Month: December 2010

Few countries generate such a volume and breadth of coverage by IRIN as Somalia. Here are some of the year’s highlights, including stories that give a voice to individuals caught up in the conflict between […]

The conflict between Houthi rebels and the Yemen government has forced an estimated one-third of the population in the northwestern region of Sa’ada – the centre of the fighting – to flee their homes; in […]

Ever since the predictable Atiwa by-election, occasioned by the death of its substantive Member of Parliament (MP), whose name I cannot readily recall, I have been too deeply mired in my own worldly cares to […]

Dalit communities, the lowest of the 100 caste groups in Nepal, continue to be marginalized, despite the fact that caste-based discrimination was abolished in 1963, activists say. “Untouchability and discrimination were legitimized by the state […]

President John Evans Atta Mills on Friday appealed to Ghanaian medical professionals abroad to consider the sacrifices the nation made in training them and come back home to render their due to their countrymen. He […]

Former President Jerry John Rawlings and Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings have in a Christmas and New Year message called on Ghanaians to endeavour to apply truth as a guide in all their actions. President and Mrs. […]

In Côte d’Ivoire’s post-election turmoil, with two political camps claiming power and widespread fear of renewed war, the UN’s operation in the country has been in the spotlight, and lately – literally – in the […]

3. The competitors’ sports achievements not in any year but the year 2010. This is the area where if one refuses to examine the records well, it may seems that Samuel Eto’o couldn’t come closer […]