Month: January 2004

Mumbai/Davos, 21 January, 2004— In India, a network of women slum dwellers is collaborating with UK engineers and a French water company to improve water delivery in their communities. In Ecuador, a consortium of European […]

Nairobi, 21 January, 2004— Gerhard Schroeder, the Chancellor of Germany, paid a visit to the United Nations in Nairobi, Kenya as part of a four-nation official tour of Africa. At the UN he met with […]

Arusha, 20 January, 2004— The commander of UN troops who were in Rwanda leading up to and during the 1994 genocide, Gen. Romeo Dallaire, testified on Monday before the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda […]

Abidjan, 19 January, 2004— As many as 30,000 former fighters could go through Cote d’Ivoire’s disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) programme, the head of the National DDR Committee, Alain Donwahi, said on Sunday. “We don’t […]

Johannesburg, 19 January, 2004— The South African cabinet is expected to endorse a plan to provide relief to more than four million people affected by one of the worst droughts in recent decades. Xolani Xundu, […]

Kampala, 19 January, 2004— The first 242 of some 25,000 Rwandan refugees living in Uganda returned home on Monday, under an agreement signed by the governments of the two countries and the Office of the […]

Berlin, 17 January, 2004— Germany‘s unique exhibition for agriculture, the food industry and horticulture, the International Green Week, opened in Berlin January 16. Recognised worldwide as a window for modern methods of agriculture, the ten-day […]

Bangui, 16 January, 2004— The Central African Republic’s (CAR) water utility, Sodeca, has resumed distribution of safe drinking water in the town of Bossangoa, where its equipment was looted or damaged during the six-month rebellion […]