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Washington, 27 July, 2004— n an escalating war of words between Sudanese and U.S. officials over the Darfur crisis, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Charles Snyder dismissed a statement by Sudan’s […]

Monrovia, 28 July, 2004— West African leaders will review Liberia’s year-old peace deal at a summit in Accra on Thursday, after a series of wrangles between the country’s former warring factions and Gyude Bryant, the […]

Lagos, 27 July, 2004— Nigerian waters were the most deadly during the first half of 2004 according to a new piracy report, and analysts are blaming the proliferation of weapons in the coastal oil-rich Niger […]

Nouakchott, 26 July, 2004— President Maaouiya Ould Taya has sacked the entire economic team of his government following a sharp rise in prices and a big fall in the value of Mauritania’s currency, the ouguiya, […]

Washington, 26 July, 2004— Secretary of State Colin Powell will leave July 26 for a five-country tour that will take him to Hungary, Poland, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. According to a July 23 State […]

Monrovia, 26 July, 2004— As Liberia marked the 157th anniversary today of its independence, the top United Nations envoy for the West African nation congratulated it on the progress made since the end of a […]

Washington, 23 July, 2004— Both chambers of the U.S. Congress adopted concurrent resolutions July 22 condemning the continuing atrocities in the Darfur region of western Sudan as ”genocide” and asking the international community to join […]

Johannesburg, 22 July, 2004— South African peacekeeping troops are to stay on in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Eritrea for another year, a government official told IRIN. ”The extension to the troop deployment […]