July 21, 2003
West Africa: International Indecision As Crisis Deepens In Liberia
The Liberian capital of Monrovia is experiencing some of its worst fighting in seven years, following a weekend of heavy bombardment as rebel forces advanced into the city center… Read more »
July 17, 2003
Central Africa: Rwanda's Kagame Promises Fair Election, Cautious on Prospects for Peace in Great Lakes Region
Rwandans go to the polls next month in the first presidential elections since the genocide in 1994, when between 800,000 and one million Tutsi and moderate Hutu were killed by Hutu… Read more »
Liberia: With the Ceasefire Timetable Expiring, Liberia Needs a Peace Plan, Sirleaf Says
When Liberia's political parties, warring factions and government agreed last month on a ceasefire to halt the fighting that was engulfing their capital, Monrovia, they gave… Read more »
July 16, 2003
West Africa: Ghana's President Expects Taylor to Quit Liberia 'in a Week or So'
"We welcome American troops, Ecowas troops as well as UN troops. All in line with peace." The words of Liberias Information Minister, Reginald Goodridge, speaking on Tuesday. … Read more »
July 14, 2003
West Africa: Bush Promises Annan 'Support' For Liberia Peacekeepers, Troops Likely To Be Few
In an Oval office meeting with President George W. Bush, Monday, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan continued pressing for U.S. troop deployment in Liberia but got no… Read more »
July 11, 2003
Liberia: Don't Cut Deal On Liberia With Taylor, Urge Congressional Witnesses
"Liberia is a case of failure of prevention," the Director of the United Nations Africa Division, Youssef Mahmoud, told the Congressional Human Rights Caucus Wednesday.… Read more »
July 06, 2003
West Africa: Obasanjo Offers and Taylor Accepts Exit to Nigeria, But Timing Remains Unclear
Following a 90-minute meeting at Monrovia's International Airport Sunday afternoon, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and Liberia's President Charles Taylor announced that an… Read more »
July 04, 2003
Africa: When We See Suffering, We Will Not Turn Away - George Bush
The message U.S. President George W. Bush says he is bringing to Africa is that America cares about Africa's future and that it is in the U.S. national interest for Africa to… Read more »
July 03, 2003
Africa: Bush 'Still Deciding' on Whether to Send Troops to Liberia
U.S. President George W. Bush says he wants to get enough information before he makes a decision on whether to send troops to Liberia: "I'm in the process of gathering the… Read more »
Africa: US Africa Policies Look Good but Lack Substance, Say Critics
Apparently compassionate U.S. initiatives for Africa such as the promise of $15bn to help fight HIV/Aids are "at this moment, fictitious, because they remain unfunded" and… Read more »
July 01, 2003
Liberia: Bush Pressed To Commit 'Boots On The Ground' in Liberia
A decade after 18 U.S. Army Rangers were killed by an angry mob in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, the Bush administration is facing mounting pressure to put American 'boots on… Read more »
June 29, 2003
West Africa: With Shaky Liberia Truce in Place, Pressure Grows for U.S / International Intervention
It has been another busy and bloody week in Liberia. For the second time in ten days, rebels seeking to overthrow President Charles Taylor attempted to storm the capital Monrovia. Read more »
June 18, 2003
West Africa: Tough Challenges Ahead For Liberia Peace Pact
No-one is hailing the ceasefire agreed in Ghana on Tuesday between Liberian adversaries as the end of that country's civil war. But most people, especially Liberians, are hoping it… Read more »
June 15, 2003
West Africa: Reporters Notebook: The Quest for Peace in Liberia
It was one week after the United Nations-backed Special Court in Sierra Leone announced the indictment of Liberian President Charles Taylor, and I was having a drink with Cyril… Read more »
June 10, 2003
West Africa: Talks in Ghana Delayed as West Africa Pursues a Truce in Liberia
With fighting intensifying in Liberia, the peace conference that opened here last week has taken a pause while West African leaders seek to broker a truce between the warring… Read more »
June 05, 2003
West Africa: 'If I Stand in the Way of Peace,' I'll Quit, Says Taylor
With reports circulating that Liberian President Charles Taylor had been indicted by a United Nations-backed tribunal, the 55-year old former warlord made an unexpected offer to… Read more »
June 04, 2003
West Africa: Taylor at Accra Peace Talks: "Honourable Exit or Extended Mandate?"
Liberian political leaders and activists are arriving here in the Ghanaian capital to take part in what could be the country's most important peace effort since the outbreak of war… Read more »
May 20, 2003
Liberia: Increased Pressure on Taylor as France Welcomes Opposition Leader
For the first time since Charles Taylor became president of Liberia six years ago, the French foreign ministry has held official consultations with the leader of Liberia's… Read more »