Geneva, 20 November, 2008— The UN is asking for a record US$7 billion to help 30 million people in Africa and the Middle East. “The money is being used to keep people alive,” said John […]
Monrovia, 19 November, 2008— With just one in 25 Liberians having access to a toilet, most use the nearest bush or beach, unwittingly committing what the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) calls “the riskiest sanitation practice”. […]
Accra, 14 November, 2008— Ten people have been confirmed dead and two are hospitalised following an outbreak of meningitis in north-central Ghana. The disease broke out on 25 October in Yaw Bronya farming community in […]
Just when I thought I was recovering, somewhat (for one never really or fully recovers from such inevitably traumatic events), from the recent passing of Eskia (Ezekiel) Mphahlele, the South African literary giant, now comes […]
Kilifi, 12 November, 2008— Under normal circumstances, 14-year-old Paul Katana would be in school, but not today. Katana is instead flagging down vehicles along the Mombasa-Malindi highway, hoping to sell sacks of charcoal he is […]
Goma, 12 November, 2008— Tens of thousands of civilians forced from their homes by fresh fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are still beyond the reach of international aid, two weeks after the launch […]
It takes a person of high moral stature and courage like Dr. Archibald Letsa to enter Election 2008 on the ticket of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the capital of the Volta Region. […]
Cairo, 9 November, 2008— On 5 October, farmer Muhammad Tulaib woke up to the news that red palm weevils – a large species of beetle locally known as ‘sussit el-nakhil’ – were found in one […]
Accra, 7 November, 2008— A long queue of trucks loaded with timber, freshly sawed from Ghana’s fast-depleting forests, lines up at Accra’s Tema Harbour to offload to ships bound for Europe. No one at the […]
New York, 6 November, 2008— The financial crisis is expected to have a severe impact on humanitarian funding, with some analysts projecting cuts in official development assistance (ODA) of up to a third or more. […]
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