Month: April 2010

DAKAR, 8 April 2010 (IRIN) – In Africa government spending on health care, as a percentage of national expenses, rose just 0.3 percent from 2001 to 2007, while donor funding of the sector during the […]

It is rather refreshing, finally, to hear former President John Agyekum-Kufuor exhort the newly-elected National Executive Committee (NEC) members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to “employ truthfulness and love for the party [in order] […]

Well, well, well…. Fellow countrymen and women, the Twenty-Million-Dollar Question has, at long last, come up again! I all along expected it to rear up its proverbially ugly head, once more; that was shortly after […]

SANAA, 6 April 2010  – “It is better for us to stay here and keep the ration cards which allow us to get aid. Who will give us food at home if we return?” Sultan […]

NAIROBI, 6 April 2010  – Authorities in Somalia’s self-declared autonomous region of Puntland have begun repatriating hundreds of Ethiopian migrants, officials told IRIN. “These are people who decided they wanted to return but could not […]

IRAQ: Health system needs years of work BAGHDAD, 4 April 2010 – Much more time and effort is needed to improve Iraq’s health system and institutions, which have been battered by decades of conflict, underinvestment […]

CAIRO, 8 March 2010  – Egypt is moving to curb the spread of avian influenza (H5N1) after a recent upsurge in infections, the Egyptian Health Ministry says. The sale of poultry between any of Egypt’s […]