October 09, 2003
Liberia: Lift Sanctions On Liberia, Says Interim Foreign Minister
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Economic sanctions could undermine the peace effort Liberian foreign minister Lewis Brown has told United Nations Secretary general Kofi Annan. "They serve no useful purpose" now,… Read more »
October 08, 2003
Kenya: Kenya is Safe and a Gateway to Africa, Kibaki Tells Business Group
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Expanded trade, investment and tourism is what Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki hopes will result from his two-day official visit to Washington this week. "Let us make this a… Read more »
October 07, 2003
Kenya: Kenyans Leave U.S. Bemused at Continued Travel Warning
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At White House State dinners, toasts are usually fluffy words of undying friendship before a convivial and elegant meal; but Kenya President Mwai Kibaki spoke bluntly Monday night,… Read more »
October 06, 2003
Kenya: Kibaki Fails to Persuade Bush to Lift Warning Against Kenya Travel
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Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki was warmly welcomed at the White House by President George W. Bush Monday morning but at the end of the Oval office discussion that lasted almost an… Read more »
October 02, 2003
Kenya: US Will Help Improve Anti-Terror Defences, Bush Promises [interview]
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Although Kenyans are anxious to see U.S. government warnings against travel to their country lifted, "at the moment, Kenya is a place where [U.S.] citizens should be wary of… Read more »
Liberia: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Just Doesn't Care About Liberia, Charges Congressman Payne
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In an angry outburst, startling because it came from mild-mannered Congressman Donald Payne (D-NJ), the New Jersey Democrat said that U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld,… Read more »
Mali: 'Japan Should Have a Security Council Seat,' Says President Toure [interview]
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More than twenty African leaders gathered this week in the Japanese capital, Tokyo, for the third conference in ten years on development cooperation and partnership between Japan… Read more »
October 01, 2003
Africa: Panel Begins 'Bold' Examination of U. S. Policy Options
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A 15-member panel drawn from government, nongovernmental and private sector institutions has began a review of U. S. policy towards Africa with the aim of making bold… Read more »
Africa: Kansteiner To Leave Top Africa Post, Key Embassies in Transition
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Walter Kansteiner, the Bush administration's senior African policy official, is preparing to leave his post at the State Department after just over two years as assistant secretary… Read more »
Africa: Closing Address by Yoshiro Mori, Chairperson of Ticad III [document]
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September 30, 2003
South Africa: Japan a Vital Partner for Africa, Says Pretoria's Foreign Minister [interview]
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South Africa is often cited - inside and outside the continent - as Africa's leading economy, as well as a major player in the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad). Read more »
Ethiopia: Meles Defends Demand for New Ruling on Border With Eritrea [interview]
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The Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi and Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki are two of many African leaders who attended the opening ceremony in Japan of the third Tokyo… Read more »
September 29, 2003
Africa: Japan Pledges $1bn to Africa at Ticad 'Without Strings'
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Japanese Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, opened a major conference Monday in Tokyo on development in Africa, with a billion dollar pledge in grant aid for the poorest continent… Read more »
Nigeria: Economic Reform is On Course, Says Obasanjo [interview]
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Nigeria may be the giant of Africa and the world's sixth biggest exporter of crude oil but news on its economy is rarely reassuring. In recent years, daily reports have lamented… Read more »
September 25, 2003
West Africa: Nigeria Will Hand Over Charles Taylor, Predicts War Crimes Prosecutor [interview]
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The ambitions of the now-exiled Liberian President Charles Taylor fueled Sierra Leone's long conflict, says David Crane, the chief prosecutor of the United Nations-created Special… Read more »
Africa: Plain Speaking from Ghana's Education Minister on Future of Africa?s Academia
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How to improve tertiary education in sub-Saharan Africa, and find ways to make it work, is the theme of a three-day conference being held in Accra, Ghana. Questions raised in the… Read more »
September 22, 2003
Africa: Warnings, Anger, Passion and Determination at Major African Aids Conference
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Kenyan President, Mwai Kibaki, opened the 13th International Conference on Aids and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (known as Icasa) Sunday in the capital, Nairobi,… Read more »
September 21, 2003
Africa: Ex-President Rawlings Challenges "Behavior" of African Men
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Speaking at a Washington, D.C., dinner Friday night, former Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings said a significant part of the fight against HIV/Aids in Africa required targeting… Read more »
September 16, 2003
Africa: Cancun - Destined for Failure [analysis]
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When Kenyan and Ugandan delegations walked out of the World Trade Organisation's meeting on Sunday afternoon and Kenya's delegate George Odour Ong'wen declared to reporters that… Read more »
September 09, 2003
Africa: Protecting Communities to Protect the Planet [interview]
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Delegates from over 170 countries are meeting this week in Durban, South Africa, to discuss the guiding principles of conservation and Protected Area management at the fifth World… Read more »
September 08, 2003
Africa: Africans Head for WTO With Low Expectations [analysis]
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African trade ministers and officials are approaching the fifth World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial talks that begin in Cancun, Mexico, on Wednesday, with low expectations. Read more »
September 04, 2003
East Africa: Sudan Government, Rebels Still At Odds Over "Framework Document"
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Speaking to an audience at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, representatives of the Government of Sudan and the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement/Army… Read more »
September 03, 2003
Liberia: Coalition Advocates U.S. Support for Liberian Peace and Reconstruction [document]
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The following letter, sent to President George W. Bush on August 14, has been released by Liberia Watch, a non-partisan, diverse coalition of civil society, including NGOs, private… Read more »
August 28, 2003
Liberia: Transitional Gov't Chairman Rules Out War Crimes Tribunal
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The chairman of Liberia's new transitional government has warned that there is no provision under the recently signed peace agreement for a war crimes tribunal, despite… Read more »
August 24, 2003
West Africa: Peacebuilding In Liberia: Foundational Challenges And Appropriate Approaches [opinion]
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With the departure of Charles Taylor, the arrival of some peacekeepers, the signing of a new peace agreement and the selection, at the Accra conference, of the leadership of a new… Read more »