Month: July 2004

Monrovia, 26 July, 2004— As Liberia marked the 157th anniversary today of its independence, the top United Nations envoy for the West African nation congratulated it on the progress made since the end of a […]

New York, 26 July, 2004— United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan heads to Ghana this week for a summit with African leaders hoping to get the Côte d’Ivoire peace process back on track. The meeting, set […]

As South Africa celebrates 10 years of freedom, it also is being hailed by the international community as a model for other developing countries in providing rural water. By the end of this year, 10 […]

Could the world witness another mass slaughter like the one that claimed hundreds of thousands of Rwandans a decade ago? As commemorative meetings were held across the globe on 7 April to mark the tenth […]

Washington, 23 July, 2004— Both chambers of the U.S. Congress adopted concurrent resolutions July 22 condemning the continuing atrocities in the Darfur region of western Sudan as ”genocide” and asking the international community to join […]

Johannesburg, 23 July, 2004— Ten years after democracy, pervasive poverty and inequality characterise South Africa, according to a recent study. The report, ’Poverty and Inequality in South Africa 2004-2014’, focused on current trends and future […]

Nairobi, 23 July, 2004— The IMF has expressed ”guarded optimism” about the economic and political situation in the Republic of Congo (ROC), which is the fourth-largest producer of oil in sub-Saharan Africa. But IMF executive […]

Kampala, 23 July, 2004— Uganda’s northern region, the scene of a bitter 18-year old civil war between government forces and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels is experiencing a flicker of hope. Dozens of rebels […]