Month: March 2004

Washington, 2 March, 2004— A newly concluded U.S.-Moroccan Free Trade Agreement will serve as a model for further trade accords in the Middle East and North Africa and contribute to a tremendous increase in commerce […]

Washington, 27 February, 2004— A color photograph in black and white — a South African immigrant and his albino son — a pieta with a black Mary cradling a sacrificial goat, a digitized print of […]

Conakry, 2 March, 2004— Guinean President Lansana Conte has sacked his prime minister, his powerful interior minister and his entire economic team in a two-stage cabinet reshuffle. The top-level changes follow Conte’s re-election for a […]

Kinshasa, 2 March, 2004— The World Bank has approved a US $200-million credit for the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), under its International Development Association (IDA) programme. The money would go […]

Bujumbura, 3 March, 2004— Rumonge District, in Burundi’s southern province of Bururi, has registered 93 cases of cholera resulting in four deaths since January, health services have reported. The director of Rumonge hospital, Dr Innocent […]

Bangui, 3 March, 2004— Residents in the western town of Bouar, the Central African Republic (CAR), have appealed to the government to help them access safe water in order to contain typhoid, which has been […]

Nairobi, 3 March, 2004— One million people are ”at imminent risk of life and livelihood” in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, due a lack of civil order and the ”refusal of local and national authorities […]

Nairobi, 3 March, 2004— The United Nations World Food Programme has given a warning that it will have to cut basic food rations to refugees throughout eastern and central Africa unless immediate donations are received. […]