Africa

Washington, 1 August– Former Liberian presidential candidate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, citing the continuing violence that is ravaging Monrovia, characterized the ongoing peace talks in Accra between the various factions in Liberia’s civil war as disturbing […]

Washington, 1 August– When a united African intervention force enters Liberia to stop the violence there it will have a greater chance of success, in part, because of U.S. training partnerships aimed at enhancing the […]

Monrovia/Accra, 1 August– Liberian President Charles Taylor disappeared from public view on Friday, leaving West African envoys who had come to discuss his departure into exile in Nigeria, waiting in vain to meet him. Ghanaian […]

Bangui, 1 August– The north of the Central African Republic has been declared safe, and all major transport routes are now open, following a joint security operation by the national army and peacekeepers from the […]

Johannesburg, 1 August– Church mediators on Friday dismissed accusations by a senior government official who claimed they were politically biased and unable to play the role of ”honest broker” between Zimbabwe’s two rival parties. The […]

Nairobi, 1 August– Between 300,000 and 364,000 people have been affected by severe floods in Kassala, eastern Sudan, with damage ranging from flooded ground floors in buildings to homes being submerged or washed away, the […]

Nairobi, 1 August– Ambassador Bethwel Kiplagat, the chairman of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) technical committee and Kenya’s special envoy to the Somali peace talks, told a press conference on Friday that the Somali […]

Accra/Monrovia, 31 July– West African leaders pledged on Thursday to send the Nigerian vanguard of a multinational peacekeeping force into war-torn Liberia by Monday at the latest. President Charles Taylor would step down and leave […]