Los Angeles, Calif. – Armed men identifying themselves as Al-Shabab, a splinter group of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), invaded four International Medical Corps (IMC) offices in the Bakool and Bay regions of Somalia on Wednesday. Al-Shabab demanded keys to all offices and warehouses and in the subsequent two days looted IMC property from all [...]
Entries from September 2008
September 27, 2008
International Medical Corps offices in Somalia’s central region looted; activities suspended
September 26, 2008
At least 69 children dead in Sudan food crisis – UN
KHARTOUM, Sept 25 (Reuters) – At least 69 children have died from malnutrition and sickness after floods washed away crops in isolated villages in southeast Sudan in recent weeks, U.N. agencies said on Thursday.
Blocked roads and a lack of air transport are preventing the supply of emergency rations to parts of the region, the agencies [...]
September 26, 2008
UMNO LEADERSHIP TRANSITION
Supreme Council meets today on power transfer
KUALA LUMPUR:
The Umno supreme council meets in emergency session today to again thrash out the leadership transition plan, including the possibility of postponing the December party elections.
Supreme council members were notified by party headquarters around noon yesterday as speculation grew that changes could be made to the scheduled transfer [...]
September 24, 2008
The worst place in the world to give birth – exclusive pictures from Afghanistan
24 September 2008
Afghanistan needs another 8,000 midwives
“In Afghanistan, a woman dies every 27 minutes due to pregnancy-related complications.”
When the UN meets this week to discuss the Millennium Development Goals maternal mortality will be high on the agenda. The target to cut the rate by three quarters by 2015 is the most severely off-track of all [...]
September 24, 2008
Ramadhan Appeal
Mr. President, United States of America
Do not torture these prisoners. Do not abuse the privileges given to you.
Visit these websites to find more…
http://www.wiolawapress.com/campxray.htm
http://www.campxray.org/
http://geocities.com/torturevictim/cuba.html
http://www.angelfire.com/empire/preshezmuslimah/camp_x.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/americas/2002/inside_camp_xray/default.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detainment_camp
http://www.rotten.com/library/crime/prison/camp-x-ray/
September 24, 2008
SHARING OBSERVING RAMADHAN
Muslim faithful throughout the world are currently observing the holy month of Ramadan. Observant Muslims participate in fasting (sawm), one of the five pillars of their faith, this entire Lunar month (this year it extends from September 1st to the 30th). Eating, drinking, smoking and sexual activity is prohibited from dawn until sunset, when the [...]
September 23, 2008
China’s tainted milk scandal hits exports
BEIJING, Sept. 23 (UPI) — The tainted milk products scandal that has sickened more than 50,000 babies in China is taking a toll on the country’s dairy products exports.
Ten countries — including Taiwan, Singapore and Japan and some African countries — have banned Chinese dairy products, CNN reported.
The babies sickened by melamine-tainted milk products [...]
September 23, 2008
Pakistan leaders said in narrow hotel bomb escape
ISLAMABAD (AFP) – Pakistan’s top leaders were due to have dinner at Islamabad’s Marriott hotel on the night it was bombed but cheated death after switching venue at the last minute, a senior official said Monday.
The hotel however denied the claim, made by interior ministry chief Rehman Malik, that President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister [...]
September 22, 2008
NATO condemns insurgents for failing to observe UN Day of Peace in Afghanistan
Despite the declarations of commitment to the UN Day of Peace on Sunday, the insurgents in Afghanistan chose to show their contempt for peace by attacking and killing Afghan army and kidnapping innocent civilians, said a statement released here by the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on Monday.
“From shortly after midnight on Saturday, [...]
