"Liberia: Sanction May Be Lifted Soon"

Benin: From Liberal to Social Democracy
Benin is undeniably one of Africa's most successful stories in liberal or electoral democracy. From 1990 when she became the first ...

Interview With Jean-Charles Dei, WFP Representative
Over the past five years, civil strife in the northwest of the Central African Republic (CAR) has caused tens of thousands of people to flee, abandoning their farms and villages and leaving the country vulnerable to a food crisis. The unrest continues as the army tries to end attacks by armed groups in the country's northwest. Since December 2005, 10,000 people have fled from there into neighbouring southern Chad and, according the UN World Food Programme (WFP), an equal number of people who stayed in the CAR have fled into the bush. On 21 March IRIN spoke to WFP's representative to the CAR, Jean-Charles Dei, about the food security situation. The following is an excerpt of that interview:

Armed Group Occupies Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad
There's growing insecurity in eastern Chad, where thousands of refugees from Sudan's Darfur region have sought safe haven. The UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, says yesterday a large armed group took over the refugee camp at Goz Amer, which is located about 90 kilometers from the Sudan border. The camp is home to nearly 18,000 refugees. The attack, which left several people dead, took place while food was being distributed.

Congo fever: Prof optimistic
Durban - Health officials are keeping a close watch on a Margate-based nurse and the wife of a man who was admitted to Addington Hospital on Saturday with the potentially deadly Congo fever.

Rwandan Genocide Leader Held in Germany
A Hutu rebel leader implicated in the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and in ongoing massacres in eastern Congo has been detained in Germany, where he had been directing his latest operations. Arrested in the southern city of Mannheim last week was Dr. Ignace Murwanashyaka, the current leader of the movement known as the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), which was responsible along with other forces for the massacre of some 900,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in what has become known as the Rwandan genocide.

Ethiopia Set to Take Over EU Cherry Tomato Market
Ethiopia has a climate so highly favourable to growing cherry tomatoes that it could command a major share of the European tomato market in coming years, said an Israeli tomato growing company.

Guinea Bissau: Not Enough Aid Reaching Communities Stranded By Fighting
Fighting and the planting of lethal landmines in the northwest of Guinea Bissau has isolated some 20,000 people who are struggling to survive on dwindling food reserves and occasional deliveries of food and medicines by canoe.

Liberia: Sanction May Be Lifted Soon
The United Nations' Security Council Sanctions Committee may soon lift the sanctions imposed on timber and diamonds in Liberia.

Oil prices rise above $69 a barrel on Nigeria, Iran worries
NEW YORK - Oil prices rose above $69 a barrel Tuesday amid concerns that Iran's nuclear standoff and violence in Nigeria could hurt supplies, as well as interest in a new fund which allows individual investors to participate in the energy markets.

Zimbabwe: Relief On the Horizon for Market
THE $14 trillion Treasury Bill maturities expected into the money market this month should provide relief to the stock market but could spell doomfor short-term interest rates, analysts said last week.

Zimbabwe: I'm Ready to Die for Zim, Says Tsvangirai
MDC anti-Senate faction president, Morgan Tsvangirai, yesterday declared that he was prepared to die in order to bring about democracy.

Zambia: Freedom Fighters
As the debate raged last week over the plight of Zambia's freedom fighters and the neglect they have suffered under successive governments since independence in 1964, my mind went back to another time and another country where those who had participated in the liberation struggle of their country received the highest honours possible.

Oil deals stoke Western Sahara tension
Tense relations between the separatist Polisario Front movement and the Moroccan government have worsened after recent licensing of oil exploration rights in the Western Sahara.

Immigration and America's Bad Karma
In 1621 the Wampanoags watched as the Pilgrims landed at what is now known as Plymouth Rock. You know the rest of the story. The Indians were killed by warfare and disease. Treaties were broken and land was stolen. The horrific scenario played out across the rest of the nation for almost 300 years. The Iroquois, Seminoles, Choctaws, Lakotas, and Apaches all got the same treatment.

Rwanda: Rwanda Refutes Uganda Diplomat's Expulsion

Sudan opens oil pipeline able to pump 500,000 bpd
Sudan's oil minister on Monday inaugurated its newest pipeline, which will raise oil production to 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) and provide a structure to potentially double output in the coming year.

China wants Sudan's oil
Athens - Anti-poverty campaigner and Live 8 organiser Sir Bob Geldof has accused China of responsibility for the continuing civil war in Sudan's Darfur region.

Protests win citizenship for millions of US Latinos

Gospel Of Judas: His Side Of The Story

Popular indignation is likely to prevail

Viruses 'trained' to build tiny batteries

An Evening with Ann Coulter: Opening Statement

Army of the poor marches Latin America further to left

U.S., EU Cut Off Aid to Palestinians

Three years after looting of Iraqi National Museum: an official whitewash of US crime

U.S. Quits Council Race, Possibly Fearing Defeat

Peru vote causes concern in Chile

Cuba claims drug war victory, without U.S. help

Using the Drug "War" to Expand Government Power

Drug Leniency for the Privileged
Draconian Sentences for Blacks and Latinos

The Corporate Media Begins Their Attack on Ollanta Humala, Candidate for President in Peru

North Carolina man tells Bush certain simple truths

Wiretapping on the increase in Europe

Supply-and-demand solutions

America's war on the web

First Death from Walkouts

The world's biggest prison system

US propaganda magnifies Zarqawi threat

Peru on path to US clash

Indian Support Helps Peru's Humala Advance

Poisoning Our Children

'Honor Crimes'

Flint heads were Neolithic tooth drill of choice

The fish that crawled out of the water

Fish that walked on land is missing link in evolution

Design software weakens classic drawing skills

Suspect boycotts Guantanamo trial

Democracy's Northward March

US Frustration in Its Desire to Dominate Cuba

A Nation of Colonists ... and Race Laws
The Politics of Immigration

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