Articles by ANA

Bissau– President Kumba Yala of Guinea-Bissau was desposed by the army in a bloodless coup on Sunday after delaying parliamentary elections in this small West African state for nearly a year and leaving civil servants […]

Ndjamena, CHAD– Hundreds of Sudanese refugees are still streaming into neighbouring Chad to escape aerial attacks in Sudan’s Darfur region. The continuing influx has pushed the number of Sudanese who have recently fled to Chad […]

Monrovia– Another 177 internally displaced people (IDPs) were transported out of Monrovia on Friday by the UN refugee agency, as efforts to relieve the pressure on the chronically overcrowded Liberian capital, as well as to […]

New York– In New York to press for the massive numbers of troops needed to stabilize and help rebuild Liberia, the top United Nations envoy for the country said today he would ask the Security […]

Kinshasa– Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) called on Thursday for greater humanitarian intervention in northern Katanga Province of southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where civilians were still suffering the consequences of armed conflict and […]

Dar es Salaam– Government health officials in Zanzibar have played down reports that a mysterious disease had killed several people on the archipelago’s northern island of Pemba. The permanent secretary in Zanzibar’s Ministry of Health, […]

Bangui– The government of Japan has granted 36 million francs CFA (US $60,000) to the Pasteur Institute in the Central African Republic’s capital, Bangui, for the training of laboratory technicians in the provinces, an official […]

Abidjan– President Laurent Gbagbo appointed new ministers of defence and internal security on Saturday, filling key portfolios that had been vacant for six months. The long-awaited move should allow Cote d’Ivoire’s derailed peace process to […]