Month: December 2005

Addis Ababa, 23 December, 2005— The disputed frontier between Ethiopia and Eritrea remains militarily “tense and potentially volatile” despite a pull back of some troops, the United Nations said on Friday. Azouz Ennifar, deputy head […]

Johannesburg, 23 December, 2005— Congolese and Angolan refugees in Zambia face a bleak new year with the threat of a 50 percent cut in food rations from 1 January unless urgent funding is secured. The […]

Brussels, 23 December, 2005— Belgian authorities have positively identified a decomposing body discovered in a Brussels canal as that of former Rwandan Commerce Minister Juvenal Uwilingiyimana who was indicted by the UN International Criminal Tribunal […]

Washington, 22 December, 2005— As the world faces the further spread of avian influenza and the possibility of human pandemic influenza, Africa will encounter special challenges preparing its own defense, says development economist Asif M. […]

Washington, 22 December, 2005— The potential for economic growth and development across sub-Saharan Africa is “huge,” according to international economist Asif M. Shaikh, the president and chief executive officer of the Washington-based International Resources Group […]

Washington, 23 December, 2005— Thirty-seven African countries are eligible for economic and trade benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), President Bush determined December 22. The action was announced in a statement by […]

Cotonou, 22 December, 2005— Opposition parties and civil society groups are turning up the heat on Benin’s President Mathieu Kerekou so that he will keep his promise to hold elections as planned early next year. […]

Lusaka, 22 December, 2005— The Zambian government has extended its commercial maize import programme by three months in a bid to ensure adequate tonnages to feed 1.7 million food insecure people. Harrison Banda, executive director […]