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  • Horn of Africa Nations Face Food Shortages 24 Jul 2008 15:28 GMT
    ... over coming months. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says 1.2 million people in Kenya alone ... an escalation of the crises. Meanwhile, the UN World Food Programme said it urgently needs $400 ... along with northern parts of Kenya and Uganda. Economic events outside Africa, which are driving up ...

  • African Great Lakes Officials At UN Gathering On Women's Rights Research Centre 24 Jul 2008 15:28 GMT
    ... are gathering today in Kinshasa for a United Nations-organized conference to take steps to set up ... the Congolese capital, jointly organized by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and ... Congo, the DRC, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia are expected to attend this ...

  • Africa: Horn of Africa Nations Face Food Shortages 24 Jul 2008 15:06 GMT
    ... over coming months. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says 1.2 million people in Kenya alone ... an escalation of the crises. Meanwhile, the UN World Food Programme said it urgently needs $400 ... along with northern parts of Kenya and Uganda. Economic events outside Africa, which are driving up ...

  • UNCTAD IP Activities Rise With Renewed Mandate; Greater Collaboration 24 Jul 2008 13:29 GMT
    ... be a clear policy focus of the United Nations Conference On Trade and Development (UNCTAD) as ... has been named by two other prominent UN agencies as a key stakeholder in this ... joint venture for generic HIV medicine in Uganda, he said, adding, however, “The decision whether ...

  • AFRICA/SUDAN - Sudan's President on a promotional visit to Darfur 24 Jul 2008 12:39 GMT
    ... El-Fasher, in the north, headquarters of the UN-African Union joint peace-keeping force; Nyala, in the ... of Sudan, Salva Kiir, have asked in Uganda’s capital of Kampala, where they are visiting, that ...

  • Somali Islamist Vows Aid Protection 24 Jul 2008 11:47 GMT
    ... others have been abducted, according to the United Nations. Many aid groups have already scaled down ... their operations in parts of Somalia. The UN World Food Program (WFP) warns that violence ... It is currently made up of 2,600 Ugandan and Burundian troops. Abdallah also told the ...

  • 14 million face famine in east Africa 24 Jul 2008 11:47 GMT
    ... that millions of people in Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Djibouti and Kenya are fast being pushed "towards ... hunger and destitution". Earlier this week the UN said it needed £200m to avert a humanitarian ...

  • SUDAN: Send In The Lawyers, Nothing Else Works 24 Jul 2008 10:59 GMT
    ... Darfur and thumbing his nose at the United Nations. Issuing the warrant may make reaching a ... more difficult. The ICC's decision to indict Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony is an example. ... can travel to Eritrea (which hates the UN) and North Korea – assuming he doesn't ...

  • AU urges UN to take over Somalia 24 Jul 2008 10:08 GMT
    ... the situation in Somalia and urged the United Nations take over peacekeeping operations in the lawless ... The sole suppliers of AMISOM peacekeepers were Uganda and Burundi, though Nigeria and others had ... others urged the council to authorise the UN to take over from the AU the ...

  • Somalia 'needs' early deployment 24 Jul 2008 10:08 GMT
    ... Wednesday urged the early deployment of a United Nations peacekeeping or stabilising force on its soil ... needed first. "We are hoping that the UN Security Council will make a decision in ... It was made up of 2 600 Ugandan and Burundian troops. Another option, Ould Abdallah ...

  • UN official, Ugandan rebel commander hold talks"> 24 Jul 2008 08:56 GMT
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  • Bashir offers Darfur peace, development 24 Jul 2008 06:02 GMT
    ... ICC move not with violence, as the UN feared he might, but by forming a united ... Kiir told reporters during a trip to Uganda. “The Sudanese government should be allowed to implement ...

