Month: September 2008

Niamey, 12 September, 2008— Niger’s population is overwhelmingly young, with about 70 percent of its 13 million population under 25 years old, according to a 2005 UN, government and World Bank study on vulnerable children […]

Kampala, 12 September, 2008— Comprehensive and long-term services aimed at increased latrine coverage and better sanitation practices are needed to fend off Hepatitis E in northern Uganda, according to a report by the International Rescue […]

Harare, 12 September, 2008— Hope has been resuscitated among long-suffering Zimbabweans after a power-sharing deal between President Robert Mugabe and his rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, was announced late on 11 September. The opposition Movement for Democratic […]

Nairobi, 12 September, 2008— Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary-General, warns in a new report that the gains made in reducing extreme poverty are under threat from the rise in global food and fuel prices and […]

Khartoum, 12 September, 2008— Increasing violence in the western Sudanese region of Darfur is threatening the delivery of humanitarian aid to hundreds of thousands of desperately needy people, UN officials have warned. “Military bombardments and […]

Gicumbi, 5 September, 2008— Over the years local residents of Rebero in Gicumbi District north of the Rwandan capital of Kigali, watched as their soil was washed away by rain. They also had to contend […]

Dakar, 5 September, 2008— Hundreds attending the first all-African carbon forum agreed entrepreneurs in Africa need cash to break into the expanding international carbon emissions trading market. Polluters looking for credits The carbon forum matched […]

An interesting editorial appeared in the Ghanaian Chronicle newspaper edition of Friday, August 29, 2008. The editorial was limpidly titled “The Assassination Plot against Obama” and decried the allegedly uncovered plot to liquidate the African-American […]