Washington, 23 December, 2005— Thirty-seven African countries are eligible for economic and trade benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), President Bush determined December 22. The action was announced in a statement by […]

Cotonou, 22 December, 2005— Opposition parties and civil society groups are turning up the heat on Benin’s President Mathieu Kerekou so that he will keep his promise to hold elections as planned early next year. […]

Lusaka, 22 December, 2005— The Zambian government has extended its commercial maize import programme by three months in a bid to ensure adequate tonnages to feed 1.7 million food insecure people. Harrison Banda, executive director […]

Nairobi, 22 December, 2005— Several people have died of drought-related causes in Mandera district in Kenya’s Northeastern Province, where a prolonged dry spell has led to high levels of malnutrition and livestock deaths, officials said […]

Nairobi, 22 December, 2005— The UN Security Council extended the mandate of the UN Mission in Burundi (ONUB) on Wednesday for six months until 1 July 2006, noting that the Mission could end thereafter. “The […]

Addis Ababa, 22 December, 2005— Eritrea triggered a two-year war with Ethiopia and violated international law when it invaded its neighbour in May 1998, the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission (EECC) has ruled. Even though Eritrea has […]

Machiari, 22 December, 2005— Since Mariyam Nessa’s husband died of an asthma attack while ploughing his fields five years ago, her neighbours in the hamlet of Duliard have always helped out. But after the earthquake, […]

Johannesburg, 21 December, 2005— UN Resident Coordinator Agostinho Zacarias has expressed surprise at the Zimbabwean government’s criticism of a model house built by the UN for those left homeless by the controversial Operation Murambatsvina. The […]