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- East Africa: Drop in Lake Level Worries UN 7 Sep 2008 07:29 GMT
... has pledged to work closely with East African Community to address concerns over falling water levels ... Water Development ministers from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi that the issue was not only of ...
- No peacekeepers for Somalia - UN 7 Sep 2008 06:59 GMT
... New York - The United Nations Security Council on Thursday turned down a ... political process and security situation in the African nation. Somalia in August called on the council ... by 2 600 troops from Uganda and Burundi. But African diplomats said the United Nations should take ...
- UN peacekeepers ready for Somalia 7 Sep 2008 06:59 GMT
... THE Security Council hailed a recent UN-brokered inter-Somali peace deal and restated its readiness ... UN peacekeepers in the lawless Horn of African country. It unanimously adopted a non-binding statement that ... currently made up of 2600 Ugandan and Burundian troops. Some leading Islamist officials and military commanders ...
- Sunday, September 14 7 Sep 2008 05:07 GMT
... New York at the site of the United Nations' world headquarters. 1959 - The Soviet space ... Palestinian self-rule. 1994 - Tropical storms in north-central Africa kill about 100 people. 1995 - NATO ...
- TNA representatives meet UN envoy 7 Sep 2008 04:36 GMT
... Lakhdar Brahimi, the Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General Mr. Kofi Annan, in Colombo. The ... number of countries, including Iraq, Afganistan, South Africa, Haiti, Congo, Yemen, Liberia, Nigeria and Sudan. Before coming to the ...
- Ugandan rebel leader might sign peace agreement over the weekend 6 Sep 2008 21:26 GMT
... Machar said he would travel to the Sudanese-Congolese border on Saturday to meet with Kony in the ... travel with the former Mozambican President and United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for LRA affected areas, ... Minister of Internal Affairs, Ruhakana Rugunda and African Union observers’ team and United Nations facilitators are ...
- Zim gets top WHO post 6 Sep 2008 19:32 GMT
... the World Health Organisation Regional Committee for Africa — the United Nations agency’s governing body in the region. This ... for Health Ministers, which ended in Yaounde, Cameroon, yesterday. In a telephone interview from Yaounde, Dr ...
- Congo-Kinshasa: Search for Passengers On Downed Aid Plane in East Continues - UN 6 Sep 2008 06:31 GMT
... 17 people on board - including seven United Nations staff - crashed in the east of ... east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the search for passengers continued today. "However, given that ... Civil Aviation authorities, Air Serv and South African special rescue teams, all of whom have combined ...
- South Africa: Diplomatic Mission Helping to Get Body of SA Pilot Repatriated 6 Sep 2008 06:31 GMT
... to the web 4 September 2008 South Africa's diplomatic mission in Kinshasa is currently liaising ... is currently liaising with officers from the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) to have the remains of a South African pilot ...
- Africa: Continent's Ministers Agree to Roll Out Vaccine to Fight Meningitis - UN Agency 6 Sep 2008 06:02 GMT
... 5 September 2008 Health ministers from sub-Saharan Africa's "meningitis belt" pledged today to introduce a ... people against the deadly disease, at a United Nations-backed conference held in Cameroon. The Yaoundé Declaration, agreed by the ministers attending the ...
- Operation Sarkozy : how the CIA placed one of its agents at the presidency of the French Republic 6 Sep 2008 05:56 GMT
... the way to Soviet influence in Northern Africa, the United States decided to provoke a military ... (1961 and 1967); refuses the deployment of UN helmets into Congo (1961); encourages the Latin American states to become free ...
- Canadian killed in Congo plane crash remembered for expertise, kindness 6 Sep 2008 04:49 GMT
... plane crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a spokeswoman for his employer said Wednesday. ... its intended destination of Bukavu near the Rwandan border. Mills said the rugged terrain and ... website. Officials with Cem Air, a South African commercial company that owned the aircraft, confirmed Tuesday ...
- UNHCR helps Congolese refugees return home across Lake Tanganyika 5 Sep 2008 21:07 GMT
... UNHCR helps Congolese refugees return home across Lake Tanganyika Reuters and ... three months and a shelter kit. "The UN refugee agency in the DRC further supports ... explained Marie-Christine Bocoum, deputy director of UNHCR's Africa Bureau, during a recent visit to Kigoma to ...
- Alarm-Bells Ring at Upsurge in Fighting 5 Sep 2008 20:49 GMT
... as militias clash with army in eastern Congo, amid reports of new child soldier recruitment ... 2007 Nairobi agreement between the Congolese and Rwandan governments to disarm and repatriate the Democratic ... the US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, has spoken to Congolese president Joseph Kabila, ...
- Africa: Britain, World Bank Launch Plan for Aid 5 Sep 2008 18:32 GMT
... Posted to the web 5 September 2008 Britain ... backed by the World Bank ,and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as well as the ... it should be achieving," said Mr Douglas. Rwanda's Finance Minister James Musconi was among those present during ...
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