Year: 2009

Conakry, 7 October, 2009— Hundreds of people in the Guinea capital Conakry are still coping with grave injuries from the 28 September military attack on demonstrators in which human rights organizations say at least 150 […]

Bangkok, 7 October, 2009— The UN launched a flash appeal on 7 October for over US$74 million for the Philippines after deadly storms brought extensive flooding and dealt a blow to the country’s agricultural sector. […]

Johannesburg, 7 October, 2009— Cholera is not only linked to climate change, it also has an El Niño angle. For instance, Papua New Guinea, an island state in the Pacific Ocean, recorded its first cholera […]

Padang, 7 October, 2009— The damage caused to Indonesia’s West Sumatra province by the earthquake last month has exposed what experts say are poor construction standards in the seismically vulnerable region. In the provincial capital […]

Dakar, 30 September, 2009— Guinean soldiers have been looting shops, breaking into homes and firing indiscriminately at people who ventured onto the streets of the capital Conakry, residents say, one day after scores were killed […]

Berlin, 21 September, 2009— Germany is celebrating or observing a number of events this year. The division of the country when the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG =BRD) was formed on 7th September 1949 with […]

The cultural savagery induced by some African governments and individuals in recent weeks is becoming too glaringly embarrassing to be allowed to persist without any remark. And the fact that such untoward anomaly has violently […]

In the aftermath of President Barack H. Obama’s whirlwind tour of Ghana this July, Ghana’s Information minister, Ms. Zita Okaikoi, was reported to have caviled the state-run Ghana Television (GTV) for woefully failing to capture […]