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/ 11 November 2005
A senior United States envoy and Sudan’s vice-president discussed their efforts to bring peace to troubled Darfur on Friday. Also on Friday, the US moved to cement ties with the autonomous government of southern Sudan by opening a consulate in the south. The consulate is to be housed for the time being in a Red Cross compound.
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/ 10 November 2005
A shouting match on Thursday between a senior United States envoy and a Darfur government official illustrated the difficulties of peacemaking in the restive region of western Sudan. The United Nations estimates that 180 000 people have died, mainly through famine and disease.
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/ 16 September 2005
Researchers in Kenya and South Africa are using cellphone technology to gather information on elephants, cheetahs, leopards and other animals. The relatively cheap tracking device includes a no-frills cellphone that is put in a weatherproof case with a GPS receiver, memory card and software to operate the system. The unit, placed on a collar, is then tied around the neck of a wild animal.
A black-clad choir, many with tears streaming down their cheeks, sang a mournful song of peace on Saturday at the start of the funeral of southern leader and first vice-president John Garang de Mabior, who was killed last week in a helicopter crash. Several heads of state were in the audience.
A television journalist who was slapped by Kenyan First Lady Lucy Kibaki has filed a formal complaint with the police, charging her with assault and calling for her arrest. ”In terms of justice being served, I am keeping my fingers crossed,” said Clifford Derrick, adding that he has already received several calls warning him to be careful.
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President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party secured a two-thirds majority on Saturday, winning 71 seats which along with 30 seats appointed directly by the president carried it to a major victory. Mugabe (81) will now be able to rewrite his country’s Constitution unopposed.
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/ 9 February 2005
Kenya is taking seriously the political message behind the United States move to suspend ,5-million in funding for anti-corruption work in the country, Minister of Justice Kiraitu Murungi said on Wednesday. The suspension came one day after Kenyan presidential anti-corruption adviser John Githongo resigned.
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/ 4 February 2005
Margaret Ashira, sitting in a tin-roofed shack in Africa’s largest slum, owes her survival to private charity groups who donate treatment. She believes her own government could do more to help her and other people living with Aids if it weren’t haemorrhaging money to pay the interest on its huge foreign debt.
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/ 21 January 2005
The narrow gravel airstrip in the dusty, desolate town of Rumbek has been a hive of activity since rebel and government leaders signed a historic peace accord officially ending Africa’s longest-running civil war. Businessmen, aid workers and diplomats have rushed to set up a presence in what is set to become the provisional capital of southern Sudan.
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/ 12 January 2005
British Treasury chief Gordon Brown began a six-day visit to Africa on Wednesday by touring a school in what some say is the largest slum in Africa, to see the impact of Kenya’s free primary education policy on efforts to cut poverty. Brown plans to use his trip to Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and South Africa to step up his appeal for greater international commitment to tackling global poverty.