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Washington– A U.S. law enforcement team announced the arrest of a Minnesota man August 29 in connection with the release of a harmful computer program that caused significant damage to vulnerable machines earlier in the […]

Nairobi– Advocacy group Refugees International (RI) has called on the international donor community to encourage countries in Africa’s Great Lakes region to extend citizenship rights to the Batwa or ”Pygmy” people. ”Batwa occupy the role […]

Abidjan– Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the government of Cote d’Ivoire to immediately disband civilian militias, set up an international commission of inquiry investigate human rights abuses committed in the civil war and […]

Abuja, Nigeria– ”The 21st century is going to be the century of science and technology” in Africa, Dr. Eamon Kelly, chairman of the board of the National Science Foundation told an international audience at the […]

Banqui, 23 July– The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has resumed transporting food into the Central African Republic (CAR) from neighbouring Cameroon, where it had been held for four months due to insecurity in CAR, […]

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, […]