Month: August 2004

Abidjan, 5 August, 2004— Many more bodies lie in the mass graves discovered near the rebel-held city of Korhogo in northern Cote d’Ivoire than the 99 revealed by a UN human rights team earlier this […]

Abidjan, 5 August, 2004— UN human rights experts have uncovered three mass graves packed with at least 99 bodies in the northern town of Korhogo where heavy clashes between rival rebel factions took place in […]

Nairobi, 5 August, 2004— With the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) set to close in 2010, and with more than half its cases yet to go to trial, the president of the UN Security […]

Johannewburg, 5 August, 2004— Pakistani authorities are ”processing” a South African government request to access two of its nationals who have reportedly confessed to planning terror attacks in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Pretoria. Pakistani Foreign […]

Nairobi, 5 August, 2004— The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today launched an emergency appeal for US$82 million for immediate food assistance to 2.3 million people affected by drought in Kenya. The announcement follows […]

Khartoum, 4 August, 2004— Thousands of protestors including Sudanese government ministers, religious leaders and students, marched on Wednesday through the streets of the capital, Khartoum, to demonstrate against ”foreign interference” in the troubled western Darfur […]

Nairobi, 4 August, 2004— A potential humanitarian crisis is looming in the Somali region of Ethiopia where the long rains have failed and up to 1.3 million people are likely to need emergency aid until […]

Dakar, 3 August, 2004— President Abdoulaye Wade has cancelled his summer holiday and set up an emergency task force to deal with a plague of locusts that threatens to invade the north of Senegal. Officials […]