An extract from "The Washington File - Africa edition" Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Bellamy told the House subcommittee on Africa that elections in Sierra Leone mark a major...
Sierra Leone + 4 more
Sierra Leone + 4 more
An extract from "The Washington File - Africa edition" Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Bellamy told the House subcommittee on Africa that elections in Sierra Leone mark a major...
From MAREK Business Briefs 4 Apr 2000 Mozambique Mozambican sugar production is affected by flooding. PANA reported on March 14 that all of Mozambique's operational sugar companies have been badly...
The severe floods lashing Southern Africa over the past six weeks have had localized impacts on some markets in Mozambique, but no discernable regional effect on white maize prices or price...
Late-breaking editor's note: Our mst recent report says that the USAF MC-130P is airborne at this time conducting a reconnaissance mission looking for thesed 20,000 people. Guillaume de Montravel,...
The point she has made, however, is not trivial, and will require Africans to come to grips with their hangover from the colonial period and the realities of the demands created by emergencies ---...
Burundi is a country mired in eternal war, with no obvious way out. Everything in Burundi is dictated by the rebels --- people cannot work the fields because of the rebel threat, they cannot fish...
Angola today stands as a real testimony to what happens when you just don't give a damn January 25, 2000 - The dos Santos government has been boasting of victory after victory, it has told the world...
DR Congo + 2 more
Machete-wielding Rwandan rebels attacked a resettlement camp in northwestern Rwanda, hacking to death at least 30 people and injuring scores of others. AP reported that the attack occurred in Tamera,...
Congo + 2 more
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Congo Republic government have started an operation to integrate Rwandan refugees into Congolese society. IPS reported on December 21...
Angolan military forces (FAA) have announced the capture of the traditional UNITA stronghold at Jamba in southeast Angola, and say they have secured the entire border with Namibia, meaning that UNITA...
UN Security Council hears warning of potential violence against Tutsis in South Kivu, the Kabila government charges Rwanda buried 15 women alive in the east, and Kinshasa moves to a full war footing...
There are plentiful ways to die in Burundi, and now a cholera epidemic in the squalid displaced peoples' camps in the country are killing as well. Louis Kamwenubusa reported for Reuters on December...
Albert Siassia and his French-born wife, Annie Siassia have filed a suit in the Paris tribunal against President Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Congo Republic for atrocities committed against them...
Understanding the situation on the ground in Angola remains almost impossible for the public at large. Xinhua has reported, however, on November 30 that Angolan rebels have launched a new round of...
How can this be? Angola's oil discoveries are said to be major, the price of oil is now over $25 per barrel, and the government says it has routed UNITA and is pushing for the final kill Reuters...
Burundi + 3 more
Six years of fighting, 20 percent of the population displaced, 200,000 dead November 22, 1999 - Writing for Reuters on November 22, Simon Denyer has described the situation in Burundi as well as it...
DR Congo + 2 more
More than 100,000 Congolese displaced and up to 7,000 dead in fighting since summer, all on Uganda's doorstep in the Ugandan zone of occupation The humanitarian situation in the northeast district of...
It appears nine are dead, seven wounded from violent attack at Muzye refugee camp in southeast Burundi The chief of UNICEF Burundi, the second in command of the United Nations World Food Program...
Pope John Paul has described the Angolan war as one of the worst humanitarian crises in Africa and the Pope warned that it threatened to engulf the entire region. Reuters reported that Pope John said...
DR Congo + 2 more
The death toll being reported by DR Congo MLC rebels from the alleged Sudanese Antonov bombing run in northwest DR Congo is now at 524 and rising. Todd Pitman reported for Reuters and Hravoje...