Year: 2004

Baghdad, 20 December, 2004— Children play and sing songs around the tents they temporarily call home, as fathers queue to receive blankets from a local NGO. More than two weeks after major fighting ended in […]

Berlin, 15 December, 2004— Ambassador from the Southern African Development Co-operation (SADC) resident in Germany today presented a huge Christmas tree to the German Bundestag, (Parliament) in Berlin. In an address at the function, the […]

Addis Ababa, 14 December, 2004— One Ethiopian child out of 10 is an orphan, a report by the UN, the government and the NGO, Save the Children, said. The HIV/AIDS pandemic, appalling poverty and dire […]

Nairobi, 14 December, 2004— UN World Food Programme’s (WFP) director for East and Central Africa bureau, Holdbrook Arthur, was in Nairobi in early December for the launch of the Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP) for Somalia […]

Addis Ababa, 14 December, 2004— German President Horst Kohler made an impassioned plea on Monday for peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea, saying neither of the two countries could afford another war over their unresolved border […]

Abuja, 14 December, 2004— Peace talks to end the Darfur conflict were stalled on Tuesday after rebel groups withdrew in protest at ceasefire violations by the government in Khartoum. The Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) and […]

Nairobi, 14 December, 2004— The UN has strongly condemned the murder of two relief workers in the western Sudanese region of Darfur and called on the Khartoum government, rebels and militia to respect the principles […]

Washington, 14 December, 2004— Governments joined in the campaign against money laundering should cooperate to a greater degree in prosecuting criminals, fighting tax evasion, collecting data, and providing technical and financial assistance to poor countries […]