Month: April 2005

Touba, 4 April, 2005— Senegal has one of the lowest HIV infection rates in Africa, but the central town of Touba, a Muslim shrine where over one million people gathered last week, is a hotspot […]

Nairobi, 4 April, 2005— Catholic Relief Services, an NGO active in Burundi, has initiated a seed fair project to help up to 68,000 families to acquire seeds at affordable prices, the organisation has announced. CRS […]

Johannesburg, 4 April, 2005— Mount Kilimanjaro is drying up. Climate change, coupled with widespread deforestation of the slopes, is melting the ice and snow that has crowned Africa’s highest peak for more than 11,000 years, […]

Windhoek, 4 April, 2005— Namibia has raised concerns over future power supplies after South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, announced it could no longer provide a steady supply of electricity. Eskom notified the Namibian Power Corporation […]

Washington, 5 April, 2005— President Bush said he is looking forward to leading a delegation to the funeral of Pope John Paul II on April 8, stating that he and first lady Laura Bush “look […]

Washington, 1 April, 2005— In his remarks shortly after the death of Pope John Paul II, President Bush lamented that ”The Catholic Church has lost its shepherd, the world has lost a champion of human […]

Washington, 1 April, 2005— The United States’ decision to abstain on a French-proposed U.N. Security Council resolution that would send Darfur war crimes cases to the International Criminal Court was a difficult one, Under Secretary […]

Washington, 1 April, 2005— Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in a statement issued April 1, congratulated Zimbabwe’s voters for turning out in great numbers to vote in parliamentary elections March 31 — even though she […]