Month: July 2004

Harare, 21 July, 2004—- The trial in Zimbabwe of 70 suspected mercenaries accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea has been postponed to Wednesday. Lawrence Phiri, the state prosecutor, said the defence lawyers had […]

Nairobi, 21 July, 2004— A day after the deadline for all Somali groups to show mediators at a reconciliation conference how they would share seats in a proposed parliament, delegates from two of the country’s […]

Monrovia, 21 July, 2004— UN peacekeepers are investigating reports of smuggling arms and the movement of combatants across Liberia’s international borders, General Joseph Owonibi, the deputy force commander of the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) […]

Kigali, 21 July, 2004— A UN panel has accused Rwanda’s government of supporting dissidents in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who seized the eastern town of Bukavu in June, and thus breaking an […]

Lahore, 21 July, 2004— Pakistani paramilitary forces have killed at least four Pakistani farmers, tortured dozens of others and arrested hundreds more in a violent dispute with tenant farmers over the ownership of fertile land […]

Kampala, 21 July, 2004 Officials of a Rwandan human rights organisation who recently fled to neighbouring Uganda, fearing for their lives following charges by a parliamentary commission that their organisation had a genocidal ideology, on […]

Washington, 20 July, 2004— The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved the First Poverty Reduction Support Credit* and Grant for a total value of US$125 million, and an additional US$50 million to supplement […]

Johannesburg, 20 July, 2004— Deadlocked negotiations between the representatives of Burundian political parties in Pretoria, South Africa, have been extended to Thursday. Henri Boshoff, an analyst with the Institute for Security Studies, a Pretoria-based think-tank, […]