Month: May 2006

Nairobi, 29 May, 2006— A soldier serving in the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) protection force has been killed during an ambush in the troubled western Sudanese region of Darfur, AMIS sources said. The […]

Dar es Salaam, 29 May, 2006— Peace talks between the government of Burundi and the Forces nationales de liberation (FNL), the country’s remaining rebel group, began on Monday in Tanzania’s commercial capital, Dar es Salaam. […]

Hargeysa, 29 May, 2006— Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, was calm but tense on Monday after a fresh outbreak of violence during the weekend left at least 12 people dead and hundreds more displaced. “It is calm […]

Addis Ababa, 29 May, 2006— During a May 27-29 visit, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Donald Yamamoto continued his quiet but effective brand of diplomacy by helping Ethiopians resolve domestic political differences […]

A letter published in the Ghanaian Chronicle of May 25, 2006, and written by a Ms. Mavis Esesentor, of Dansoman-Accra, rather insolently sought to call President J. A. Kufuor’s attention to what the writer dubiously […]

Washington, 26 May, 2006— “African Gold from the Glassell Collection, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,” which debuts May 26 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, presents some of the finest examples of […]

Washington, 26 May, 2006— U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Don Yamamoto will attend a May 26-27 meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, designed to tackle pending issues in the volatile eastern Congo region […]

Washington, 26 May, 2006— President Bush will welcome President Paul Kagame of the Republic of Rwanda to the White House May 31 to celebrate the “excellent” relations between both countries. A statement issued by the […]