Month: August 2010

Women outside a store in the town of Mianwali, in the northwestern part of Punjab Province, stand in mud up to their shins – mud left behind by floodwater which has now begun to recede […]

Civilians, especially women, tend to bear the brunt of armed conflicts across the world, particularly in Somalia, where Islamist insurgents are fighting a weak government propped up by African Union forces. Several women in Mogadishu […]

Milovan Rajevac includes 12 players from the 2010 FIFA World Cup squad in the 18-man list for the friendly against South Africa on August 11. Cofie Bekoe, an emerging potential based in Egypt has been […]

In a recent call-in to the Accra-based Radio Gold’s current affairs program “Alhaji and Alhaji,” the former National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) parliamentary majority leader was reported to have asked the “Minority group in Parliament [to […]

Dozens of Afghan refugees have been reported missing and thousands displaced by severe floods in Pakistan over the past two weeks, according to refugees, aid workers and officials. Khyber-Pukhtunkhwa (KP) Province, northwestern Pakistan, where most […]

Wheat prices have doubled in the last two months, notching up the fastest food price rise an economist said he said seen in the last 20 years. “In the last week alone, the price went […]

Cholera has killed at least 94 people in northern Cameroon and is spreading, in what health officials say is the most severe outbreak in years. “We are used to seeing cholera here during the rainy […]

In a nondescript room on the 14th floor of a Nairobi office block, the words “hate speech” appear on a computer screen next to the name of a prominent politician, with location, a telephone number […]