Month: August 2010

The announcement by over 500 defectors from the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) into the camp of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), that the defectors had stolen at least two ballot boxes from the […]

Film Review By Eric Singh, ANA Snr. Contributing Editor Themba – A Boy Called Hope, is one of, if not, the most powerful socio-political film coming out of South Africa. The novel by Lutz van […]

When Safi Mukhtar had her first baby, she never considered going to a hospital or clinic for the delivery. Faced with some of the world’s worst maternal mortality statistics, the Ethiopian government hopes that next […]

Sri Lanka has launched a massive community prevention campaign targeting dengue fever using billboards, TV spots and even schoolchildren. “I have made my parents clean up the garden,” said Kasun Dilhan, a seven-year-old pupil at […]

The trial of Thomas Lubanga on war crimes charges that include the conscription of children, the first ever to be heard by the International Criminal Court, has been viewed as an important test of the […]

The northwest and southeast regions of Djibouti should receive good rains from July to September, but thousands of pastoralists will still need food assistance until the end of the year, warns an agency. The Famine […]

Finding temporary shelter for people made homeless by floods in Afghanistan is being hampered by a shortage of tents, according to aid agencies. Several vendors said they could not replenish stocks due to the floods […]

Now that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has resoundingly settled the question of who will lead it to Election 2012, the temptation will be for members and staunch supporters of the party to fervidly latch […]