Unicef: Tackling diarrhoea and pneumonia saves 2m lives
Two million of the world’s poorest children could be saved by introducing routine vaccination programmes against diarrhoea and pneumonia, says Unicef. It says focusing on these diseases would narrow the survival gap between the richest and poorest children. Pneumonia and diarrhoea account for one-third of all global deaths among children under five. Unicef’s report, in [...]
In our series of viewpoints from African journalists, Elizabeth Ohene – who was a minister in Ghana’s former NPP government – compares what is happening in the eurozone with the crisis of her country’s currency. I have of course, like everybody else on the globe, been following the euro crisis. There is no escaping it. [...]
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(CNN) — The first former head of state to be convicted of war crimes since World War II was sentenced to 50 years in prison Wednesday by an international court in The Hague, Netherlands. The court convicted Charles Taylor last month of aiding rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone in a campaign of terror, involving murder, [...]
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TEL AVIV — The first Molotov cocktail ignited a backyard fence, just a couple of feet from where three Eritrean refugees were sleeping outdoors on makeshift beds of wood planks atop old TV sets. One man burned his arm trying to extinguish the flames with a blanket. Moments later, a second firebomb was tossed through [...]
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