Month: November 2003

Nairobi, 27 November, 2003— South African President Thabo Mbeki is scheduled to host a Great Lakes summit on Thursday, to review progress made in a 30 July 2002 agreement between the Democratic Republic of the […]

Abidjan, 26 November, 2003– President Laurent Gbagbo flew to Burkina Faso for talks with President Blaise Compaore on Wednesday to try and put Cote d’Ivoire’s deadlocked peace process back on track. Gbagbo has consistently accused […]

Washington, 25 November, 2003— Senior U.S. officials have welcomed an agreement with European colleagues on a draft International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors resolution warning Iran over its nuclear program. The resolution, reached […]

Johannesburg, 25 November, 2003— Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe will not attend the upcoming Commonwealth summit in Nigeria next month, ending weeks of speculation that the government’s last-minute attempts might secure him an invitation. ”We will […]

Abidjan, 25 November, 2003— UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has warned that Cote d’Ivoire could ”slip back into conflict” as five West African governments began lobbying for a fully fledged UN peacekeeping force to be […]

Nairobi, 25 November, 2003— International oil companies in Sudan share full responsibility with the Sudanese government for the displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilians from oil concession areas, as well as countless other human […]

Bujumbura, 25 November, 2003— At the end of a six-day mission to Burundi, members of a delegation of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) pledged on Tuesday to lobby donors to resume aid to […]

Paris, 26 November, 2003— Twenty five million dollars is urgently needed to lift the threat of imminent extinction from humankind’s closest living relatives, delegates to an international crisis meeting on the great apes were told […]