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Abidjan, 7 June, 2004— Fighting erupted on the frontline in divided Cote d’Ivoire on Monday and fresh demonstrations against France took place in the commercial capital Abidjan, hours after President Laurent Gbagbo flew out on […]

Addis Ababa, 7 June, 2004— Ethiopia is to issue its first-ever private radio broadcasting licences in the next two months, Bereket Simon, the information minister, told IRIN on Monday. The licences, he added, would be […]

Kigali, 8 June, 2004— A Rwandan court sentenced the country’s former president, Pasteur Bizimungu, to 15 years in prison on Monday for embezzling state funds, disseminating literature to incite public violence and forming a militia […]

Dakar, 4 June, 2004— Gyude Bryant, the Chairman of Liberia’s transitional government has pleaded to the UN Security Council to lift an embargo on diamond and timber exports to help the struggling company rebuild its […]

New York, 6 June, 2004— The top United Nations humanitarian official has welcomed today’s release following days in captivity of 16 humanitarian workers detained by the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) in the country’s strife-torn Darfur […]

Washington, 6 June, 2004— U.S. officials express confidence that agreement is near on a comprehensive new U.N. Security Council resolution on Iraq that will commit the international community to supporting Iraq’s efforts to achieve security […]

Singapore, 6 June, 2004— U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says that the phenomenon of ideological extremism — which uses terrorism as its primary weapon — stands in the way of global political progress and economic […]

Washington, 6 June, 2004— President Bush, paying tribute those who died and those who survived the D-Day, June 6, 1944, Normandy landing, said the operation to invade Fortress Europe and defeat the enemy Nazi forces […]