October 22, 2003
Liberia: U.S. Funding for Liberia Awaits Resolution of House and Senate Differences
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The U.S. Congress has approved emergency funding for Liberia as part of the $87 billion spending bills for Iraq and Afghanistan that passed both the Senate and the House of… Read more »
October 20, 2003
Sudan: Powell to Kenya for Sudan Peace talks
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Secretary of State Colin Powell will arrive in Kenya Tuesday to push for conclusion of peace talks on the Sudan underway in the Kenyan town of Naivasha. Powell will make the… Read more »
Gambia: Independent Newspaper Attacked by Arsonists
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An independent Gambian newspaper with a history of reporting critically on the government of Yahya Jammeh has once again been the target of an attack apparently aimed at closing… Read more »
October 19, 2003
Congo-Kinshasa: Progress in Congo Being Made, Insists UN Official
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While acknowledging that there are still "wars going on all over the place" in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Director for the Africa 1 Division in the United… Read more »
October 17, 2003
East Africa: House Subcommittee Approves Sanctions Bill to Pressure Ethiopia, Eritrea
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In the U.S. Congress, Thursday, the House Subcommittee on Africa approved sending a "Resolution of the Ethiopia-Eritrea Border Dispute Act of 2003" to the full House International… Read more »
Liberia: Coalition Appeals to Americans to Pressure Congress for Liberia Peace Funds
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A non-partisan coalition of U.S. groups and individuals is appealing to Americans across the country to contact Congress in support of a $200 million emergency aid package for… Read more »
October 15, 2003
Liberia: 'We Need to Understand Where We Went Wrong,' says Brumskine [interview]
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Liberia's transitional government has been launched and Chairman Gyude Bryant has two years to set this battered country back on its feet. A compromise candidate selected as part… Read more »
October 13, 2003
Chad: President Deby Turns On Oil Pipeline - and a Path to Riches
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Landlocked, poor and underdeveloped, Chad joined Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and other leading global oil-producing countries Friday, when President Idriss Deby formally inaugurated the… Read more »
Africa: Nigeria, Still Attracted by Gold
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With five new gold medals obtained this weekend, two of which were won in the men's and women's 100 meter, Nigeria has advanced a giant step in the standings of the 8th All African… Read more »
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 »
