Monrovia, Liberia, 2 July– Thousands of Sierra Leonean refugees are seeking emergency evacuation from Liberia aboard a rescue ship being sent to the country’s war-torn capital, Monrovia, by the UN refugee agency UNHCR. Preparations for […]

Washington, 2 July– President Bush, at a White House ceremony July 2, announced his choice of Randall Tobias, a former chief executive of Eli Lilly & Company, to serve as the coordinator for his new […]

Washington, 2 July– During questioning from reporters July 2, President Bush reiterated his June 26 statement that President Charles Taylor of Liberia must leave in order for peace to take hold in that war-torn country. […]

Kingston, Jamaica, 2 July– In a message to Caribbean Heads of State gathered in Jamaica to discuss crucial issues affecting the region, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said the United Nations would continue to work in […]

Geneva, 2 July– Senior United Nations officials meeting today in Geneva stressed today that with nearly 75 per cent of the world’s poor living outside major urban centres, there was a real need to find […]

Atlanta, 2 July– The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today confirmed the presence of monkeypox virus in one Gambian giant rat, three dormice, and two rope squirrels, part of a shipment of African […]

KINSHASA, 2 July– Thousands of residents who fled inter-militia fighting in the town of Bunia in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have begun returning to their homes, the UN peacekeeping mission in the […]

NAIROBI, 2 July– The chairman of the pro-interim government Juba Valley Alliance [JVA] militia based in Kismayo, Col Barre Adan Shire Hirale, has said his rival Gen Muhammad Sa’id Hirsi Morgan is preparing to attack […]