Month: August 2003

Kinshasa– UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers arrived today in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), kicking off a four-nation visit to review UNHCR’s operations and various peace initiatives […]

New York– After observing a minute of silence for those who died in Baghdad in the pursuit of peace, the Security Council August 20 ”unequivocally condemned” the terrorist attack on U.N. headquarters and vowed to […]

Abidjan– Food crop prospects in nine West African Sahelian countries are mixed with delayed onset of rainfall in Cape Verde, large-scale outbreak of grasshoppers in Guinea-Bissau, grain-eating birds in Mali and desert locusts in Niger, […]

Lagos– Nigeria has signed a deal to supply Cote d’Ivoire 30,000 barrels of crude oil daily to block illegal supplies after it traced stolen crude oil from its Niger Delta oilfields to an Ivorian refinery, […]

Addis Ababa– Ethiopia has pledged to send troops under the United Nations peacekeeping umbrella to help maintain order in war-torn Liberia, defence officials said on Wednesday. Ethiopian Defence Minister Abadula Gemeda told the country’s parliament […]

Abidjan– The Ivorian government has ordered the reintegration into the national armed forces of all soldiers who had taken up arms against the state and later deserted army ranks, the defense ministry announced on state-run […]

Johannesburg– Aid groups in Zimbabwe were awaiting clarification of a directive issued by the government that would see the distribution of international food aid shift from relief agencies to local government and village authorities. The […]

Kinshasa– President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) named on Tuesday the officers who will lead the nation’s unified national military, incorporating elements from all former armed rebel groups signatory to […]