Month: July 2004

Dakar, 22 July, 2004— The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Wednesday it had completed a three-year repatriation operation which helped 178,000 Sierra Leonean refugees to go home after the country’s civil war. The […]

Nairobi, 22 July, 2004— The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has implemented ”far-reaching structural reforms”, according to an IMF study issued this month, but it also predicts that the country will […]

Johannesburg, 22 July, 2004— South African peacekeeping troops are to stay on in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Eritrea for another year, a government official told IRIN. ”The extension to the troop deployment […]

Johannesburg, 22 July, 2004— South Africa’s Deputy President Jacob Zuma will arrive in the Burundian capital, Bujumbura, on Monday next week, in what analysts describe as an attempt to ”salvage” a post-poll power-sharing agreement reached […]

Conakry, 22 July, 2004— ster Sidya Toure has been cleared of plotting to overthrow the government by an appeal court judge, three months after the charges were first laid against him. Toure who now heads […]

Nairobi, 22 July, 2004— United Nations agencies need over US $200 million and equipment like helicopters to provide urgently needed humanitarian aid in western Sudan’s Darfur region. So far, they had received just $145 million […]

Accra, 21 July, 2004— Drinking water in Ghana comes in plastic bags not bottles. And these bags are the bane of Korkor Ocansey’s life. Ocansey owns a fabric store in the business district of the […]

Lome, 20 July, 2004— Need a taxi in Togo? Climb aboard a Zemidjan ”Take Me Quickly” motorbike and get to your destination faster than you would do in a car. These small motorbikes which take […]