Month: August 2004

New York, 3 August, 2004— The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today said it was seeking an additional $8 million to bolster its ability to help women and youngsters in drought-affected areas across Kenya, where […]

New York, 3 August, 2004— A human rights team sent to investigate gross violations during clashes between rival groups of the main national opposition party in northern Côte d’Ivoire has found three mass graves containing […]

New York, 3 August, 2004— Sudan is indicating it wants to comply with the Security Council’s demand that it show progress in meeting its dual pledges to disarm the armed militias that have conducted deadly […]

Asmara, 3 August, 2004— Some 1.9 million Eritreans who are currently in need of food aid could suffer even more because the world has shifted its focus to other crises such as Darfur in western […]

Nairobi, 3 August, 2004— The nutritional situation in southern Sudan has improved but it remains above emergency levels due to food shortages, inadequate health services, poor childcare practices and lack of water and sanitation services, […]

New York, 2 August, 2004— Just back from a week-long mission to Sudan’s troubled Darfur region – scene of what is currently considered the world’s worst humanitarian crisis – a United Nations rights expert today […]

Washington, 2 August, 2004— Calling the new information ”chilling” in scope, senior U.S. intelligence officials provided more details on the intelligence that led the Department of Homeland Security to raise the threat level for the […]

Dakar, 2 August, 2004— France has deployed 200 of its troops based in Chad to the country’s eastern border to help prevent incursions by Janjawid militia groups from Sudan’s troubled Darfur region. It has also […]