Articles by ANA

Bunia, 1 April, 2005— Militiamen in Congo’s Ituri District who failed to comply with a UN ultimatum to disarm will be hunted down, Gen Jean-Francois Collot d’Escury, chief of staff of the UN Mission in […]

Abidjan, 31 March, 2005— Moussa Tanoh used to import two shipments of new car parts in to Cote d’Ivoire every month but in 2004, he only managed two all year as a protracted political crisis […]

Nairobi, 31 March, 2005— The UN Security Council’s decision to sanction Sudan for failing to end conflict in the western region of Darfur will have a negative effect on current efforts to bring peace and […]

Luanda, 30 March, 2005— As the Angolan government gears up for the 2006 elections, civil society has called for more transparency, with action to counter mismanagement and corruption. The Coalition of Reconciliation, Transparency and Citizenship […]

Harare, 30 March, 2005— The Zimbabwean government has reportedly dismissed over one thousand polling officers and accredited election monitors, ahead of Thursday’s parliamentary elections, on allegations that they support the opposition Movement for Democratic Change […]

Monrovia, 30 March, 2005— The UN peacekeeping missions in Liberia and Cote d’Ivoire are trying to track down those who have recently been recruiting former combatants in Liberia to fight for armed groups into neighbouring […]

Dakar, 30 March, 2005— The United Nations has increased its 2005 appeal for West Africa by $38 million in order to help countries battling with the aftermath of last year’s locust invasion and localised drought, […]

Nairobi, 30 March, 2005— Unidentified gunmen wounded two African Union (AU) monitors on Tuesday near the town of Niteaga, northwest of Nyala, the capital of the western Sudanese state of South Darfur, an AU spokesman […]