December 15, 2004
Rwanda: Conflict With DRC Inevitable Without Action From the International Community - Top Official
In the past few months, Rwanda's government has increasingly insisted on action from the international community to combat the threat it says is posed by the ex-FAR, Rwanda's… Read more »
December 03, 2004
Kenya: Playwright Tries His Hand at the Novel Format
Before The Rooster Crows. Peter Kimani. Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers, 2002. 174 pp. $16.95, cloth. African Books Collective. Read more »
October 12, 2004
Africa: Nobel Laureate Archbishop Tutu Welcomes Peace Prize for Maathai
Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa has warmly welcomed the award of this year's Nobel Peace Prize to environmentalist Wangari Maathai. He also supported the Nobel committee's… Read more »
September 12, 2004
Sudan: Neutral Force and New Government Needed to Pacify Darfur, Says Sudan Rebel Leader John Garang
To stop the killing in the western region of Sudan known as Darfur, a neutral force of 30,000 soldiers is urgently needed, the leader of the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement… Read more »
September 09, 2004
Sudan: Powell Declares Darfur Crisis Is Genocide
Secretary of State Colin Powell testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Thursday that the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan is a genocide. This was his first… Read more »
August 23, 2004
Sudan: Embassy in Washington Closes Doors `Until Further Notice'
Sudan's U.S. embassy in Washington, D.C. closed Monday, according to its official Web site and a notice posted outside the embassy's door. Read more »
August 17, 2004
Congo-Kinshasa: Scramble for Resources in DRC Leads to Massive Deaths, But Scant Attention
With an estimated 3.5 million Congolese dead over the last six years due to war, starvation and disease, the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the… Read more »
August 13, 2004
Africa: Attention for Africa Not Easy In an Election Year - Donald Payne
The following exchange with Rep. Donald M. Payne (Democrat - New Jersey) is one of an ongoing series of conversations about Africa policy in the next U.S. presidential… Read more »
August 06, 2004
Uganda: Human Rights Activist Encouraged by ICC Investigation
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has announced the launch of a formal investigation to see if potential crimes against humanity and war crimes have been committed in Uganda… Read more »
August 04, 2004
Sudan: To Save Lives in Darfur, Back African Peacekeepers and Demand War Crimes Accountability, Says ICG's Prendergast
Nearly four months after President Bush called the situation in Darfur the "worst humanitarian crisis of our time," the international community has responded with resolutions from… Read more »
July 29, 2004
Sudan: Crisis in Darfur Does Not Require Military Intervention, Says U.S. Official
The United States is waiting for Sudan to act responsibly in the Darfur crisis and is not planning a military intervention, said Charles Snyder, principal deputy assistant… Read more »
July 28, 2004
Sudan: U.S. Holocaust Museum Issues First Ever 'Genocide Emergency'
The Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum issued a "genocide emergency" yesterday, red-flagging the continuing violence in Darfur, Sudan. This is… Read more »
July 23, 2004
Sudan: 'Call Darfur a Genocide' Say Coalition Protestors
Hundreds of protestors rallied Thursday in front of the White House, calling on the United States and the UN Security Council to officially call the crisis in Darfur, western… Read more »
July 21, 2004
Rwanda: Ladies First: The Role of Women in Rwanda's Nation Building
In the aftermath of a devastating period of civil war and genocide in the 1990s, the challenges of nation building are the hallmark of today's Rwanda. Currently in Rwanda, the need… Read more »
July 14, 2004
Sudan: U.S. Lawmaker and Church Leader Arrested to Highlight Darfur Deaths
The campaign to highlight the growing humanitarian crisis in Sudan has gotten a publicity boost this week from the arrests at the Sudan Embassy in Washington, DC. of U.S.… Read more »
July 12, 2004
Sudan: Panelists Urge the World to Act on Darfur, Sudan Official Denies Government Involvement
The international community has a responsibility to act immediately to prevent the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Sudanese, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)… Read more »
July 08, 2004
Sudan: Act Now to Stop Dying on a Massive Scale in Darfur, U.S. Lawmakers Urge
A growing chorus of voices in the U.S. Congress is appealing for urgent action to halt the ongoing killings in the Darfur region of Sudan. Two Republican U.S. lawmakers who visited… Read more »
July 07, 2004
Africa: UN Official Implicates HIV in Southern Africa Food Crisis
James Morris, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme, who recently returned from a two-week trip through southern Africa, says there is a humanitarian crisis in the… Read more »
June 24, 2004
Sudan: 'Call the Atrocities In Darfur By Their Rightful Name'
President George Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell were urged Wednesday by a coalition of members of the U.S. Congress and civil society to declare the humanitarian crisis… Read more »
Sudan: U.S. Holocaust Museum Suspends Normal Operations To Call Attention to Darfur
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum suspended regular activities for the first time in its history Thursday for a half hour program on the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan that… Read more »
Sudan: Unicef Takes Out Loans to Bring Aid to Darfur: Less Than 'One Piece of Plastic Per Family'
Julianna Lindsey is a program officer for the United Nations Children's Fund's Humanitarian Response Unit. She traveled through Sudan for five weeks coordinating Unicef support for… Read more »
June 22, 2004
Kenya: Kenya Presses Economic Reforms, Seeks Agoa Extension
Since the election at the end of 2002 of Mwai Kibaki as president of Kenya, replacing Daniel Arap Moi, the new government has embarked on an ambitious program of reform that has… Read more »
June 23, 2004
Sudan: `Genocide Unfolding': Physicians Group Faults Sudan Government, Lack of World Response
As part of a team from Physicians for Human Rights, John Heffernan spent two weeks on the Sudan-Chad border, visiting refugees from western Sudan's Darfur region. About half of the… Read more »
June 18, 2004
Sudan: The World Is Obligated to Prevent Genocide in Darfur
Jerry Fowler is Staff Director of the Committee on Conscience, a division of the U.S. Holocaust Museum created to ensure that genocide never happens again. He visited refugee… Read more »
June 16, 2004
Sudan: U.S. Struggles to Address Situation in Sudan
With an estimated 30,000 killed, and two million displaced by Arab militias in Darfur, western Sudan, the U.S. has vowed to increase pressure on the Khartoum government to stop… Read more »