Year: 2008

Dakar/Ouagadougou, 17 January, 2008— The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed outbreaks of the deadly meningitis bacterium in three West African countries, marking the start of what experts have warned might be the worst meningitis […]

Nairobi, 17 January, 2008— Human rights activists in Kenya have dismissed as meaningless police plans to launch an inquiry into the use of live rounds during protests against December’s controversial presidential elections. On 16 January […]

Lahore, 17 January, 2008— Twelve-year-old Salamat Ahmed works up to 14 hours a day in a brick factory in Sheikhupura, about 100km north of Lahore. His hands bear burn marks from placing bricks in the […]

New York, 17 January, 2008— The first two years in a child’s life are crucial in determining its well-being in adulthood, according to a series of five papers launched in The Lancet on 17 January. […]

Bismarck Kpuli stood over me with a machete, screaming at the top of his high-tenor voice. “Wake-up, PERSCOVITES, we are at war!” His eyes looked almost as if they were about to pop out of […]

Maputo, 14 January, 2008— Water levels in the major rivers of central Mozambique are continuing to rise after three days of heavy rain in neighbouring countries, officials at the National Centre for Emergency Operations warned […]

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 […]

Washington, 2 January, 2008— Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband jointly cited the need for “a sustained call from Kenya’s political leaders for the cessation of violence by their followers” […]