Month: December 2003

Addis Ababa, 17 December, 2003— China-Africa summit ended in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Tuesday with promises of trade deals, debt reduction and increase in political cooperation. Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhoaxing told journalists […]

Accra, 18 December, 2003— West African leaders will focus on efforts to resolve a string of conflicts in the region when they meet in the Ghanaian capital Accra for their annual summit on Friday. They […]

Nairobi, 18 December, 2003— The UN World Food Programme warned today that more than one million people are now displaced by the conflict in Greater Darfur, western Sudan, and are in desperate need of food […]

Algiers, 16 December, 2003— The success of an environmental plan for African countries is essential to the continent’s development, a senior United Nations official told a two-day meeting which opened today in Algiers. Klaus Töepfer, […]

Washington, 17 December, 2003— The recently completed European Union (EU) summit, Iran, Iraq, and the Middle East peace process were the subjects under discussion when Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and European Union High […]

Washington, 17 December, 2003— U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Andrew Natsios singled out President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda as the type of leader Africa needs now in order to take full advantage of […]

Addis Ababa, 18 December, 2003— An independent boundary commission set up to rule on the frontier between Ethiopia and Eritrea has begun scaling down staff, the UN said on Thursday. Gail Bindley Taylor Sainte, spokeswoman […]

Lagos, 17 December, 2003— Ethnic loathing may have been the spur to the ferocious violence between rival ethnic militias in Nigeria’s Niger Delta this year, but the object was control of government resources and money […]