en-us http://www.newsique.com/tags/world/delta/ Get Informed. Choose Your News. http://www.newsique.com/world/burma_storm_aid_frustrations_gro/ Top aid envoys are ramping up pressure on Burma, as reports from the country suggest aid is still not reaching the region worst hit by Cyclone Nargis. A BBC reporter visiting the Irrawaddy Delta said there was little sign of help from the government, w news world 2008-05-16 08:16:34 http://www.newsique.com/world/burma_storm_aid_frustrations_gro/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/asia-pacific/7403997.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Interesting [6] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/burma_storm_aid_frustrations_gro/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/un_head_tours_cyclone-hit_burma/ UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has arrived in cyclone-hit Burma to tour the devastated Irrawaddy Delta and meet military ruler Gen Than Shwe. Mr Ban hopes to persuade the government to accept more aid for cyclone victims. Burma's rulers have block news world 2008-05-22 08:22:09 http://www.newsique.com/world/un_head_tours_cyclone-hit_burma/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/asia-pacific/7414015.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/un_head_tours_cyclone-hit_burma/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/cyclone_nargis_was_asias_perfect/ When the storm made landfall early Saturday at the mouth of the Irrawaddy River, its battering winds pushed a wall of water as high as 12 feet some 25 miles inland, laying waste to villages and killing tens of thousands. Victims lived in the low-lying news world 2008-05-09 08:22:08 http://www.newsique.com/world/cyclone_nargis_was_asias_perfect/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24526960/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/cyclone_nargis_was_asias_perfect/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/uk_toddler_abducted_in_nigeria/ The three-year-old daughter of an expatriate worker said to be British has been kidnapped by gunmen in the Niger Delta, Nigerian police have said. The toddler was seized from a car on her way to school in the oil city of Port Harcourt in the early morn news world 2007-07-05 08:19:18 http://www.newsique.com/world/uk_toddler_abducted_in_nigeria/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/6272676.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/uk_toddler_abducted_in_nigeria/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/oil_pledge_from_nigeria_presiden/ Nigeria's newly sworn-in president has said the troubled Niger Delta will receive his "urgent attention". In his inaugural speech, Umaru Yar'Adua called for an end to violence in the oil-rich but under-developed area which has led to a 25% cut in oil p news world 2007-05-29 20:17:58 http://www.newsique.com/world/oil_pledge_from_nigeria_presiden/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/6702287.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/oil_pledge_from_nigeria_presiden/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/chris_mcgreal/ Somewhere in the Niger delta, a score of fit young men grasp colonial-era British rifles, Kalashnikovs and a couple of heavy machine guns. Gun posts face the water to guard the rudimentary military camp with its wooden barracks, cookhouse and the only gen news world 2007-05-10 09:18:32 http://www.newsique.com/world/chris_mcgreal/ Guardian Unlimited http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2076292,00.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/guardian/ 92 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/chris_mcgreal/#comments