Malawi’s opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) has cautiously welcomed an informal offer by President Bingu wa Mutharika to begin cross-party talks aimed at easing political tensions.
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WEST AFRICA: Child deaths from AIDS to keep growing
Some 12,500 girls currently belong to government and non-government forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and a programme to disarm, demobilise and reintegrate all militias into society is failing them, Save the Children, an NGO, said in an August 2005 report.
Calls for review of law in wake of Madonna adoption.
Although the government has not publicly declared the Ebola haemorrhagic fever over, medical authorities in the Republic of Congo say they have the situation well under control.
US envoy in peace bid for Darfur
United States Sudan envoy Andrew Natsios has arrived in Khartoum for a trip expected to take him to the troubled region of Darfur.
Darfur campaign finds a powerful friend in MySpace
Bich Ngoc Cao had been interested in the Darfur crisis since she took a class on the history of genocide at the University of Southern California. In May, she traveled from her home in Los Angeles to Washington for the rallies on the Mall.
Sudan divestment effort gains momentum at state level
House members are scattering to their home states this week with inconclusive results on the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of western Sudan, but momentum is growing at the state level for governments to divest public funds from companies, mostly foreign-based, doing business with Khartoum.
World Health Organization backs DDT for malaria control, reversing 30 year policy
The World Health Organization (WHO) has reversed a 30-year policy by endorsing the use of DDT for malaria control.The chemical is sprayed inside houses to kill malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
George Soros donates $50 million to implement African Millennium Villages project
US billionaire George Soros is to give $50m (£26.7m)to help tackle poverty and Aids in Africa.
Mr Soros pledged to hand the cash to the United Nations’ (UN) Millennium Villages Project over five years.
Gates, Rockefeller charities Join to fight African hunger
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s richest charity, joined with the Rockefeller Foundation yesterday to launch a new development initiative for sub-Saharan Africa that they said would revolutionize food production and reduce hunger and poverty for tens of millions of people.
In Darfur, terror from the air. Sudan intensifies use of helicopter gunships and bombs, driving more villagers from their homes.
EL FASHER, Sudan, Sept. 8 — Yagoub Mustafa, 45, could not easily mimic the “whoop whoop whoop, boom! boom! boom!” of two helicopter gunships that fired rockets into the huts in his Darfur village. He tried to make the noises, but they were not loud enough, or terrifying enough.
