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Buchanan, 20 April, 2004— Men women and child fighters from the Movement for Democracy in Liberia (MODEL) lined up peacefully to hand in their weapons on Tuesday as the UN peacekeepers opened a second disarmament […]

Kampala, 20 April, 2004— A south Sudanese militia group has vowed to wage all out-war against Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in apparent retaliation for LRA attacks against civilians inside Sudan. In a statement […]

Nairobi, 20 April, 2004— The Somali reconciliation conference sponsored by the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) is scheduled to reconvene in a week’s time, according to an IGAD source close to the talks. Preparations for […]

Bgarnga, 19 April, 2004— Former fighters of Liberia’s LURD rebel movement say they are happy enough to hand over their guns to UN peacekeeping troops, but many grumble that they have been forgotten and abandoned […]

Addis Ababa, 19 April, 2004— The United Nations has warned of the dangers of landmines in Ethiopia, ahead of a high-level workshop aiming to highlight the risks these ”brutal weapons” pose. Bjorn Ljungqvist, the UN […]

Addis Ababa, 19 April, 2004— Widespread rains have begun falling across Ethiopia as the country emerges from a two-year drought that affected 13 million people. Humanitarian agencies said the rains, known as the Belg or […]

Johannesburg, 19 April, 2004— Crop losses due to heavy rains has jeopardised the food security of more than 300,000 families in the central Angolan province of Huambo, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) […]

New York, 19 April, 2004— The United Nations today reported transferring $500 million in surplus money from its now-defunct Oil-for-Food programme to the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI). The transfer comes as part of a […]