Month: January 2005

New York, 9 January, 2005— Hailing today’s signing of a comprehensive peace agreement formally ending Sudan’s long and devastating war, Secretary-General Kofi Annan pledged to quickly outline plans for a United Nations operation there but […]

Washington/Nairobi, 9 January, 2005— President Bush has congratulated the Sudanese government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement for signing a peace agreement January 9 that moves closer to ending a decades-long civil war in that […]

Washington, 9 January, 2005— The Iraqi people must be given the opportunity to choose how they will be governed through democratic elections, even though such elections will not suddenly end the insurgency there, Secretary of […]

Rome, 7 January, 2005— Despite recent improvements the locust threat remains serious in western Africa, vigilance and intensive control operations are still needed, and it will take another three months before the scale of any […]

Washington, 7 January, 2005— The massive tsunami in the Indian Ocean that inundated many countries in Southeast and South Asia December 26, 2004, has also had effects as far away as East Africa, touching primarily […]

Washington, 7 January, 2005— An exhibition of 400-year-old Islamic manuscripts from Timbuktu that was originally mounted at the Library of Congress in 2003 will be featured in Jackson, Mississippi, in fall 2005 before circulating around […]

New York, 4 January, 2005— Expressing concern over the deaths of seven Palestinian civilians during Israeli military operations in northern Gaza Strip on Monday after Palestinians there launched rocket attacks, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan […]

Washington, 4 January, 2005— The preparations for the January 30 Iraqi legislative elections differ from early democratic experiences in other transitional countries in that the process in Iraq is entirely managed and controlled by Iraqi […]