Month: May 2005

Mbabane, 30 May, 2005— Creating more business opportunities to counter rising unemployment is expected to take centre stage at an upcoming jobs summit in Swaziland. The summit, scheduled to take place in July, follows a […]

Bulawayo, 30 May, 2005— Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has endorsed an ongoing crackdown by the police on illegal settlements and the parallel economy in a controversial campaign to clean-up the country’s major towns and cities […]

Kigali, 30 May, 2005— Rwandan President Paul Kagame said on Friday that his government welcomes a recent conciliatory declaration by a Rwandan Hutu rebel group based in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). However, he […]

Addis Ababa, 30 May, 2005— Ethiopia’s ruling party has taken the majority of seats in recent parliamentary elections but suffered large losses to opposition groups, provisional results from the electoral board showed on Monday. After […]

Dar es Salaam, 30 May, 2005— Rwanda could be admitted to the East African Community (EAC) by the end of this year, according to a directive by the heads of state of Kenya, Tanzania and […]

Khartoum, 27 May, 2005— United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum today for a visit that will also take him to the troubled Darfur region, a day after he urged […]

Washington, 27 May, 2005— The goal of U.S. foreign policy, says Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, is not to impose democracy on others but to create conditions of “openness” around states that “encourage and nurture […]

Berlin, 25 May, 2005— Africa Day, the day set aside to commemorate the establishment of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and now the Africa Union (AU) was celebrated in Berlin in grand style today. […]