Month: November 2011

In an editorial published in the October 26, 2011 edition of Modernghana.com and captioned “Rawlings Now NPP…Declares NDC MP,” the publisher of the Al-Hajj newspaper rather peevishly claims that since President John Evans Atta-Mills was […]

Altaf Abdullah al-Mahdi, 40, has found it increasingly difficult to feed her family in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, since she and her 19-year-old daughter, Baghdad, lost their jobs as cleaners in a plastic factory, which […]

Thousands of Africans continue to seek refuge in Yemen, despite continuing conflict and increasing xenophobia. Some know the risks, but believe Yemen will still be better than the war and food crisis they left behind. […]

Pakistan’s army of “Lady Health Workers” – some 90,000 strong – was never meant to diagnose and treat serious illnesses. Instead, these female community health workers (in Pakistan, men cannot visit families) were expected to […]

Rights groups in Nigeria fear a same-sex marriage bill being discussed in parliament could boost already prevalent discrimination against homosexuals. The bill goes much further than banning same-sex marriage; it threatens to ban the formation […]

Information about how climate change may affect any city, town or village in Africa until the next century will be available by mid-2012 as scientists localise global climate data. The Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment […]

Soaring temperatures and erratic rains brought on by a changing climate may radically alter water flows in the world’s major river basins, including the Limpopo in southern Africa, forcing people to give up farming in […]

“Addressing NTDs improves productivity and contribute to broader economic growth and prosperity of countries” – says Dr Neeraj Mistry, Managing Director, Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases in an exclusive interview with ANA’s Musah Ibrahim […]