Month: January 2008

Bujumbura, 14 January, 2008— About 1,400 families (8,400 people) displaced in Musigati commune in the northwestern province of Bubanza, following fighting between government forces and the Forces Nationales de Libération (FNL), desperately need help, according […]

Nairobi, 14 January, 2008— Most of the people who fled political violence in Kenya’s Rift Valley Province, the country’s breadbasket, are farmers and their displacement during harvest season is expected to undermine national food security, […]

Ouagadougou, 14 January, 2008— The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched a multi-million dollar fund for import-dependent poor countries to help adapt their farming industries quickly to cope with galloping global food prices. […]

Harare, 14 January, 2008— Residents of the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, and Chitungwiza, a dormitory town 35km to the southeast, are to be without water for seven days because of persistent power cuts that have affected […]

Kabul, 14 January, 2008— Soaring staple food prices have pushed 1.3 million previously food-secure people in rural Afghanistan into high risk food-insecurity, according to the latest assessment by the UN World Food Programme (WFP). In […]

I had originally intended this personal narrative of the historical culture of St. Peter’s Secondary School, Kwahu-Nkwatia, to also amply encompass at least the basic temporal contours of its foundation and brief annotations on some […]

Conakry, 9 January, 2008— The sacking of a key reformist politician, and moves by President Lansana Conté to reassert control over the government, have confirmed fears that political reform is stalling. At the same time […]

Goma, 10 January, 2008— Insurgents loyal to dissident general Laurent Nkunda in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have walked out of a conference aimed at restoring peace and stability to the eastern Kivu provinces […]