Month: August 2012

Doctors, nurses, activists and policy makers have all been vital to Africa’s HIV programmes, but supporting them every step of the way has been an army of dedicated community health workers and volunteers who care […]

Im Rahmen seiner Kenia-Reise hat Bundesentwicklungsminister Dirk Niebel am heutigen Freitag kirchliche Entwicklungsprojekte besucht und die Zusammenarbeit mit den Kirchen gewürdigt. „Die entwicklungspolitische Zusammenarbeit des Staates mit der Katholischen wie Evangelischen Zentralstelle für Entwicklungshilfe besteht […]

UNHCR’s offices in Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, and Iraq are all reporting increases this week in the number of refugees from Syria, with the confirmed outflow now approaching 150,000. “UNHCR data, which primarily reflects those among […]

The recent murders of two Somali journalists have brought to 10 the number of media workers killed in the country since December 2011. Journalists and rights groups fear that more targeted killings lie ahead as […]

Human rights groups have condemned recent police crackdowns in Greece on undocumented migrants, inhumane detention conditions, and hate crimes committed with impunity. The Greek authorities began a crackdown on irregular migrants in the capital, Athens, […]

Lower output forecasts for US maize and soybeans and wheat from Russia in 2012/13 have been jumped on by the international media as evidence that a food crisis is almost certainly on the way. But […]

The cymbal that heralded the euphoria-tinged elevation of John Dramani Mahama to the lofty office of president is still playing – although the sounds, like a fleeting illusion, are gradually fading away. Incontestably, the discernible […]

As the electioneering campaigns for Election 2012 heat up, we don’t expect to see anything remarkably different from the strategies used by the functionaries of the various parties, especially the NPP that is hell-bent on […]