United Nations

  • May 8, 2003
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EAST AFRICA: AIDS vaccine trials

Earlier this year, a series of clinical trials of preventative AIDS vaccines began in Entebbe,...

Africa
  • May 8, 2003
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US/IRAQ/UN: Sanctions moves

The Bush administration announced yesterday that it was ending several US unilateral sanction...

United States
  • May 5, 2003
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FRANCE/AFRICA: Policy contradictions

Despite France's high and often controversial political profile in Africa, the cooperative...

France
  • May 2, 2003
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BURUNDI: Presidential hand-over

Outgoing Tutsi head of state Pierre Bulimia handed over power to his Hutu successor, Dominican...

Burundi
  • May 2, 2003
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LIBERIA/SIERRA LEONE: Harbouring fugitives?

President Charles Taylor has been warned to hand over two Revolutionary United Front (RUF)...

Sierra Leone
  • Apr 30, 2003
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LIBERIA: Humanitarian crisis

A security pact agreed on April 27 by Liberian President Charles Taylor and Ivoirien President...

Liberia
  • Apr 30, 2003
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RUSSIA/IRAQ: Post-conflict policy

President Vladimir Putin told visiting UK Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday that Russia did not...

Russia
  • Apr 28, 2003
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UNITED NATIONS: Post-Iraq standing

The Security Council's deadlock over whether to support the war on Iraq revealed not only...

United Nations