Month: October 2003

New York, 27 October, 2003– United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called the bombing of the Red Cross office in Baghdad a ”crime against humanity,” and condemned all of today’s attacks throughout the Iraqi capital. […]

New York, 27 October, 2003– The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously today to increase the number of short-term judges on the war crimes tribunal for Rwanda. The Council agreed to a resolution backing a […]

KAMPALA, 28 October, 2003– The United States embassy in Uganda has confirmed that it is offering military aid to the Ugandan defence ministry to help it fight the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency in the […]

Monrovia, 27 October, 2003– Liberia’s transitional leader, Gyude Bryant, has agreed to review some of the nominees for senior government appointments that he rejected last week, the speaker of Parliament, George Dweh, said. The move […]

Johannesburg, 27 October, 2003– Ongoing drought will have a ”dramatic impact” on the humanitarian situation in Lesotho and the World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that between 600,000 and 700,000 people could be in need […]

ANKARA, 27 October, 2003— A recent typhoid outbreak in the capital, Dushanbe – one of the largest outbreaks to strike the country in years – is now under control, according to a World Health Organisation […]

KAMPALA, 27 October 2003– The Ugandan health ministry made its first ever clear commitment on Sunday to buying cheap generic copies of anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs. ”We have a law in place that allows us to […]

Nairobi, 27 October, 2003– A barge carrying 102.5 mt of aid supplies provided by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and financed with US $522,000 from the Belgian government left Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic […]