US President George Bush’s call for increased pressure on Iraq won some guarded support abroad on Tuesday. But his strongly worded attack on Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, and hints of unilateral action, deepened concerns over the possibility of war.
More than 500 000 people in two provinces of Mozambique would need food aid until next year, according to a UN report.
Kenyan president Daniel Arap Moi on Monday urged the first world to further alleviate the debt burden of poor countries.
No white farmer in Zimbabwe was being left without land, and none of them wanted to leave the country, Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe told the World Summit on Sustainable Development on Monday.
More than 60% of people living in Angola’s 305 rural villages suffer from onchocerciasis, or River Blindness, a disease causing serious visual impairment.
The United States and the international conservation movement on Wednesday pledged a total of ,5-million to save threatened Congo basin forests.
South African President Thabo Mbeki lauded the newly-formed African Union as an engine for transforming the continent and he urged African leaders to work together to build the continent’s infrastructure and to fight poverty.
The political turmoil in Zimbabwe will not jeopardise Africa’s efforts to attract foreign aid and pursue economic reforms, the chairman of Commonwealth nations said on Saturday.
Southern Africa was facing catastrophe unless food aid was provided immediately for an estimated seven million people currently experiencing famine, the World Health Organisation said on Monday.
More than 900 people died and property worth -million was destroyed in a communal clash in the Nigerian city of Jos last September, according to the judge heading an official inquiry.