Articles by ANA

London, 30 July– The face of child trafficking to the UK is changing, with children being transported from an increasing number of countries and traffickers widening their operations with new methods and destinations, said UNICEF […]

New York, 30 July– United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on the Security Council to send a multinational peacekeeping force to the war-torn West African country as quickly as possible and to give it […]

Nairobi, 30 July– The United States has launched a US $15 million programme to help developing countries stop illegal logging, including the sale and export of illegally harvested timber. Announcing the Initiative Against Illegal Logging […]

Addis Ababa, 29 July– Clashes between rival pastoralists competing over scarce resources must be prevented through early mediation efforts, the UN’s Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia (EUE) has said. The call comes as nomadic groups from […]

Nairobi, 30 July– Africa’s economies grew more slowly in 2002 than in the previous year and few countries achieved the growth rate needed to meet a set of targets agreed by the world’s nations for […]

Kinshasa, 30 July– The Democratic Republic of Congo’s total external debt is due to be reduced by about 80 percent under the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank’s Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) […]

Kinshasa, 30 July– Fighting has erupted between the Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD-Goma) and Mayi-Mayi militias in South Kivu Province of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), despite the recent formation of a […]

Nairobi, 30 July– The UN Secretary-General’s representative for Somalia, Winston Tubman, has said Somali peace talks will continue despite Wednesday’s walkout by the president of the Transitional National Government (TNG), Abdiqassim Salad Hassan. ”His absence […]