Year: 2008

Nairobi, 29 January, 2008— The “official dialogue process” began on 29 January between Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and the opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), even as violence that has ravaged the country since late December […]

Dakar, 28 January, 2008— Experts put the lack of progress on children’s development in West Africa down to pervasive poverty, chronic malnutrition in many countries, piecemeal aid responses, and health systems broken by protracted conflicts. […]

Nakuru, 29 January, 2008— Violence in the Rift Valley town of Nakuru has seen the numbers of displaced at the town’s largest camp skyrocket, but camp officials say it is becoming increasingly difficult to provide […]

Washington, 28 January, 2008— “Men and women who are free to determine their own destinies will reject terror and refuse to live in tyranny,” President Bush told Congress in the final State of the Union […]

The approaches to the school were quite breathtaking. As one entered the main gate, the visitor was met with an impeccably white-washed sentry box. The latter was never devoid of a neatly uniformed watchman, any […]

Khartoum, 23 January, 2008— A rash of banditry is threatening food supplies to more than two million people in Darfur, raising the possibility that rations will have to be cut, the United Nations World Food […]

Kinshasa, 22 J anuary, 2008— News that parties to the bloody conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) said they would sign a peace treaty was welcomed by those displaced by […]

Jerusalem, 22 January, 2008— UN agencies and aid organisations launched a US$461.9 million appeal on 22 January for the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). The appeal by 12 UN agencies, 15 international aid groups and 13 […]