Month: December 2005

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 […]

Nairobi, 22 December, 2005— Several people have died of drought-related causes in Mandera district in Kenya’s Northeastern Province, where a prolonged dry spell has led to high levels of malnutrition and livestock deaths, officials said […]

Nairobi, 22 December, 2005— The UN Security Council extended the mandate of the UN Mission in Burundi (ONUB) on Wednesday for six months until 1 July 2006, noting that the Mission could end thereafter. “The […]

Addis Ababa, 22 December, 2005— Eritrea triggered a two-year war with Ethiopia and violated international law when it invaded its neighbour in May 1998, the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission (EECC) has ruled. Even though Eritrea has […]

Machiari, 22 December, 2005— Since Mariyam Nessa’s husband died of an asthma attack while ploughing his fields five years ago, her neighbours in the hamlet of Duliard have always helped out. But after the earthquake, […]

Monrovia, 21 December, 2005— Liberian football legend and failed presidential hopeful, George Weah, dropped allegations of fraud in the November run-off poll in the interests of peace on Wednesday. “I am pleased to announce that […]

Johannesburg, 21 December, 2005— UN Resident Coordinator Agostinho Zacarias has expressed surprise at the Zimbabwean government’s criticism of a model house built by the UN for those left homeless by the controversial Operation Murambatsvina. The […]

Kabul, 21 December, 2005— Members of the Afghan parliament on Wednesday elected opposition leader Yunus Qanooni as the president of the Wolesi Jirga (lower house of the parliament) in the post-conflict country. Afghanistan’s first parliament […]