Month: September 2004

Washington, 12 September, 2004— Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave a National Press Club audience an upbeat assessment of the prospects for a democratic Iraq, but conceded he does not know how long it will […]

Washington, 12 September, 2004— International cooperation will be needed to resolve the situation in Sudan, just as multilateral efforts have proven vital in addressing the challenge of Iran’s and North Korea’s nuclear activities, in rebuilding […]

Washington, 9 September, 2004— key U.S. Army general who investigated abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq says prisoner abuse was not the result of military doctrine, and that abuse would not have occurred […]

Washington, 9 September, 2004— In testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee September 9, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell declared the actions of the Sudanese government and its proxies, the Jingaweit militias, against the […]

Abidjan, 9 September, 2004— The civil war in Cote d’Ivoire has wrecked the country’s school system. Even though there has been no fighting for the past 16 months, most teachers drawing government salaries have refused […]

Nairobi, 9 September, 2004— The United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) said on Thursday there was ”no light at the end of the tunnel” in the stalled peace process between the two countries. […]

Kampala, 6 September, 2004— The World Bank has given Uganda a total of US $257 million in grants and loans to fund poverty alleviation and road improvement projects in the East African country, the bank […]

Mbabane, 6 September, 2004— Swazi traditional healers emphasised the need to integrate their services into the formal healthcare system at a recent World Health Organisation (WHO) workshop in the capital, Mbabane. ”We are tired of […]