Year: 2008

Abuja, 21 October, 2008— The Nigerian Ministry of Health is trying to determine what caused a gastroenteritis outbreak that has claimed 120 lives in northern Nigeria’s Sokoto state and dozens more in the northwest, according […]

Kampala, 21 October, 2008— About 5,600 people who fled clashes in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have crossed into neighbouring Uganda, according to the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR. Some 4,000 are staying with relatives […]

Thirty-six years after his demise, the first Prime Minister of Ghana, later Life-President, continues to engage the imagination of many an African intellectual and scholar. The tragic reality, however, is that such engagement has tended […]

Cape Town, 17 October, 2008— About 200 Somali businessmen in South Africa’s Western Cape Province are being threatened with violence if they continue doing business in the townships. They recently returned to the areas after […]

Dakar, 17 October, 2008— An international NGO is using cartoons to spell out to African soldiers the rights and wrongs of how to treat a child. Save the Children Sweden (SC-S) on 17 October wrapped […]

Kwadukuza, 17 October, 2008— Computers are increasingly ubiquitous in the developing world as software and internet companies create operating systems, computing programmes, and web-based portals in hundreds of indigenous languages. Following the rapid growth of […]

Dakar, 17 October, 2008— Despite growing for centuries in some of the driest, toughest agricultural zones of West Africa, the fonio cereal has been neglected by most agricultural development programmes, according to the World Bank. […]

Port Morseby, 17 October, 2008— The 38-year-old woman first arrived at the Family Support Centre (FSC) at Port Moresby General Hospital in August 2008. “The violence has been going on for years,” she told IRIN. […]