Month: July 2004

Addis Ababa, 1 July, 2004— The chairman of the African Union (AU) has called on the international community to ”trust” Africa’s leaders to solve the continent’s many crises. In an upbeat message on Wednesday, Alpha […]

Nairobi, 1 July, 2004— Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has brought in several opposition politicians into his administration by way of a reshuffle, saying he wanted to form a government of national unity that would be […]

Johannesburg, 1 July, 2004— President Thabo Mbeki is to visit the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) shortly in a bid to bolster the country’s troubled peace process. A recent coup attempt and tension between the […]

Kigali, 1 July, 2004— Four people have died and 540 others have been hospitalised following an outbreak of typhoid fever in northwestern Rwanda, Desire Ndushabandi, the health ministry’s secretary-general, told IRIN on Thursday. ”We have […]

Nairobi, 1 July, 2004— Poor rainfall has dulled prospects for the 2004 agricultural season in many of Eritrea’s regions, leading to increasing shortages of water and food items, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) […]

Nairobi, 1 July, 2004— UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who arrived in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, on Wednesday, has discussed the situation in the western region of Darfur with government, UN and NGO officials, ahead of […]