Year: 2008

Kilifi, 12 November, 2008— Under normal circumstances, 14-year-old Paul Katana would be in school, but not today. Katana is instead flagging down vehicles along the Mombasa-Malindi highway, hoping to sell sacks of charcoal he is […]

Goma, 12 November, 2008— Tens of thousands of civilians forced from their homes by fresh fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are still beyond the reach of international aid, two weeks after the launch […]

It takes a person of high moral stature and courage like Dr. Archibald Letsa to enter Election 2008 on the ticket of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the capital of the Volta Region. […]

Cairo, 9 November, 2008— On 5 October, farmer Muhammad Tulaib woke up to the news that red palm weevils – a large species of beetle locally known as ‘sussit el-nakhil’ – were found in one […]

Accra, 7 November, 2008— A long queue of trucks loaded with timber, freshly sawed from Ghana’s fast-depleting forests, lines up at Accra’s Tema Harbour to offload to ships bound for Europe. No one at the […]

New York, 6 November, 2008— The financial crisis is expected to have a severe impact on humanitarian funding, with some analysts projecting cuts in official development assistance (ODA) of up to a third or more. […]

Kabul, 6 November, 2008— Hundreds of thousands of livestock could be lost in Afghanistan in the next six months unless aid agencies urgently provide animal feed, vaccines and water, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and […]

Nairobi, 6 November, 2008— The UN has called for the immediate release of four aid workers and two pilots who were abducted on 5 November in central Somalia’s Galgadud region. Unidentified gunmen abducted the six […]