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Washington, 20 October 2003– More than 1.2 billion Muslims worldwide will celebrate the start of Ramadan, Islam’s holy month of fasting, on the October 26 or 27. The start and end dates for Ramadan may […]

Nairobi, 20 October 2003– A member of the Transitional National Assembly of Somalia, was found murdered in a forest on the outskirts on Nairobi on Sunday. The body of Shaykh Ibrahim Ali Abdulle, a prominent […]

Nairobi, 17 October– Peace negotiations between the Sudanese government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) taking place in Naivasha Kenya have ”hit a rock”, according to Malik Agar Eyre, SPLM commander and Governor of […]

NAIROBI, 14 October– Organisers say the Somali peace talks underway in Kenya are on course, and contrary to reports, have not stalled. James Kiboi, a member of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) technical committee […]

Monrovia, 13 October– The commander of United Nations troops in Liberia has thanked government and rebel leaders for making the capital Monrovia a weapons free zone, according to a press statement from the UN Mission […]

Johannesburg, 8 October– Angola and Zimbabwe are the two Southern African countries that faired the worst in Transparency International’s (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI) for 2003. The CPI charts the level of corruption in 133 […]

New York, 7 October– U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte said October 7 that progress has been made in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), but the peace process ”still has got a long way to […]

Washington, 6 October– The United States and Kenya — two nations which share common values — are together confronting the threat of global terrorism, President Bush said October 6 as he welcomed Kenyan President Mwai […]