Month: March 2005

Lome, 15 March, 2005— Togo’s opposition parties have picked septuagenarian politician Emmanuel Bob-Akitani as their joint candidate for next month’s presidential election, hoping he will be able to beat the son of the late head […]

Dakar, 16 March, 2005— Senegal plans to switch to more expensive but more effective artemisinin-based anti-malaria drugs before the rainy season kicks off this year, with the help of funding from the Global Fund to […]

Windhoek, 16 March, 2005— The recount of votes cast in Namibia’s national elections, held in November last year, has confirmed the ruling party’s landslide victory. The results of the recount were announced on Wednesday night. […]

Kampala, 16 March, 2005— Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday rejected a proposal from Burundi’s electoral commission to postpone the country’s final round of elections by two months, […]

New York, 16 March, 2005— United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is on his way back to New York from the Middle East after talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders that gave hope for renewed moves […]

Washington, 16 March, 2005— Representatives of civil society in Muslim countries in the Middle East and Africa are converging on Tarrytown, New York, March 18-20 for a conference that will explore ideas and propose strategies […]

Washington, 16 March, 2005— The U.S. Millennium Development Corporation (MCC) has begun to spend some of its appropriated funds in Madagascar — the first country it has selected to receive Millennium Development Account (MCA) funding […]

Washington, 16 March, 2005— President Bush has nominated U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz to succeed James Wolfensohn as president of the World Bank. In a March 16 White House news release, Bush said Wolfowitz […]