Month: January 2005

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 […]

Dakar, 4 January, 2005— West Africa’s central bank enrolled town criers, UN peacekeepers and even desert pilots as it pulled out all the stops for an unprecedented 10-week campaign to swap old bank-notes for new […]

Abidjan, 4 January, 2005— The number of recorded cases of polio in Cote d’Ivoire shot up to 17 in 2004 from just one the previous year and the real situation on the ground may be […]

Nairobi, 4 January, 2005— The tsunami triggered by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean that struck the Horn of Africa coastline just over a week ago has affected about 18,000 households of varying sizes in […]