By Guy Hubbard
Inmates here live on top of each other. They sleep, eat and wash in an area meant for only 30 prisoners. An open sewer runs through their cellblock, the roof leaks and all the mattresses are infested with lice. continue reading »
Once we were speaking about hunger, now we speak about malnutrition; we may have changed the word to describe the situation, but the results are the same: death and in the best case survivors vulnerable to illness and intellectually disabled. continue reading »
Nairobi — Parliament has been riled by the influx of street children in major towns, even as the government admitted that it had no idea where many of them slept.
Gender and Children Services assistant minister Manyala Keya (Lurambi, ODM) told MPs that even though many of them had been rehabilitated and got their food from the rehabilitation centres set up to cater for them, he “didn’t know exactly where they slept.” continue reading »
Poverty remains widespread in the country despite efforts to reduce it. Official figures suggest that around one third of the total population live in poverty, defined as the inability to afford a basket of basic food and non-food items. Many others are very close to the poverty line. In fact, increasing the poverty line by only 10.0 per cent leaves well over half of the population mired in poverty. Whatever figure is chosen, the poverty reduction challenge facing the country is significant indeed. continue reading »
The Muslim Community Centre, Abuja, yesterday ended a two-day workshop for classroom teachers in the centre.
Director of the centre, Alhaji Abdullahi B. Yawa advised teachers to strive for fairness, adding that it has been identified as an effective tool to achieve self respect and ensure effective classroom discipline as well as management.
Alhaji Yawa in his paper noted that students have a distinct sense of judging situations, thus making it a must for teachers to always act fairly to them at all situations. continue reading »
Young Ayesha Harruna Attah grew up in a home where reading and writing flow through the blood. Ayesha is a biochemistry degree holder from Mount Holyoke College. She studied journalism at the Columbia University. Her parents own one of Ghana’s respected private newspapers, The Mail, where she started as a tyro.
Ayesha Harruna Attah
With a fellowship from Per Ankh Publishers and TrustAfrica, she wrote her first novel, Harmattan Rain that was nominated by the Commonwealth Writers Foundation for best first book from Africa 2010. continue reading »
The United Nations has allocated $2.7 million in emergency funding to two of its humanitarian agencies so they can help combat fresh outbreaks of measles and meningitis in Chad.
The Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), set up in 2006 to allow the UN to dispatch funds to tackle disasters and crises as soon as they emerge, is giving about $1.9 million to the World Health Organization (WHO) and almost $850,000 to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF). continue reading »
Medical staff at a clinic in the coastal slum of Kroo Bay, in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, have been keeping a diary of their working lives for the BBC News website. continue reading »
Ban Ki-moon describes the toll taken by malaria as ‘unacceptable’
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for the elimination of malaria deaths by the end of 2010 as he marked the first World Malaria Day. continue reading »
On World Malaria Day, Chris and Xand Van Tulleken, working with the aid agency Merlin, highlight the devastating link between conflict and rates of malaria infection. continue reading »
