Posts having tag: health
Nigerians 'to release UK hostage' ! Matthew Maguire (r) was ...
UN team meets Chad child soldiers1 By Celeste Hicks BBC News, N'Djamena ...
Abuses in Zimbabwe 'still go on'! By Karen Allen BBC News, Johannesburg ...
ZIMBABWE - LETTER FROM THE DIASPORA ! Friday 29th May 2009 Dear Friends, Over the years, Zimbabweans have grown used to hearing half-truths and downright lies from Zanu PF and their associated hangers-on. We learned that from Zanu PF we could expect nothing but lies and propaganda. The emergence of the MDC on the political scene ...
Britons to return from Zimbabwe! Pensioner Fred Noble says he is going home to die More than 60 British passport holders, reduced to poverty in Zimbabwe, are to be repatriated to Britain over the ...
Witnesses testify in albino trial! Many people with albinism are living in fear in Burundi Witnesses have testified in the case of 11 men in Burundi, accused of the attempted murder of albino ...
Rainbow nation's outsiders live in fear By Karen Allen BBC News, Johannesburg ...
Tutu in Hay appeal for Zimbabwe! Archbishop Desmond Tutu said he had a role as a 'global elder' Archbishop Desmond Tutu has pleaded for increased support for Zimbabwe's fragile national unity ...
Circumcised die in South Africa Eight boys have died and three are in hospital after botched circumcisions in the South African province of Mpumalanga, officials say. The teenager were at an initiation school in the town ...
Mogadishu victims swamp hospitals Medics have been dealing ...
NIGERIA OIL EXECUTIONS CASE REACHES US The execution of environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa shocked the world By Andrew Walker BBC News, Nigeria ...
ZIMBABWE CHOLERA 'TO TOP 100,000' ! Zimbabwe's sanitation and health infrastructure is dilapidated The number of cholera cases in Zimbabwe is expected to reach 100,000 this week, according to the Red Cross. While the infection rate ...
TROOPS REINFORCE SOMALIA AIRPORT. Some 60,000 people have fled the recent fighting in Mogadishu Somalia's government has sent about 600 extra troops to reinforce part of southern Mogadishu, where the Horn of Africa nation's main ...
SOMALI GUNMEN 'RENOUNCE PIRACY' ! Chaotic Somalia's lack of government has allowed ...
ZIMBABWE - LETTER FROM THE DIASPORA ! Friday 22nd May 2009 Dear Friends, They call her 'The Lady'. Her name is Aung San Suu Ki and she is the leader of the opposition in Mynmar (Burma). In 1990 the military junta allowed free elections for the first time in 30 years and Aung San Suu Ki's National League for Democracy won 392 0f ...
MALAWI PRESIDENT IS INAUGURATED ! The president is being sworn in for a second five-year ...
GABON LEADER IN SPANISH HOSPITAL ! Unconfirmed reports have circulated Omar Bongo is suffering from cancer Africa's longest-serving leader, Gabon President Omar Bongo, is said to be seriously ill in hospital in Spain. Spanish ...
CALL TO BLOCKADE SOMALI ISLAMISTS ! Islamist fighters control much of the country Somalia's neighbours have called for the UN to impose a "no-fly zone" and a port blockade to prevent Islamist forces obtaining weapons. The ...
