Month: October 2004

New York, 25 October, 2004 – All sides to the conflict engulfing Sudan’s Darfur region should take advantage of the momentum generated by international focus on the region and settle their political differences at peace […]

Rome, 25 October, 2004- – The swarms of desert locusts devouring pastures and cropland across West Africa have finally started to decline in the Sahel zone after pesticide operations were stepped up there over the […]

Rome, 25 October, 2004- – Severe funding shortages has forced the United Nations emergency feeding agency to cut rations to some 400,000 Burundian and Congolese refugees living in western Tanzania. The World Food Programme (WFP) […]

Dakar, 24 October, 2004- – Nigeria has failed to agree on a new date for handing over the disputed Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon after refusing to withdraw from the potentially oil-rich territory by the original […]

Dakar, 24 October, 2004 – Seydou Diarra has announced that he plans to stay on as the prime minister of Cote d’Ivoire’s broad-based government of national reconciliation, despite a call from President Laurent Gbagbo’s Ivorian […]

Berlin, 24 October, 2004- – Parliamentarians from 25 African countries met their counterparts from the European Union to debate the concept of good governance and accountability. The two-day event (October 21-22) themed: ’’Good Governance in […]

New York, 21 October, 2004- – A senior United Nations relief official today called on the international community to get more involved in the nearly two-decade-old conflict in northern Uganda. “Where else in the world […]

Washington, 21 October, 2004- – ”We are at an extraordinary juncture in the relationship between the United States and the continent of Africa,” says South African Ambassador Barbara Masekela. ”Never before has there been such […]