Accra, 17 June– President John Agyekum Kufuor yesterday returned home from a four-day state visit to Libya at the invitation of the country’s head of state Colonel Muamar Al-Qathafi. The Foreign Minister, Nana Addo Dankwa […]

Nairobi, 17 June– President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has launched a nationwide campaign to promote the registration of births in the country, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported on […]

VAN, TURKEY, 17 June– One in every eight girls is out of school in Turkey on the eve of the launch of a major new campaign to get girl’s back into the classroom. The Advocacy […]

Abidjan, Ivory Coast After seven months as a refugee, Tata T. went into labour just before disembarking from the French Navy ship Orage in Abidjan on Tuesday. The mother gave birth to a healthy baby […]

Kampala, 17 June– Catholic missions in northern Uganda are on high alert after the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) declared that they would be the next target for its attacks on the civilian population of […]

Geneva, 17 June– The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today removed its recommendation to postpone all but essential travel to Taiwan Province of China, leaving just Beijing on the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) […]

Berlin, 16 June– “We have witnessed the concept of conservation being hijacked by protectionists. Conservation is a means to enable sustainable whaling. This proposal was not about conservation but protectionism and animal rights,” says Stefan […]

Washington, 16 June– Like many Americans, I am surprised that we have yet to locate the weapons of mass destruction that all of us, Republican and Democrat, expected to find immediately in Iraq. But do […]