Year: 2008

Nairobi, 5 November, 2008— Thousands of people have been affected after flash floods submerged hundreds of hectares of farmland in the north-eastern region of Mandera about a month after floods displaced hundreds of families in […]

Lusaka, 3 November, 2008— Zambia cemented its democratic credentials on 30 October in an election that observers judged free and fair, even though a defeated opposition leader has disputed the results in what was an […]

Ziarat, 2 November, 2008— Initial needs assessments of survivors of the 29 October earthquake in northwest Balochistan warn that women and children are most at risk. Over 70,000 people, including 30,000 children, were left homeless […]

Dakar, 27 October, 2008— Some of the biggest development and humanitarian NGOs are laying off staff or revising programmes for 2009 as their income streams flatten because of the global financial crisis. Fundraising experts of […]

Last week, when he trudged a 100-meter alleyway in Abeka, the well-known suburb of Accra, a Ghana News Agency (GNA) reporter commended him for defying the scorching sun, almost as if to suggest that his […]

For the most part, I have carefully steered clear of the raging debate on the relevance or, for that matter, otioseness of the traditional Ghanaian institution of the monarchy. The disdain of Western-European colonizers for […]

Baghdad, 23 October, 2008— At least 17 percent of piped water nationwide, and one-third of the water in Baghdad, is not potable, according to a survey by the Iraqi Health Ministry. “The percentage of dirty […]

Nairobi, 23 October, 2008— Every year, hundreds of thousands of people are forced to flee their homes to escape war or natural disasters. Displaced within their own country and having lost loved ones, livelihoods and […]