Articles by ANA

BASRA, Iraq– – As interest in repatriation builds among some Iraqi exile communities, the UN refugee agency has stepped up efforts to stabilise return conditions by providing aid to areas of return and positioning large […]

Monrovia– As the first international peacekeeping troops arrive in Liberia, UNHCR and other aid agencies have been getting ready to resume assistance to hundreds of thousands of people displaced by recent fighting in the strife-torn […]

Geneva– The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) expressed deep concern today over an estimated 300,000 people cut off by floods in the northern part of Sudan, where it is already feeding 3.2 million people […]

Abidjan– The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced that a specially-chartered supply ship will sail from Abidjan today destined for Liberia, where it will play a crucial role in efforts to avert a humanitarian […]

Monrovia, 4 August– Almost 200 Nigerian troops arrived at Liberia’s international airport on Monday as the vanguard of a West African peacekeeping force, but their commander warned that it would be “a couple of days” […]

Abuja, Nigeria– ”The 21st century is going to be the century of science and technology” in Africa, Dr. Eamon Kelly, chairman of the board of the National Science Foundation told an international audience at the […]

Washington, 4 August– The surprised reaction on the part of the young man just receiving the results of his HIV test caught Urbanas Ngunga off guard. The young man ”suddenly dashed out the door into […]

Monrovia, 4 August– The first Nigerian troops arrived in Liberia on Monday as the vanguard of a West African-led peacekeeping force that will try to enforce a ceasefire between the government and two rebel groups, […]