Month: January 2004

Accra, 25 January, 2004— With the United Nations being asked to shoulder ever more peacekeeping responsibility, especially in Africa, countries must provide greater support for missions, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today in a message to […]

Lagos, 25 January, 2004— When a student-led Islamic sect launched an armed uprising last month with the aim of setting up a Taliban-style Muslim state in northern Nigeria, the authorities were swift to quell the […]

Kinshasa, 23 January, 2004— The UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, MONUC, is to send a team to investigate a reported massacre in Ituri District, eastern DRC, a MONUC official told IRIN. According […]

Nairobi, 23 January, 2004— The rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) has begun to demobilise a large number of child soldiers in the volatile western Upper Nile region of the south, according to the United […]

Davos, 23 January, 2004— Five years after urging business leaders to join his initiative to encourage good corporate practices as a response to the challenges brought on by globalization, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today […]

Johannesburg, 21 January, 2004— Trade unionists in Zambia have threatened industrial action if the government goes ahead with plans to impose a six-month wage freeze on civil servants’ salaries. Earlier this month the authorities said […]

Nairobi, 21 January, 2004— German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder today pledged to triple his country’s support for the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (HABITAT) to €500,000 (euros) for core funding to the agency. The pledge, made […]

Baden-Baden, 21 January, 2004— After a year in which Iraq monopolized worldwide attention, the international community should concentrate in 2004 on priorities such as fighting poverty, bolstering the system of collective security and rebuilding trust […]