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Abidjan, 14 November, 2003— Hundreds of Liberian militia men loyal to former president Charles Taylor were being disarmed by UN peacekeepers near the port city of Buchanan on Friday after they clashed with rebel forces […]

Washington, 13 November, 2003— Iraq and Iran were the main topics of conversation when Secretary of State Colin Powell met with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw at the State Department today. During a joint press […]

Bangui, 13 November, 2003— The government of the Central African Republic has disbanded a military intelligence unit in the presidential security services because of reported human rights violations, an official told IRIN on Wednesday. ”The […]

Nairobi, 11 November, 2003— Despite the fact that women make up two-thirds of the general population in southern Sudan, and three-quarters in conflict areas like Bahr al-Ghazal, they suffer some of the poorest quality-of-life indices […]

Nairobi, 11 November, 2003— The vast majority of Sudan’s refugees are currently living in Uganda (over 223,000), Ethiopia (over 88,000), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (almost 70,000), Chad (about 70,000) and Kenya (almost 60,000). […]

Nairobi, 11 November, 2003— Both the Sudanese government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) have said that once a peace agreement has been signed, the return of the country’s refugees and internally displaced to […]

Monrovia, 11 November, 2003— The United Nations is negotiating with the Liberian government to move humanitarian flights from Roberts International airport, 45 km southeast of Monrovia, to Spriggs Payne airfield in the eastern suburbs of […]

Geneva, 10 November, 2003— The first of three annual meetings to discuss the Biological Weapons Convention begins today at the United Nations office in Geneva as part of a plan to strengthen the treaty’s effectiveness. […]