Month: June 2010

Reform of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) is becoming more urgent as controversy over Zimbabwe’s diamond sales pushes the international initiative designed to stem the flow of conflict diamonds towards paralysis. At the KPCS […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel`s candidate has failed to win an absolute majority in the second round of the presidential election in the Bundestag. A crucial final ballot must now be held after rebel votes in […]

Voting is underway in the second round of elections to elect a new German president following the failure of Chancellor Angela Merkel`s candidate to secure the needed majority. Christian Wulff, the Conservative candidate took 600 […]

The Ugandan government will begin a nationwide male circumcision programme in July as part of its HIV prevention strategy, a senior government official has said. “We now have a national vision on how to move […]

Thousands of Gazans are taking advantage of an open border crossing with Egypt since 1 June to seek treatment for a range of illnesses in Cairo hospitals. “Israel’s blockade has left everything in Gaza in […]

HARGEISA, 30 June 2010  – Edna Adan Ismail became interested in health in the 1950s, seeing her doctor father struggle to treat the sick in the then British protectorate of Somaliland. She later became the […]

BARKADRESSOU, 30 June 2010 (IRIN) – Donors hope spirulina, a blue-green, protein-packed algae, labelled a “wonderful future food source” 45 years ago by the International Association of Microbiology, will deliver on its promise by the […]

Rustenburg, South Africa, June 26, GNA – Ghana’s Black Stars on Saturday beat United States of America 2-1 at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Rustenburg, South Africa, to qualify for the quarter-final stage of the […]