Month: May 2005

Johannesburg, 11 May, 2005— Zimbabwe’s key livestock sector needs further assistance to fully realise its potential as a foreign currency earner and valuable food resource, says Dr Stuart Hargreaves, principal director of the Department of […]

Bujumbura, 11 May, 2005— Burundian President Domitien Ndayizeye appointed on Tuesday Jean Marie Ngendahayo as the minister of interior, ending weeks of disagreement between the president and the former main rebel group, the CNDD-FDD. Ngendahayo […]

Baghdad, 11 May, 2005— While tests continue on contaminated wheat flour previously included in monthly food rations for millions of Iraqis, doctors fear it may already have been consumed with possible detrimental affects on health. […]

Geneva, 11 May, 2005— The Presidents of Cameroon and Nigeria, who have been implementing an International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on a formerly disputed border, have agreed to work out a new programme of […]

Harare, 9 May, 2005— On a hot Sunday afternoon in a suburb of the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, two unlikely football teams run out onto a dusty pitch. Like Sunday soccer everywhere, the players are mostly […]

Nairobi, 9 May, 2005— The early arrival of seasonal rains in Sudan’s South Darfur state is expected to spread throughout the entire region during the coming weeks, hampering humanitarian operations, an early-warning agency reported. ”Already […]

Khartoum, 9 May, 2005— The first flight taking food aid from Libya directly into western Sudan’s troubled Darfur region took place over the weekend as the United Nations food agency launched a campaign to reach […]

New York/Moscow, 9 May, 2005— The Quartet working to restore peace in the Middle East – the United Nations, United States, European Union and Russian Federation – today reiterated its willingness to help Israelis and […]