Month: November 2003

Bamako, 28 November, 2003— President Laurent Gbagbo flew to Bamako on Friday for talks on the deadlocked peace process in Cote d’Ivoire as reports emerged of further clashes between farmers of Gbagbo’s Bete tribe and […]

Johannesburg, 28 November, 2003— President Robert Mugabe warned on Friday that Zimbabwe could leave the Commonwealth if it was not treated as an equal, but failed to win the backing of a troika of Southern […]

Baghdad/Washington, 27 November, 2003— President Bush made a surprise Thanksgiving Day visit to U.S. troops in Baghdad November 27, flying secretly on Air Force One to Baghdad International Airport, where he spent two and a […]

Nairobi, 27 November, 2003— Some US $149 million of missing state funds traced to the family of the late Nigerian military ruler Sani Abacha have been returned to the Nigerian government by Jersey, an offshore-banking […]

Nairobi, 28 November, 2003— Over the last five days, 210 people have been killed in fighting between militias and a rebel group on the outskirts of Junaynah, western Darfur, according to a local rebel group. […]

Monrovia, 27 November, 2003— The three warring parties in Liberia walked out of talks on disarmament with the United Nations on Thursday after demanding dozens more government jobs in return for handing in their guns. […]

Johannesburg, 27 November, 2003— Political tension simmering between leaders in Comoros came to a head on Wednesday when government troops reportedly opened fire on a group of demonstrators protesting the policies of the country’s president, […]

Washington, 26 November, 2003— The government of Chad and Esso Explorations & Production Chad Inc. have confirmed that $6.5 million from the first sale of crude oil from Chad’s Doba oil fields has been deposited […]