Month: February 2005

New York/Monrovia, 15 February, 2005— In a vote of confidence for Liberia’s peace process, refugees have begun returning home to Lofa county, the hardest-hit area during the West African country’s 14-year civil war, with the […]

New York, 11 February, 2005— Following a deadly clash today in Togo’s turbulent capital, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan called on those responsible to reign in their actions. The security situation is deteriorating in the […]

Munich, 13 February, 2005— Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on officials gathered at a leading international forum in Germany to support efforts to strengthen the United Nations so that its system of collective security can […]

New York, 10 February, 2005— Senior U.S. officials have been meeting with members of the Security Council to work out a way to bring to trial those accused of human rights abuses and war crimes […]

Washington, 10 February, 2005— Northern Uganda, which has been torn by decades of fighting between the Ugandan government and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), has perhaps its best chance for peace in the last 18 […]

Washington, 10 February, 2005— A little more than a year after signing legislation to establish a new museum under the Smithsonian Institution for African American history and culture, President Bush pledged that he and first […]

Lome, 8 February, 2005— Normal business in Togo slowed down on Tuesday but did not come to a complete standstill after an opposition call for a two-day general strike to protest against Faure Gnassingbe seizing […]

New York, 8 February, 2005— The top United Nations envoy for Sudan today painted a ”dismal picture” of the situation in the Darfur region, even if not as bad as in early 2004, with the […]