  • HORN OF AFRICA NATIONS FACES FOOD SHORTAGES 24 Jul 2008 05:29 GMT
    ... over coming months. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says 1.2 million people in Kenya alone ... an escalation of the crises. Meanwhile, the UN World Food Programme says it urgently needs $400m ... along with northern parts of Kenya and Uganda. Economic events outside Africa - which are driving ...

  • Africa: OAU Summit Hears Warnings of 'Oblivion' if Conflicts Continue 24 Jul 2008 04:32 GMT
    ... state and government, as well as the United Nations' secretary-general, Kofi Annan, attended the opening ... Buyoya, as well as Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Rwanda's Paul Kagame and President Daniel arap ...

  • Food crisis looms in East Africa 24 Jul 2008 04:29 GMT
    ... and rocketing food and fuel prices, the United Nations has warned. The UN World Food Programme says it urgently needs ... along with northern parts of Kenya and Uganda. Dire consequences Economic events outside Africa - ...

  • Int'l Court indicts Sudan's leader with genocide 24 Jul 2008 04:29 GMT
    ... A. A. Mohamed, Sudanese ambassador to the United Nations Instead of assisting in Darfur, Mr. Bashir ... phone conversation and the secretary-general stressed the UN does not have any influence over the ... sent arms to Eritrea and Ethiopia and Uganda. So all along the border of Sudan, ...

  • Rwanda: Journalist Exiled in France Blames Press Council 24 Jul 2008 04:27 GMT
    ... part, she says she was working in Uganda as an 'independent journalist' but had to relocate to France ... of a documentary 'Kigali, des images contre un massacre' by Jean-Christophe Klotz. ...

  • East Africa: Millions of People in Dire Need of Food Aid 24 Jul 2008 04:25 GMT
    ... in the Horn of Africa. According to UN agencies, 1.2 million people in the country are ... the Horn of Africa are Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Eritrea and Djibouti. Of the six countries, Ethiopia ...

  • Africa: International Criminal Court Indictments for Genocide - Who'll Bell the Cats? [opinion] 24 Jul 2008 04:25 GMT
    ... Africa. Aside from the Dirty Five from Uganda, there have been two Congolese, one Liberian and, lately, ... into Belgium does not wash. Can't this UN-supported court send in commandos to spirit out ...

  • Africa: Can the ICC Deliver True Justice Across the World? [column] 24 Jul 2008 04:25 GMT
    ... alarmed at what I see in many Ugandan lawyers. Basically, most are little different from ... slavishly does their bidding, even though the United Nations' own investigations a few years ago ...

  • Force Commander Says Darfur is War Zone 24 Jul 2008 04:25 GMT
    ... to respond urgently to a rescue operation only to find 7 men from Rwanda, Uganda and Ghana dead, with 22 wounded from a deadly attack by militias. These brave ...

  • Sudan: Delay Arrest of Bashir, Says Southern President 24 Jul 2008 04:25 GMT
    ... Juba talks, Kiir said the three countries, Uganda, South Sudan and Congo, had been consulting and were ... countries were waiting for a report from UN envoy Joaquim Chissano and South Sudan's Vice-President Riek ...

  • Delay Arrest of Bashir, Says Southern President 24 Jul 2008 04:25 GMT
    ... Juba talks, Kiir said the three countries, Uganda, South Sudan and Congo, had been consulting and were ... countries were waiting for a report from UN envoy Joaquim Chissano and South Sudan's Vice-President Riek ...

  • Sudan: ICC Must Not Have Double Standards [opinion] 24 Jul 2008 04:25 GMT
    ... The United Nations Security Council resolution 1593 of March 2005 ... Britain and America invaded Iraq without a UN resolution to back their military action on ... genocide in Rwanda and massacres in northern Uganda. The Security Council has powers to pass ...

  • Sudan: Force Commander Says Darfur is War Zone 24 Jul 2008 04:25 GMT
    ... to respond urgently to a rescue operation only to find 7 men from Rwanda, Uganda and Ghana dead, with 22 wounded from a deadly attack by militias. These brave ...


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