December 10, 2008 Lame Duck Follies on Somalia The Enough Campaign warns that recent developments in U.S. policy toward Somalia are counterproductive to the cause of peace and stability there. As the Bush administration prepares to leave office, it is taking three ill-considered actions that threaten to exacerbate the already catastrophic situation in Somalia and tie the hands of the incoming Obama... 

09 December, 2008 03:21:00 karim   Building on two previous successful humanitarian medical missions, a team of the UAE Red Crescent sponsored ”The Giving Hands Initiative” arrived here today to conduct complicated surgeries on underprivileged children.  The voluntary team, made up of paediatricians from the world’s most recognised hospitals, will stay nine days in Eritrea... 

 By Tim Craig Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, December 10, 2008; Page B05     RICHMOND, Dec. 9 — One year after his sister was gunned down during the Virginia Tech massacre, 25-year-old Omar Samaha walked into a Richmond area gun show and was immediately greeted with offers from unlicensed gun dealers hawking their wares.   Samaha, who graduated from Virginia... 

Aman Tesfay, Dec 10, 2008 Food security in developing countries is facing a serious threat due to a number of factors – climate change, rising consumption and demand for biofuels. Most developing nations, even the fast developing ones, such as China and India, are net importers of food grains. They contain more than 850 million poor and hungry. The Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 25% of the world’s... 

Nahom Tekeste, Dec 10, 2008 Eritrea is one of the few third world countries that are expected to achieve the Millennium Development Goals on the health sector in general and child health in particular. The country has registered remarkable progress in child mortality rate over the last 17 years. “Substantial initiative and efficient implementation in child health services were achieved,”...