Month: December 2004

Washington, 28 December, 2004— The United States is providing funds, disaster assistance experts, and relief supplies to help victims of the earthquake and subsequent tsunamis that occurred in the Indian Ocean December 26, according to […]

Washington, 28 December, 2004— With the world’s attention fixed on the tragic events unfolding in South Asia, global-warming scientists have been quick to link claimed climate change to the tsunamis that have left at least […]

Washington, 22 December, 2004— Naysayers, who for years have predicted the political collapse of Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, have been proven wrong time and again because they underestimate the strength of its “unique” federal […]

New York, 26 December, 2004— United Nations relief experts are headed to Sri Lanka to help coordinate the international response to the massive tidal waves that struck the Indian Ocean nation after a series of […]

Monrovia, 21 December, 2004— Liberia’s National Elections Commission has announced that voter registration for next year’s presidential elections will start in April, but the independent body has warned that it will need US$17.5 million to […]

Abuja, 21 December, 2004— African Union mediators said on Tuesday that faltering peace talks between the Sudanese government and rebels in the country’s western Darfur region had been suspended until January. The move followed several […]

New York, 21 December, 2004— Stressing the importance of demarcating a final acceptable border between two Horn of Africa countries, the United Nations Security Council today said it was encouraged by Ethiopia’s announcement that it […]

New York, 21 December, 2004— Seeking to put behind a difficult 12 months of controversy surrounding the United Nations, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today looked ahead towards 2005 as a year of opportunity to bring peace […]