor John Evans Atta Mills (Accra […]

Abidjan, 20 December, 2006— In a nationally televised address, Gbagbo proposed dismantling the buffer zone that divides the rebel-held north from the government-run south. It would include direct talks with his adversaries, establishing a new […]

Beirut, 20 December, 2006— Despite one man being killed and two injured from an explosion on Tuesday in the southern Lebanese village of Marjayoun, mine clearance specialists say that the incidence of cluster bomb casualties […]

Washington, 20 December, 2006— Delegates from more than 72 countries are calling on all nations to report influenza cases immediately and share epidemiological data and samples. The reporting and data sharing provisions are in a […]

Washington, 20 December, 2006— Despite the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC’s) recent successful presidential elections, the international community must continue to help the nation improve its democratic institutions, security and economy, specialists on the […]