Europe

Berlin, 20th September– A one-day summit meeting between leaders of Britain, France and Germany ended in Berlin with the three leaders acknowledging that they have made ‘‘progress´´ in an effort to find common ground over […]

New York– Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday mourned the death of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, stabbed in a Stockholm department store yesterday, as a great loss for the United Nations of a strong ally and […]

Bangui– Germany has granted €250,000 (US $277,475) to the government of the Central African Republic (CAR) in support of efforts to provide safe drinking water and rehabilitate health facilities, state-owned Radio Centrafrique reported on Friday. […]

Kinshasa– The European Union has granted the newly-installed transitional government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) €205 million (US $222 million) to fight poverty nationwide from 2003 through 2007. ”This contribution is aimed […]

Nairobi– The European Commission is to provide financial assistance to Eritrea under an initiative to back democracy and human rights. The funding will be released under the European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) […]

Pristina– – The United Nations mission in Kosovo is set to launch a month-long weapons amnesty in September, its third such effort to take out of circulation “the huge quantity of unauthorized weapons” left in […]

New York– Security Council members today condemned the recent killing of a United Nations police officer in Kosovo, underscoring their support for the work of the UN mission there and appealing for the perpetrators to […]

New York– The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is supporting a Bulgarian initiative to improve living conditions and expand job opportunities for 46,000 Roma and 5,000 ethnic Turks living in run-down neighbourhoods in six municipalities. […]