Month: July 2006

The Hague, 7 July, 2006— The International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted five top leaders of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), including the commander Joseph Kony, in October 2005 on charges of war crimes and […]

Kampala, 6 July, 2006— Uganda’s announcement of a total amnesty to indicted leaders of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) met opposition on Thursday when the United States said “those who committed atrocities should be […]

Nairobi, 6 July, 2006— A joint fact-finding mission, comprising representatives of the European Union, African Union, Intergovernmental Authority on Development and the Arab League, on Thursday met leaders of the Union of the Islamic Courts […]

YAMOUSSOUKRO, 6 July, 2006— The UN will decide in September if Cote d’Ivoire’s peace-sealing presidential elections can go ahead as scheduled for October, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said after a mini-summit convened on the Ivorian […]

Banjul, The Gambia, 1 July, 2006— While hailing significant progress achieved by Africa in fostering development, human rights and security, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told leaders of the continent’s countries gathered in the Gambia […]

Geneva, 2 July, 2006— In a new look at why more than half the world’s workforce cannot earn enough to lift themselves and their families out of extreme poverty, the United Nations Economic and Social […]

Nairobi, 2 July, 2006— A pioneering initiative to make the 2006 FIFA World Cup not only entertaining but environmentally-friendly is has already emerged as a winner, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said today. The […]

Contrary to received postcolonial, African historiography, Kwame Nkrumah was a non-democratic or “partial revolutionary,” as opposed to a “total” and “democratic” revolutionary, the version counseled by Karl Marx. On this score alone, Nkrumah and his […]