KHARTOUM, Sudan — The morning call to prayer echoed through the city as Ahmed Abdulraham, 14, a small boy with cloudy, yellowing eyes, rose from his version of a mattress: a pile of trash spread across a gutter.
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SOMALIA: Continuing fighting forces hundreds more to flee homes
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched on Monday a campaign to support and protect tens of thousands of Burundian children living with or affected by HIV/AIDS.
At the ceremony in the capital, Bujumbura, the UNICEF representative to Burundi, Catherine Mbengue, said children had been largely left out of most anti-HIV/AIDS campaigns.
KENYA: Alarming levels of child sex exploitation, UN agency reports
The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has rejected a proposal by Uganda to redeploy its troops to eastern Congo to hunt Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels as well as other Ugandan rebels groups there, Congolese government spokesman and Minister for Information Henri Mova Sakanyi said on Friday.
ZAMBIA: Poor nutrition nullifies benefit of ARV treatment
The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) has cautioned in a new report that Southern Africa may not be adequately prepared for the upcoming planting season, while widespread food shortages batter the region.
Aid workers quit Darfur violence. Sharply deteriorating security in the Darfur region of Sudan has led to the withdrawal of 250 relief workers.
Aid workers face “unprecedented difficulties” because of military activity and direct violence against them, a statement by six agencies says.
Central African Republic: Rebels, government blame each other for village destruction
Eritrea downplayed the significance of restricting UN helicopters on Thursday, describing recent remarks by the Ethiopian prime minister as duplicitous.
Speaking to journalists for the first time since Eritrea grounded UN peacekeeping helicopters earlier this month, a senior government official said that recent comments by Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi were offensive.
WEST AFRICA: Girls getting educated but also abused
Senegal’s leading private radio was closed down for most of the day on Monday under special instructions from the Interior Ministry after the station interviewed one of the leaders of a two-decade separatist rebellion in the southern Casamance region of the country.
LIBERIA: UN maintains diamond sanction, demanding better government controls
On a quiet street in Emina el Bahri, a small town just 10 km from the Sudanese capital Khartoum, Sada Adam sits on the porch of a small shop and sells cups of tea to the locals.
LIBERIA: Speaking out about Taylor’s son
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Somalis ‘at war’ with Ethiopia
“All Somalis should take part in this struggle against Ethiopia,” Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys said from Mogadishu.
Fresh heavy fighting is reported near the weak Somali government’s Baidoa base, amid fears conflict could plunge the entire Horn of Africa into crisis.
