Nairobi, 29 January, 2008— The “official dialogue process” began on 29 January between Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and the opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), even as violence that has ravaged the country since late December […]

Dakar, 28 January, 2008— Experts put the lack of progress on children’s development in West Africa down to pervasive poverty, chronic malnutrition in many countries, piecemeal aid responses, and health systems broken by protracted conflicts. […]

Nakuru, 29 January, 2008— Violence in the Rift Valley town of Nakuru has seen the numbers of displaced at the town’s largest camp skyrocket, but camp officials say it is becoming increasingly difficult to provide […]

Khartoum, 23 January, 2008— A rash of banditry is threatening food supplies to more than two million people in Darfur, raising the possibility that rations will have to be cut, the United Nations World Food […]

Jerusalem, 22 January, 2008— UN agencies and aid organisations launched a US$461.9 million appeal on 22 January for the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). The appeal by 12 UN agencies, 15 international aid groups and 13 […]

Sanaa, 17 January, 2008— The Environmental Emergencies Department (EMD) at Yemen’s Ministry of Water has warned that the volcano on Jabal al-Tair, a tiny island in the Red Sea close to the Yemeni coast, might […]

Dubai, 17 January, 2008— After a two-year-long national debate on the new Charities draft law in Jordan, the government decided last week to withdraw it from parliament to allow more discussions with civil society and […]

Dakar/Ouagadougou, 17 January, 2008— The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed outbreaks of the deadly meningitis bacterium in three West African countries, marking the start of what experts have warned might be the worst meningitis […]