Year: 2007

Basra, 12 November, 2007— Basra province, 550km south of Baghdad, can no longer accommodate Iraqi families fleeing insecurity, according to local officials. “We cannot cope with any more families seeking refuge in our province, whatever […]

Nairobi, 12 November, 2007— Local elders and civil society leaders have urged the international community to help stop the carnage in Mogadishu as heavy fighting in the Somali capital continued, leaving hospitals overwhelmed and many […]

Nairobi, 12 November, 2007— Can the entrepreneurial zeal, innovation and super-size budgets of private foundations succeed where a sclerotic and undisciplined international aid industry has failed? Or is the “New Philanthropy” simply executive arrogance, vanity […]

Washington, 12 November, 2007— Immigrants make up more than 12 percent – about 35 million people – of America’s population, but the US federal government has almost no idea of how HIV is affecting them, […]

Dhaka, 13 November, 2007— Borhanuddin Mia, a casual labourer in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, earns just US$2 a day, but in the evening always manages to meet his fellow users at a small park opposite […]

Mr. Kwamena Bartels’ announcement in Parliament that approximately ¢ 16 million [old cedis, I presume] (about $ 1, 707 American Dollars) will be spent on each prisoner during the current fiscal year, is quite heartening, […]

Accra, 7 November, 2007— The Okyehene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin II, on Tuesday condemned the gross unfairness in the distribution of the national cake, saying out of 48,000 settlements in the country only 12,000 had […]

Accra, 6 November, 2007— Tension is high in Anloga District in Ghana’s Volta Region after a man died in police custody — the fifth person to die since 1 November when violence linked to a […]