Month: January 2004

Cotonou, 29 January, 2004— The government of Benin has put on trial 27 of its own judges on charges of embezzling millions of dollars of state funds. They form part of a group of 99 […]

Johannesburg, 29 January, 2004— South Africa is concerned about the political and economic crisis unfolding in neighbouring Zimbabwe and is playing an active role in defusing the situation, a senior foreign affairs official told IRIN. […]

Brussels, 28 January, 2004— United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and European Union (EU) officials discussed in Brussels today the urgent need to support the Middle East peace process and assist the Palestinian Authority. Responding to […]

Johannesburg, 28 January, 2004— The number of people forecast to be in need of food aid in Zimbabwe over the next few months has risen dramatically to 7.5 million, up from an earlier estimate of […]

Dar-es-Salaam, 28 January, 2004— Lawyers representing detainees at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), in Arusha, northern Tanzania, began a three-day strike on Wednesday to protest ”a serious deterioration” of the rights of […]

Accra, 28 January, 2004— UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is Ghanaian, but that’s not the only reason that a new centre for training African peacekeeping troops, has been opened in the capital of his own […]

Luanda, 27 January, 2004— The World Bank is expected to release US $33 million to demobilise former fighters from both sides of Angola’s devastating civil war and reintegrate them into their communities, a World Bank […]

Paris, 27 January, 2004— Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced in Paris today that the United Nations will send a team to Iraq to explore the possibility of elections before the transfer of sovereignty as long as […]