Month: November 2003

Washington, 3 November, 2003— ”In a changing world, Africa has acquired a different kind of importance in terms of issues relevant to the United States: energy, terrorism and trade,” stated Ambassador Princeton Lyman. Where previously […]

Luanda, 4 November– Organised returns from Zambia to Angola will be suspended next week as the onset of the rainy season renders roads impassable, said the UN refugee agency today. The last return convoy of […]

Abuja, 3 November, 2003— The head of the state company which oversees Nigeria’s oil industry was on Monday relieved of his job by President Olusegun Obasanjo. No reason was given for the dismissal, which was […]

Addis Ababa, 3 November, 2003— Ethiopia must privatise its land to help fight future famines, Andrew Natsios, the head of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), said on Saturday. He urged the government to […]

Abidjan, 3 November, 2003— Japan has given 1.4 billion FCFA (US $2.5 million) to Cote d’Ivoire to help establish a permanent schools-feeding programme that will enable thousands of poor children in rural areas to get […]

Monrovia, 3 November, 2003— Government schools in and around the Liberian capital Monrovia reopened on Monday for the first time in five months as the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)launched a ”Back to school” campaign […]

Nairobi, 3 November, 2003— Calm is returning to Kenya’s border with Ethiopia, following a weekend attack by suspected Ethiopian armed bandits, in which three people were killed. Kenya police spokesman King’ori Mwangi told IRIN that […]

Kigali, 3 November, 2003— The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has vowed to root out Rwandan Hutu rebels in eastern Congo in a bid to normalise relations between the two countries. ”We […]