Mobile broadband can help Africa reach Millennium Development Goals, says Hamadoun Touré
He argues that broadband can teach children information technology skills
Mobile technology is transforming healthcare and banking, Touré says
Editor's note: Dr Hamadoun Touré is secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union -- the U.N.'s specialized agency for information and communication technologies.
Mozambique struggles after onslaught of two Indian Ocean storms
Tropical depression hit southern Mozambique last week; cyclone now lashing central coast
The main highway to the northern part of the nation is cut off by floodwaters
Cyclone Funso forecast to strengthen as it meanders south through Mozambique Channel
NEW: Hurricane Frank is about 380 miles
south of Baja California, with 80 mph winds
It is expected to gradually weaken starting
Friday
Two Frank-related mudslides caused four
deaths in southern Mexico's Oaxaca state
Frank is the third hurricane in the Pacific
Ocean in 2010
(CNN) -- As Hurricane Frank gained strength
far from land over the Pacific Ocean on Thursday morning, southern Mexico
dealt with the aftermath of the system's assault on the mainland earlier
in the week.
Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- A magnitude 5.3
earthquake hit southern Iran on Saturday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey
said, a day after another moderate quake in the country's northeast left
170 people injured.
There were no immediate reports of damage
or injuries from Saturday's earthquake that struck about 60 miles (95 kilometers)
south of Kerman, the USGS said.
New York (CNN) -- An international advocacy
group is warning that 1.5 million to 2 million southern Sudanese now living
in the northern part of their country could face persecution if the south
approves a referendum next year to secede.
Refugees International said in a new
report that the issue of post-referendum citizenship was not being adequately
addressed by international organizations involved in the country, including
the United Nations and the American government.
There is a dangerous possibility, the
report said, that the issue will "not rise to the same level of importance
Quakes were clustered within 90 kilometers
of each other
(CNN) -- A power string of six earthquakes
shook the northern coast of Papua, Indonesia, Wednesday, killing at least
two people and causing widespread damage on Yapen Island, officials said.
At the central plaza in Port-au-Prince,
now home to thousands of displaced Haitians, water pelted rows of tents,
seeping inside from every direction Monday night. At the Champs de Mars
people tried to close shut entrances, some with thin cotton sheets or blankets.
Mothers rushed to move children sleeping on the ground.
Suddenly, the constant noise of the street
came to a halt, replaced by the thud of monstrous drops falling hard from
the sky. The only welcomed sight: gleeful children cooling off after another
scorching day.
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UNITED NATIONS (CNN) --
United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan has approved an Iraqi
humanitarian
aid plan, ending a two-month stalemate during which
Iraq kept
its oil off the world market.
U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said Monday that Annan
had
notified
the Iraqi government that its plan was approved after
receiving
written assurances that disabled children and other
"vulnerable
DHAKA, Bangladesh (CNN) -- Flooding
that has killed at least 291 people in Bangladesh and India has brought
an epidemic of sickness caused by polluted water and rotting food.
"The disease is spreading fast,
with hundreds of people falling ill each day. We don't have enough doctors
to treat the victims or sufficient funds to sink new (wells) for drinking
water," an official in the Bangladeshi district of Dinajpur said Sunday.
The floods, caused by two weeks of monsoon
rains, sank 18 fishing trawlers Friday, killing at least 16 people and
leaving 100 missing, survivors said.
"We're not excluding any type of assistance
which can help us stop the killings."
-- Burundian Prime Minister Antoine
Nduwayo
BUJUMBURA, Burundi (CNN) -- Concerned
about what seems to be a frantic arms race among Burundi's ethnic factions,
the country's rival leaders have, for the first time, appealed for international
help to avert a replay of the genocide that left many thousands in neighboring
Rwanda dead.
The appeal came at a six-nation conference
called to prevent Burundi's Hutus and Tutsis from plunging into full-scale
