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/ 13 September 2006
Children who had not been breastfed were more at risk during the diarrhoea outbreak of November 2005/February 2006 after major flooding in Botswana, says the United Kingdom-based National Aids Map organisation. In its September HIV and Aids treatment in practice newsletter, it said 470 children who were under five years old died in the 12 health districts of Botswana surveyed.
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/ 13 September 2006
The European Commission is to restrict the amount of liquids allowed in hand luggage for air passengers, in a new security measure, Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot said on Wednesday. ”Following the incidents of this summer we have sought to introduce a response proportional to the needs of security,” Barrot told reporters in Brussels.
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/ 13 September 2006
Police found dozens of bullet-riddled corpses in Baghdad on Wednesday, and two car bombs killed 28 people and wounded scores more in the Iraqi capital as a wave of sectarian violence ravaged the country. At least 69 bodies were recovered in the past 24 hours from across Iraq, including 64 from Baghdad, many of them shot dead execution-style, security officials said.
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/ 13 September 2006
Smokers who pop outside for a cigarette could still find themselves running foul of the law under new legislation being planned by the South African government, officials said on Wednesday. A Bill drafted by the ministry of health is looking to introduce a new offence of smoking outdoors within a prescribed distance from a window, ventilation outlet, doorway or entrance to a public place.
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/ 13 September 2006
Authorities in Zimbabwe staged a massive security operation on Wednesday in a bid to head off a series of banned protests against the economic crisis presided over by veteran President Robert Mugabe. Armed police fanned out across the capital, Harare, conducting body searches and spot checks of cars in scenes repeated in other major towns and cities throughout the country.
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/ 13 September 2006
Militiamen loyal to the fundamentalist Islamic group that appears determined to rule Somalia are advancing on one of the last-remaining commercial ports outside of their control, a European Union official said on Wednesday. Several hundred militiamen loyal to the Islamic group have been seen travelling to Kismayo, about 500km south of the capital, Mogadishu, the official and witnesses said.
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/ 13 September 2006
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has categorically denied persecuting his deputy, Atiku Abubakar, who is under investigation on charges of alleged corruption. ”Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has alleged political persecution and all sorts of things. That is far-fetched by all standards,” the Presidency said in Obasanjo’s first official statement on the issue late on Tuesday.
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/ 13 September 2006
The strikes conducted by the South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu) in 2006 came at a ”huge” financial cost, the union’s general secretary Randall Howard said on Wednesday. ”It [the cost] was huge, with the level of arrests and bailing out comrades and lawyers,” he said at Satawu’s second national congress in Johannesburg. He declined to mention a figure.
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/ 13 September 2006
A taxi drivers’ protest — part of a strike that left commuters in Soweto and Orange Farm without transport on Wednesday — was illegal, Johannesburg metro police said. ”They did not apply for permission to protest,” said Inspector Edna Mamonyane. On Wednesday morning drivers blocked roads in and around Soweto and forced commuters out of the few taxis that were travelling to Johannesburg.
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/ 13 September 2006
Bovine tuberculosis, an infectious disease mostly confined to cattle but now threatening wildlife around the world, is spreading among buffalo in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, an official said on Wednesday. Tests confirm more of the famed park’s estimated 32 000 buffalo have contracted the chronic wasting disease.