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New York United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday condemned the latest round of violence and voiced hope that the resignation of Palestinian Prime Minister Abu Mazen would not stall efforts to bring peace to […]

New York– United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called for expanding the membership of the Security Council to make the 15-member body more democratic and more representative and thus give it greater legitimacy, especially in […]

Kampala– More than half the 16,000 Sudanese refugees scheduled to be relocated from the overcrowded Kiryandongo camp in western Uganda have now been successfully transported to new camps in the north of the country, after […]

Monrovia– The deployment of West African Peacekeepers (ECOMIL) into the volatile central Liberia was delayed again on Monday due to renewed fighting between Liberian government troops and rebels of the Liberians United for Reconciliation and […]

Nairobi– A rebel group in western Sudan’s Darfur region, the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A), has accused the Sudanese government of breaking a ceasefire agreement signed last Wednesday by both sides. SLM Secretary-General Minni Arkou Minnawi […]

Polygamy is fuelling a population explosion in impoverished southern Ethiopia, which in turn compounds the food crisis, according to the US Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS). FEWS said the spiralling population was one of […]

Bangui– Germany has granted €250,000 (US $277,475) to the government of the Central African Republic (CAR) in support of efforts to provide safe drinking water and rehabilitate health facilities, state-owned Radio Centrafrique reported on Friday. […]

Addis Ababa– Ethiopia on Friday appealed for US $40 million to help fight the devastating crisis which has affected 13.2 million people in the impoverished, drought-stricken country. Simon Mechale, who heads the government’s Disaster Prevention […]