Month: June 2005

Washington, 10 June, 2005— “Africa is at a very critical crossroads” and in need of a “comprehensive strategy” for its long-term development, the new chairman of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Africa, Republican Senator Mel […]

New York, 10 June, 2005— Assistance from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union to airlift additional African Union (AU) peacekeepers into Sudan’s troubled Darfur region will help expand the African-led peacekeeping mission […]

Washington, 7 June, 2005— President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair have announced they are working on a plan to eliminate 100 percent of the debt of African nations who are undertaking financial and […]

Washington, 7 June, 2005— The upcoming 2005 U.S.-Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum, to be held July 18-20 in Dakar, Senegal, will offer useful training sessions and discussions of best practices to show how […]

Barclayville, 7 June, 2005— While people across Liberia are returning home after 14 years of war, people living in Grand Kru county are leaving because life is just too tough. The remote south-east county has […]

New York, 7 June, 2005— The United Nations Security Council today strongly condemned the recent massacres of civilians in the western Côte d’Ivoire town of Duékoué, and urged Ivorian authorities to conduct an inquiry into […]

New York, 7 June, 2005— Joining the leaders of the United States and United Kingdom today in their call to the international community for increased emergency funding for “people in acute need in many parts […]

Washington/Madrid, 6 June, 2005— Spain will host its first air exercise designed to practice procedures that might be required of Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) partners if they ever need to intercept unconventional weapons in the […]