Month: June 2004

Bujumbura, 21 June, 2004— A team of five Indian surgeons and 16 other medical personnel began on Monday operating on hundreds of Burundians suffering from glaucoma and cataract. ”About 800 patients will be operated within […]

Ivanovka, 21 June, 2004— There was a sense of optimism in the air in a public park on Sunday as Tajiks refugees in the town of Ivanovka, near the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, marked World Refugee […]

Nairobi, 21 June, 2004— The humanitarian crisis in Darfur, western Sudan, dominated questions and comments from members of the UN Security Council following a briefing on Thursday by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Ruud […]

Addis Ababa, 21 June, 2004— The Eritrean government has offered to send one of its officials to meet with United Nations Special Envoy, Lloyd Axworthy, who is trying to resolve the border dispute between Eritrea […]

Nairobi, 21 June, 2004— A harsh drought has led to critical drinking-water shortages in several Eritrean regions, including Anseba, Southern Red Sea and Northern Red Sea, the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs […]

Berlin, 20 June, 2004— The Ethiopian Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, His Excellency Mr Hiruy Amanuel, hosted a reception here recently to mark Ethiopia‘s national holiday. The reception, held in the court yard […]

Johannesburg, 18 June, 2004— An initiative to build collaboration between government and NGOs to fight human trafficking will be launched at a conference in South Africa next week, according to the activist body, War Against […]

New York, 18 June, 2004— United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Thursday he was planning to travel to strife-torn Sudan, adding that the UN was pressing the Khartoum government to allow humanitarian workers freer […]