Articles by ANA

Lagos, 11 October, 2004— Several of Nigeria’s biggest cities were paralysed on Monday as labour unions began a four-day general strike to protest at the latest fuel price increases under President Olusegun Obasanjo’s deregulation programme. […]

Kampala, 12 October, 2004 The Ugandan Health Ministry is to start distributing free insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) to children under five years and pregnant women in 2 million households in an effort to fight malaria that […]

Addis Ababa, 11 October, 2004— Governance is improving across the continent, Kingsley Amoako, head of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, said on Monday. The political environment is being liberalised, human rights are better […]

Harare, 11 October, 2004— Hundreds of families evicted last month from a farm outside the Zimbabwean capital Harare, occupied under the land reform programme in 2000, have been granted a reprieve. High Court Judge Rita […]

Bujumbura, 11 October, 2004— At least 1,000 Congolese Tutsi refugees, mostly women and children, have been stuck on the Burundi border with Democratic Republic the Congo (DRC) since the middle of last week, waiting on […]

Bissau, 11 October, 2004— The government of Guinea-Bissau has signed an agreement with a group of soldiers who staged a mutiny last week, promising them an amnesty and the appointment of a new military high […]

Nairobi, 11 October, 2004— A veteran Somali politician and former military officer, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, won Sunday’s presidential election held in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and immediately vowed to re-establish stability in the Horn of […]

Lagos, 1 October, 2004— Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Friday that he had agreed to discuss the grievances of an ethnic militia group that is threatening to shut down oil production in the southeast […]