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New York, 2 December, 2003— U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell should use his visit to Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco this week to urge the governments of those countries to take meaningful steps toward expanding […]

Kampala, 1 December, 2003— Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s younger brother – Reserve Force commander and army representative in parliament, Lt-Gen Salim Saleh – has resigned amid persistent allegations that he spearheaded his country’s plunder of […]

Johannesburg, 27 November, 2003— Political tension simmering between leaders in Comoros came to a head on Wednesday when government troops reportedly opened fire on a group of demonstrators protesting the policies of the country’s president, […]

Nairobi, 27 November, 2003— There is ”compelling evidence” that the government of Sudan is ”largely responsible” for the abuses and humanitarian crisis in Darfur, western Sudan, said rights group Amnesty International (AI) in a statement […]

Bujumbura, 25 November, 2003— At the end of a six-day mission to Burundi, members of a delegation of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) pledged on Tuesday to lobby donors to resume aid to […]

Nairobi, 24 November, 2003— Hundreds of families who were driven out of their homes by recent fighting in the Galgudud Region, central Somalia, are said to be living in ”destitute” conditions. Local elders told IRIN […]

Monrovia, 22 November, 2003— Children danced in the streets of the Liberian capital Monrovia on Friday night and cars flashed their blinker lights in celebration after mains electricity was restored to part of the city […]

Washington, 21 November, 2003— World Bank Managing Director, Mamphela Ramphele, will co-chair the newly established Global Commission on International Migration with Jan O. Karlsson, former Swedish Minister for Development Cooperation, Migration and Asylum Policy. In […]