June 11, 2004
Botswana: Expectant Mothers Take Up Routine HIV Testing
Scores of pregnant women in Botswana's second largest commercial centre, Francistown, are embracing routine HIV testing, a study has revealed. Read more »
June 09, 2004
Africa: First Ladies Launch Organisation to Fight HIV/Aids
The wives of eight African heads of state have formed a body to be known as the Organisation of African First Ladies Against HIV/AIDS (OAFLA), which, they said, would coordinate… Read more »
June 04, 2004
Cote d'Ivoire: EU Re-Equips 25 Health Centres, Mainly in the North
The European Union has provided a grant of 3.5 million euros ($4.2 million) to re-equip health centres in 25 war-affected districts of Cote d'Ivoire, mainly in the rebel-held north… Read more »
February 11, 2004
Angola: Rights Activists Call for Greater Transparency
Rights activists in Angola have accused the authorities of riding roughshod over civil liberties after demonstrators this week were prevented from staging a protest against alleged… Read more »
February 09, 2004
West Africa: Ecowas Governments Tackle HIV/Aids in Their Armed Forces
Top military commanders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met in Ghana on Monday to draw up a detailed two-year action plan to tackle HIV/AIDS within their… Read more »
December 12, 2003
Africa: Irin Web Special On Child Soldiers: Too Small to Be Fighting in Anyone's War
His comrades in the transit camp run by Save the Children-UK in Bunia, a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), called him 'Kadogo', which means "small" in Kiswahili. The… Read more »
November 05, 2003
Liberia: UN Mission Head Klein Urges New Government to Abolish Army
Jacques Klein, the head of the United Nations mission in Liberia, urged the country's transitional government on Wednesday to abolish the national army, saying soldiers only "play… Read more »
June 19, 2002
Central African Republic: Brazzaville, Bangui Centres for Diamond Smuggling
The capitals of the Republic of Congo, Brazzaville; and of the Central African Republic, Bangui, are being used as conduits for the illegal smuggling diamonds from the Democratic… Read more »
August 28, 2000
Somalia: A Town Where History is Made
The tiny, mountainous town of Arta 30 km south of the Djibouti capital has been transformed into a small piece of Somalia gripped by election fever. Banners in blue and white, the… Read more »