Articles by ANA

Johannesburg– Botswana has experienced remarkable growth in recent years, however, there is an urgent need to ensure that socioeconomic development is broad-based, says a new report. The report, ”Botswana: Future Prospects and the Need for […]

Nairobi– The Somali national reconciliation conference is expected to reconvene this weekend in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, after a three-week hiatus, a member of its organizing committee told IRIN. The talks were adjourned after the […]

Nairobi– The president of Somalia’s Transitional National Government (TNG), Abdiqassim Salad Hassan, and four prominent faction leaders met on Tuesday in Mogadishu to discuss the Somali peace talks currently underway in Kenya, one of the […]

Addis Ababa– The peace process between Ethiopia and Eritrea must not ”lose momentum” in the crucial run-up to the demarcation of their common border, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has urged. In his latest report on […]

On the infamous Goree Island off the coast of Senegal, a hair-splitting inscription – ‘‘From this door for a journey without return‘‘, is engraved on the Island’s creamy stone standing on the final exit point […]

Monrovia– Rebels of the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) group on Tuesday morning captured the provincial town of Kakata in Margibi County, 45 km north of the capital, Monrovia, before West African peacekeepers […]

Nairobi– The price of fuel in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, has more than doubled in just two weeks, sources there told IRIN on Tuesday. Diesel – the fuel most commonly used by businesses and vehicles […]

Addis Ababa– Ethiopia’s government has been providing transport and food rations for thousands of illegal immigrants ordered to leave Djibouti by 15 September, the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs told IRIN on Friday. ”We are […]