Month: January 2006

Kinshasa, 23 January, 2006— An armed, unidentified group killed eight peacekeepers from Guatemala and injured five others on Monday, during an ambush in Garamba National Park, in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo […]

Kampala, 23 January, 2006— At least 11 people in northeastern Uganda have died from suspected meningitis after a specimen taken from one patient tested positive for the disease, health officials said on Monday. “A single […]

Sulaimaniyah, 23 January, 2006— Emergency measures are being taken in northern Iraq to prevent bird flu, after a scare last week in which a young girl died after a fifteen-day illness. Subsequent tests to determine […]

Manhattan, Kansas, 23 January, 2006— President Bush said that as part of U.S. efforts to train Iraqi police, the recruits will receive training in human rights and ethics in an effort to prevent abusive behavior. […]

Washington, 23 January, 2006— Ambassador John Danilovich, chief executive officer (CEO) of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), will travel to Morocco and Benin January 24-31. The trip, according to a January 23 MCC announcement, will […]

Lubumbashi, 23 January, 2006— Relief workers say that fighting between the Congolese army and Mayi-Mayi militias in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Katanga Province has spread to a new area south of the town of […]

Washington/Accra, 17 January, 2006— “The people of the United States believe in Africa’s future” and, like Africans, know that “education is vital to a better future for all of the world’s children,” first lady Laura […]

Washington, 17 January, 2006— Speaking to reporters while en route to Monrovia January 16 to attend the inauguration of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first elected woman president of Liberia, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice contrasted that […]