Articles by ANA

Gambella, 29 February, 2008— The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) will close down two Sudanese refugee camps before the end of May 2008, the organisation said, as repatriation gets under way again. UNHCR, with the International […]

Dakar, 29 February, 2008— Meningitis is spreading across the region with the death toll reaching 422 since the beginning of 2008 yet, contrary to several recent reports, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said the […]

Johannesburg, 29 February, 2008— Although the South African government’s Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) is on track to achieve its main objective of creating one million jobs for the poor by 2009, significant and sustained […]

Bissau, 29 February, 2008— According to the government’s current estimates, donors will need to provide 20,000 tonnes of food aid to compensate for expected production shortfalls in 2008. Aid experts in Bissau, however, said that […]

Abidjan, 28 February, 2008— A third of Abidjan’s inhabitants have had no drinking water for over a month and many have taken to the streets to vent their anger. “Each time we launch an appeal […]

Nairobi, 29 February, 2008— While lauding the agreement between Kenya’s two main political parties on power-sharing, humanitarian actors say the hard work has yet to begin – resettling the displaced and reconciling all Kenyans. “We […]

Accra, Ghana, 20 February, 2008— Africa has changed “in a very positive way” since President Bush first took office seven years ago, he said in Ghana February 20. He attributed that positive change to the […]

Monrovia, Liberia, 21 February, 2008— On the final stop of his five-nation Africa tour, President Bush told the Liberian people that the United States stands with them and will help them recover from decades of […]