Former UN chief Kofi Annan has said rival parties in Kenya appear unable to resolve their differences, despite weeks of talks between the two sides.
Mr Annan urged President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga to reach a settlement after separate meetings with the pair.
Nutrition experts say governments are not investing enough to prevent and treat malnutrition in women and children in poor countries.
JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 19 — Five years after President Bush vowed to “turn the tide against AIDS” in Africa, he is traveling across a continent where the government’s $15 billion investment has extended the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and eased the sense of certain doom once experienced by millions of other
President George W Bush has said the US will help provide 5.2 million mosquito nets as part of a broader campaign to tackle malaria in sub-Saharan Africa.
The United Nations believes up to 600,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in Kenya as a result of the violence that followed elections.
Head of the UN emergency relief operation, John Holmes, said about 300,000 displaced people were in camps, with the same number living elsewhere.
UN emergency relief co-ordinator John Holmes has called for a peace deal after visiting some flashpoint areas of violence after Kenya’s disputed polls.
The envoy’s visit comes at a time of renewed hope that a political solution to the crisis can be found at talks.
First they sent leaflets saying they would avenge the killings of their tribesmen when violence flared following Kenya’s disputed election. Then they told other tribes to leave certain areas.
People’s fears had come true. The Mungiki were back.
Hundreds of men wielding machetes and clubs, attacked their opponents beheading and dismembering them in characteristic style.
Malawi is riding high on the success of its fertiliser subsidy programme and has become a regional exporter hoping to profit from booming food prices, but analysts are a bit more wary.
Globally food prices have shot up by nearly 75 percent within a decade and will continue to do so, according to the World Bank’s annual Global Economic Prospects 2008.
Widespread use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets and state-of-the-art drugs has succeeded in cutting malaria deaths in half in two countries most heavily affected by the disease, the World Health Organization is reporting today.
KAYAR, Senegal — Ale Nodye, the son and grandson of fishermen in this northern Senegalese village, said that for the past six years he netted barely enough fish to buy fuel for his boat. So he jumped at the chance for a new beginning. He volunteered to captain a wooden canoe full of 87 Africans to the Canary Islands in the hopes of making their way illegally to Europe.
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