Africa
Madness in Senegal
If any African president has left himself at the whipping end of his peoples’ tongues recently, it is President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal. Senegal is a country with population hovering in the region of 12 […]
Month: April 2010
General News
Ending Whose Slavery Blame-Game, Prof. Gates?
I would ordinarily not be rejoining any article written and published by Harvard University’s Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and, as usual, seeking to scornfully blame continental Africans, as a whole, for the untold hardships […]
General News
Truth is Prime Casualty in Kyerematen’s Presidential Bid
When a candidate determined to clinch his party’s presidential nomination begins his campaign by vehemently denying queries about his questionable loyalty to the collective aspirations and interests of the membership of the very whose blessings […]
General News
Rush Limbaugh Was Not On Obama’s Trip To Ghana
Barely two days after President Barack H. Obama’s landmark tour of Ghana, America’s white-conservative talk-radio pontiff Mr. Rush Limbaugh was reported in an article published on Ghanaweb.com to be calling the first African-American president of […]
Health
AFGHANISTAN: Aid workers call for reopening of hospital in Helmand
KABUL, 20 April 2010 – The closure of the only hospital for war victims in Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, is harming conflict-affected patients and should be reopened as soon as possible, aid workers say. The […]
World
HAITI-US: Washington aid policy may be shifting
NEW YORK, 19 April 2010 – Former US President Bill Clinton, now a UN Special Envoy to Haiti, has pledged to foster the country’s self-sufficiency after expressing regret for implementing policies during his administration that […]
Africa
SUDAN: Election observers’ digest
JUBA, 20 April 2010 (IRIN) – Sudan held its first multiparty elections in 24 years on 11-15 April, but the election has been marred by opposition boycotts and allegations of vote rigging. Preliminary reports from […]
World
PAKISTAN: Relief work suspended after dozens killed in IDP camp attack
KOHAT, 18 April 2010 (IRIN) – Relief work has been suspended at the Kacha Pakha camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) on the outskirts of Kohat town in northwestern Pakistan after two bomb attacks killed […]
Health
GLOBAL: Are fewer mothers dying?
DAKAR, 16 April 2010 – Almost 200,000 fewer women die each year from pregnancy-related complications than previously thought, because new survey methodology and better maternal mortality data mean more accurate mortality estimates, says a global […]
Health
PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Cholera outbreak slows
BANGKOK, 15 April 2010 – A serious outbreak of cholera in Papua New Guinea (PNG) which has killed nearly 60 people shows signs of subsiding, government health officials say. “The situation has improved in recent […]