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Transport routes, trade and migrant labour flows severely disrupted By Ernest Harsch The railway line running from Côte d’Ivoire’s port city of Abidjan to Ouagadougou, more than 1,200 kilometres away in neighbouring Burkina Faso, is […]

News York, 20 July– The United Nations body set up to monitor the elimination of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction today mourned the death of David Kelly, a key staff member involved in the arms […]

Why Defense Must Change By Donald H. Rumsfeld Congress will soon decide whether the Department of Defence is to join the rest of the world — and many newly revamped parts of the federal government, […]

Brazzaville, 15 July– About 10,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the Pool Region currently living in eight sites in the south of Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo, have benefited from aid provided by […]

Washington, 13 July– The situation in Iraq is ”difficult” at the moment, but ”the outcome is going to be a good outcome,” Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said in an interview on NBC’s ”Meet the […]

Washington, 11 July– President Bush says intelligence services cleared his January 28, 2003 State of the Union Address to the U.S. Congress that included a sentence indicating that Saddam Hussein was seeking uranium from Africa, […]

Nairobi, 11 July– The independent claims commission, which is looking into post-war claims by Eritrea and Ethiopia, has announced partial awards regarding the issue of prisoners-of-war. In a lengthy document issued on 8 July, the […]

Rome, 11 July– With the humanitarian situation in Liberia deteriorating by the day, the United Nations World Food Programme warns that hundreds of thousands of displaced people in camps outside the capital, Monrovia, will soon […]