July 18, 2002
Africa: US Inching Closer To Consensus on Sustainable Development Summit
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High-level officials from 27 nations who met in New York Wednesday at the urging of South African president Thabo Mbeki, say outstanding differences between developing nations and… Read more »
Mozambique: Outspoken Provincial Governor Says Economic Success isn't Helping the Poor
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Felicio Zacarias, governor of Mozambique's central province of Sofala, is famous. They call him "Samoriano", or Samora the younger, after Mozambique's first president Samora… Read more »
July 17, 2002
West Africa: Ecowas Head Predicts Liberian Gov't-Rebel Talks, Praises AU [interview]
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Dr Mohamed ibn Chambas is the executive secretary of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas). He attended the recent inaugural summit of the African Union (AU) in… Read more »
Africa: Foreign Minister Seeking Pre-WSSD Summit 'Consensus'
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Tough, unresolved issues keep the United States, European Union, Canada, Japan and Australia far apart from developing nations, a month before an "Earth Summit" formally called the… Read more »
July 16, 2002
Zimbabwe: American Journalist Granted 24-Hour Deportation Reprieve
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U.S. journalist Andrew Meldrum, who was ordered on Monday to leave Zimbabwe within 24 hours, has been granted a one-day reprieve by a High Court judge in the capital, Harare. Read more »
Mozambique: Frelimo's Future Presidential Candidate Sets Out His Stall [interview]
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The swearing in last month of Armando Guebuza as the new secretary general of Mozambique?s ruling party, Frelimo, makes it certain that he will be the party?s presidential… Read more »
July 15, 2002
Zimbabwe: US Journalist Fights Deportation After Acquittal
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An American journalist, who was acquitted Monday in Zimbabwe on charges of publishing a false story under stringent new media laws, is appealing against his deportation from the… Read more »
West Africa: Attempts to Bring Peace to Liberia - Can They Succeed?
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Following Sierra Leone's successful - and peaceful - elections in May, there's increased optimism that life really will return to normal. Yet Sierra Leone is not an island. Even if… Read more »
July 12, 2002
Africa: Washington's 'Africa Community' Salutes Veteran Campaigner Lucas
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"Unless we do something now there will not be any Africa!" With forceful words on the need for organization and to campaign against HIV/Aids, former Africare head C. Payne Lucas… Read more »
July 11, 2002
Senegal: Traditional Medicine Treatment for Aids Passes Clinical Tests
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In what are called "significant clinical and laboratory results," by The Association for the Promotion of Traditional Medicine (Prometra), a three year study of 62 Aids infected… Read more »
July 10, 2002
Africa: AU Summit Closes On Uncertain Note
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The first ever African Union summit ended Wednesday, with a common pledge from the assembled leaders to bring meaningful change to the continent to benefit their peoples. Read more »
Zambia: 'Protect Young Girls from Forced Sex With HIV-Positive Men' [column]
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As the international Aids conference continues in Barcelona, Janet Fleischman of Human Rights Watch contributes this personal view on the special and urgent need to protect young… Read more »
July 09, 2002
Africa: Launch Party for African Union a Mix of New - and Old
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There were two distinct groups of African leaders on hand to witness the birth of the African Union (AU), the new continental body that has replaced the Organisation of African… Read more »
Africa: Lack of Cash Poses Biggest Problem in Fight Against Aids [analysis]
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On Barcelona's streets outside the Aids conference, treatment advocates, doctors and people with HIV/AIDS plan to stage "massive" protests. South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign… Read more »
Africa: African Union is a New Way of Working, Says Mbeki
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"We have to think and work in a new way. We have to make every effort to understand in a real way the challenging work ahead of us. We have to overcome the debilitating effect of… Read more »
July 08, 2002
Africa: Summit Opens, African Leaders Give OAU State Funeral
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The final summit of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) opened on Monday in the South African port city of Durban, with praise from African leaders who hailed the organization… Read more »
Africa: 'Who?s Who' of Africa Hits Durban, Led by Al-Gaddafi
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African leaders are sweeping into the South African port city of Durban for two key summits in the next two days - one to bury the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), the second… Read more »
Africa: Farewell OAU, Welcome African Union
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Born in 1963 in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) is preparing for its own voluntary demise on Monday in the South African port city of… Read more »
July 05, 2002
Africa: OAU Stands Aloof on Madagascar, Despite Departure of Ratsiraka
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Despite the departure to Seychelles on Friday of the embattled erstwhile leader of Madagascar, Didier Ratsiraka - and the official recognition of his rival Marc Ravalomanana by… Read more »
July 03, 2002
Liberia: Detained Journalist In Military Hands, Says Minister
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Civilian authorities in Monrovia continue to defy court orders to produce journalist Hassan Bility who was arrested last week and accused of operating a Lurd (Liberians United for… Read more »
July 02, 2002
Africa: Defying Predictions, HIV in Africa Has Not Yet Peaked
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"The scale of the Aids crisis now outstrips even the worst-case scenarios of a decade ago," according to a new UNAIDS Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic, and Africa continues… Read more »
June 30, 2002
Liberia: Liberia's Charles Taylor Will Talk to Rebels Says Peace Broker
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The top official in charge of security for West African states, Cheikh Oumar Diarra, says Liberian President Charles Taylor is ready, under certain "conditions", to talk to members… Read more »
June 28, 2002
Africa: G-8 Summit 'Profoundly Disappointing,' Says UN Aids Advisor [interview]
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"There is between promise and reality in this summit a distance which cannot be bridged," explains Stephen Lewis, the United Nations Special Advisor on Aids, characterizing the… Read more »
Africa: New Key, Same Chords and Notes In G-8 'Africa Plan' [analysis]
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The New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad), "offers something different," G-8 heads of state and government, and representatives of the European Union, have said in an… Read more »
Africa: G-8 leaders Promise Support, But Fail to agree on Targets
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The leaders of the world's largest industrialized nations agreed Thursday to provide technical and financial assistance for an African peacekeeping force, pledged to provide… Read more »
