Month: April 2004

Dakar, 23 April, 2004— The food security situation in the interior of Liberia is serious, but less alarming than previously feared, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP). ”From assessments in Bong, Margibi and […]

Johannesburg, 23 April, 2004— The South African government expressed concern this week after a news report highlighted the story of a young woman who admitted she was thinking of contracting the HI virus to access […]

Nairobi, 23 April, 2004— Ethiopia has become the 13th country to obtain debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative of the World Bank and IMF, the World Bank reported on Thursday. It […]

Nairobi, 23 April, 2004— Congolese illegal diamond miners recently expelled from Angola have attacked Angolan refugees in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), prompting the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to […]

Kinshasa, 23 April, 2004— Officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo began on Thursday a programme to disarm, demobilise and reintegrate some 330,000 former combants in the east of the country. ”We are obviously […]

Washington, 25 April, 2004— The policy-making group of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged developed and developing countries alike to take advantage of improved global economic conditions to ”strengthen the foundation” for economic growth. […]

New York, 23 April, 2004— With child trafficking affecting more African countries than any other type of trafficking, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today called on governments, law enforcement officials, education authorities, local communities […]

New York, 23 April, 2004— The top United Nations envoy for the Middle East, Terje Roed-Larsen, gave the Security Council a cautiously upbeat assessment today of developments in the area, now poised between choosing a […]