Posts having tag: health
Nigeria welcomes UK prisoner plan! Nigeria's prisons are not considered good enough for UK prisoners Nigeria's government says it is happy with a UK plan to help refurbish their prisons to allow ...
Africans prepare to welcome Obama! Africa is preparing to welcome President Barack Obama. BBC News website readers in Africa tell us their hopes and expectations of the visit. The most powerful man in the world will touch ...
DR Congo army 'to act over rapes'! DR Congo troops are trying to flush rebels out of the east The Congolese military has promised to punish any soldiers found guilty of rights abuses, after ...
Could Sudan clashes herald return to war? More people have been killed in South Sudan than Darfur in recent months By Peter Martell ...
UK plans new powers on genocide! Some 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda's genocide Suspects in the Rwandan and Balkan genocides living in Britain could be tried in the UK, under plans outlined ...
Charity plea over kidnapped pair! Hundreds of thousands of people need aid in Darfur The head of an Irish charity whose aid workers were kidnapped in Darfur has appealed for their safe ...
Kenya sets new tribunal deadline! Rioting started after claims of fraud in the December 2007 election Kenya and the International Criminal Court have agreed on a new deadline to set up a special ...
Zanzibaris kicking the heroin habit! By Frederica Boswell BBC News, Zanzibar ...
DR Congo troops accused of rapes! The UN backs the Congolese army offensive Government troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo carry out most of the rapes of civilians caught up in the war ...
Uganda gets free Google text tips! Millions of Ugandans have mobile phones but no internet A mobile-phone service has been set up in Uganda to give people weather forecasts, farming advice and ...
Fury at Rwanda sterilisation bill! Rwanda is being urged to drop a draft law which would forcibly sterilise people who are mentally disabled. US-based campaign group Human Rights Watch said the proposed law was deeply ...
Zambian nurses defy sack threat! Zambia's health services are heavily dependent on nurses Striking nurses in Zambia have defied a government deadline to return to work or face dismissal. They ...
'Attack' mars Nigeria oil amnesty! Militant attacks have sharply cut Nigeria's oil output Nigeria's main oil militant group has claimed to have carried out a new attack in the Niger Delta, hours ...
Bumper crop, but Zimbabwe hungry! Zimbabwe has had a bumper maize crop but the hunger crisis remains Some three million people face hunger in Zimbabwe, despite a significant rise in food ...
Sudan to execute diplomat killers! John Granville was killed while driving home on New Year's Day Four men in Sudan have been sentenced to death for the killing of a US diplomat and his driver ...
Somalia MPs flee assassinations! Hardline Islamists have been battling pro-government forces since 7 May Scores of Somali politicians have fled the war-torn Horn of Africa nation in the last ...
Somali president calls emergency! Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed came to power in January Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has declared a state of emergency in the ...
Panic over Uganda swine flu hoax South Africa is the only ...
Algeria militants 'ambush police'! Islamist militants have killed 24 Algerian paramilitary policemen - in one of the worst single attacks this year, according to reports. They were ambushed near the settlement of ...
Mass action beating river blindness! By Nik Wood BBC News, Burkina Faso ...
