Month: June 2004

Johannesburg, 25 June, 2004— New anti-corruption legislation, effective from this week, which formalises regulations allowing Zimbabwean police to hold suspects accused of economic crimes for up to four weeks without bail is ”unconstitutional”, human rights […]

Nairobi, 25 June, 2004— Eighty percent of Malakal’s 120,000 residents and most of the 35,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in and around the town have no clean drinking water, according to the UN. The town’s […]

Nairobi, 24 June, 2004— The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, will open an investigation into alleged war crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1 July 2002. Moreno-Ocampo […]

Nairobi, 23 June, 2004— Epidemiologists warned on Tuesday that west and central Africa were on the brink of ”the largest polio epidemic in recent years”, as confirmation was received that the Darfur region of western […]

Nairobi, 23 June, 2004— Kevin Kennedy, is the outgoing acting UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan. In an interview with IRIN on 20 June, he talked about the humanitarian situation in Darfur, the prospect of hundreds […]

Mbabane, 21 June, 2004— High school girls who fall pregnant will no longer be expelled from their schools, the Swaziland Schools Headteachers Association resolved last week. The policy change overturns what has been standard practice […]

Lusaka, 23 June, 2004— Zambia is set to boost export earnings from hydropower generation once a new US $12 million power transmission line to neighbouring Namibia is completed by next year, according to news reports. […]

Abuja, 22 June, 2004— Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo pledged US $2.5 million to help fund a feasibility study on how to replenish the fast-depleting Lake Chad with water from the River Congo at the opening […]