January 2009 Archive/API/News 

• Israel has tightly controlled information during its military operation, not allowing foreign correspondents into the Strip
• Mushrooming substandard housing, the Ministry of Urban Development has said.
• Twelve seriously injured people have had limbs amputated over the past 48 hours
• We will soon reveal the names of the members of the august House who have been caught up in the scam.
• We have new faces in this new government and I hope they can give this country what it needs

• The men, who were involved in providing HIV prevention, care and treatment services to Senegal's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, have been sentenced to eight years in prison.
  
• People feel like they have been abandoned - no HIV treatment
• The Secret Service has unveiled a state-of-the-art armoured presidential limousine that Obama will use during his presidency
• THISDAY learnt that the African Diaspora is actively seeking to place Africa’s interests at the forefront of US foreign policy in the next eight years.
• Ugandan students - Exhibiting a prototype car in Italy
• Ten million Africans now constitute an invisible nation that resides outside Africa.

January 18th, 2009:

• I do not want people to know that I am sick, so we just use her drugs and wait until it is time for her to go for another round
• Israel declared a unilateral ceasefire on 18 January
• The level of resilience, as calculated, can help determine the kind of interventions needed in acute food
• Women giving birth cannot even find a bit of charcoal to heat water for washing
• There is an issue with water and sanitation systems which are old and will only spread diseases - Zimbabwe

January 17th, 2009:

• A decision whether to increase JIU troops will have to be taken by the Presidency.
• Families who sell their daughters to lift themselves out of poverty
• My only source of income is selling these tomatoes
• The poor do not have the necessary technology and resources, in terms of money and so on, to be able to change and adapt
• The national adult HIV prevalence is less than 0.1 percent in a population of 90 million

 

January 16th, 2009:

• Pakistan - campaign to eradicate polio may continue to face challenges
• Islam does not oppose delayed pregnancies if this helps the health and well-being of mothers
• To be HIV-positive in Iraq means social isolation
• Shelter is our most ardent need, -  said Noorullah, the father of a returnee family.
• Prison conditions [in Liberia] remain deplorable

January 15th, 2009:

• People are interested in getting a profit, but this is a human rights issue
• In 1997, 1,600 out of every 100,000 women giving birth were estimated to die in Somaliland.
• The problem lies in the consistency of the soil. If there is no rain for only two weeks, the soil is completely dry and the harvest lost
• The cattle I was raising died in 1973 due to the drought that year
• South African aid package to Zimbabwe appears to have been distributed without an agreed monitoring mechanism in place

January 14th, 2009:

• Lawyer Donald Kipkorir writes about Duncan Muruiki - our clients have been injured in their credit and reputation and have been brought into public scandal, odium and contempt.
• Newly identified areas in Mozambique may take upto 6 years to clear - Landmines
• Oil-importing economies, outside of South Africa, grew 5.2 percent in 2008, down from 5.8 percent in 2007
• Most African leaders who preach free and transparent elections, do not really believe in what they preach
• Failing to open business in the new year - companies in Zimbabwe
• Zuma to face charges on corruption
• Election demand in Guinea - Heads of opposition parties submitted a proposal to Camara on 4 January calling for legislative and presidential elections to be held within a 12-month period

January 13th, 2009:

• Expiry of Tsvangirai's Term Causes Anxiety
• The displaced are reported to be scattered in villages around Guri-Eil and Dusamareb, the regional capital - Somalia
• Bemba wanted to traumatize and terrorize the civilian population so they would not support the rebels, - Bensouda said. He chose rape as his method.
• Somalia has one of the world’s highest levels of malnutrition
• Scandal in The Kenya Tourism: Stealing from the public if discovered must be punished
• The rain fails the Kenyan people - Among the hardest hit are Coast, arid and semi-arid areas as well as some parts of Eastern Province.
• Uganda still has not provided any proof that any LRA fighters have been killed or captured, three weeks after the attack.
• Officials in the Southern Sudanese capital of Juba said the men who conducted the 5 January attack were suspected remnants of the Ugandan rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
• Food security is a chronic problem in Lesotho
• The culture of violence has increased because there is no fear of the law

*******

• Profit made by luring the poor - microfinance institutions should help the poor instead
• Tighter rules to govern Charity organizations in Ethiopia
• The people of Congo are suffering due to water shortage
• The self-declared autonomous region of Puntland in northeastern Somalia has a new president

*****

• Getting a new one:  Exactly a year ago today, Zuma married his fourth wife Nompumelelo Ntuli at his homestead in Nkandla.
• The resultant loss of life and continuing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is unacceptable
• 30 percent of Kenya's disease burden is sanitation-related, with many children dying from diarrhoeal diseases including dysentery, cholera and typhoid
• Loosing press freedom after Kibaki signed bill into law
• Fighting child trafficking in West Africa.
• Sudanese people - During the rainy season, villages barely 40km from Kadugli, the state capital, are cut off for months

*****

• Bent on revenge, perpetrators throw acid into their victims’ faces in an effort to severely disfigure them, often with horrifying results.
• Most of the people with low incomes spend 75 to 80 percent of their money only to buy food
• Iraqi situation - A top priority is to buy land for housing projects.
• Transparency International Kenya chapter chairman Dr Richard Leakey asks the Kenya government to resign 
• Israeli began a ground offensive on 3 January, firing artillery shells and then sending troops into Gaza.
• Malawi - Kassim Kalukwete says families in his village do not have enough food
• You plant your seeds and then the rain doesn't come - Loosing your crops 
• Burundi agreement being implemented - Prisoner release
• Drugs and a longing for a lifestyle in high places ruins lives
• Nomadic herders have historically passed through Maal en route south to the Senegal River - water drying up 
• I've seen a lot of people getting sick and suffering and I wanted to help;" Attention given to HIV patients
• Ghana opposition leader wins presidential election
• Japanese and South African to compete for Directorship
• UN REPORT OUTLINES ALARMING DROP INLAKE VICTORIA WATER LEVELS  
• Happy New Year 2009 to all our readers
• TOGO: How to improve a “worst form of labour”
• The rage to form a political movement - Kenyans

Custom Search