The News Review:
- The devils dancing on the water; Sierra Leone.(In the Land of Magic…
- US abandons African AIDS programme
- Pakistan seeks UN role along LoC
- Liberia: House Queries Obasanjo’s N8.4bn Spending.
The devils dancing on the water; Sierra Leone.(In the Land of Magic…
highbeam.com – Aug 30, 2003
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US abandons African AIDS programme
Pakistan Dawn – Aug 30, 2003
However, organizations that work on reproductive health and Aids argue that the decision betrays the Bush administration’s wider hostility to abortion. Its commitment to a rightwing Christian agenda has led it to promote abstinence as a strategy against HIV-Aids in preference to condoms, they say. The present funding cut is curious because Marie Stopes is just one of seven agencies involved in a project to promote HIV- Aids prevention and awareness in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Sudan, as well as in Sri Lanka, Asia. The other partners are the International Rescue Committee, Care, the American Refugee Committee, the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children, John Snow International and Columbia University’s department of population and family health. News of the cuts emerged barely six weeks after Mr Bush toured five African states to launch a $15bn Aids initiative. It was later cut back drastically, with Congress approving just $2bn of the $3bn sought in the first year. A State Department official conceded that the consortium was doing good work.
Pakistan seeks UN role along LoC
Pakistan Dawn – Aug 30, 2003
The Security Council meeting which was convened to consider “the Contribution of Peacekeeping to International Peace and Security” was informed that only 45 military observers are expected to maintain the most tenuous of ceasefires in this dangerous flashpoint. On Pakistan ’s role in UN peacekeeping operations, Mr Akram said: “Pakistan is one of the oldest, largest, and most consistent contributors of UN peacekeeping troops. Pakistan has participated in over 25 UN peacekeeping operations in the last four decades in Somalia, Bosnia, Sierra Leone and other places. com Banner Code ————– –>. floor(99999999 * Math.
Liberia: House Queries Obasanjo’s N8.4bn Spending.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 30, 2003
(From This Day (Nigeria) – AAGM) Byline: Deji Elumoye NBA, in Enugu, wants Charles Taylor tried The House of Representatives has queried the decision of President Olusegun Obasanjo to spend the entire 2003 defence budget of N8. 4bn on Liberia peace-keeping operations without recourse to the National Assembly. The query of the lower chamber of the National Assembly is coming just as the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) rose from its annual conference in Enugu with a call on the Federal Governm-ent to release former President of Liberia, Mr Charles Taylor, now in Nigeria on asylum, for trial over his role in war-torn Liberia and neighbouring Sierra Leone. The House of Represen-tatives said it was piqued by the one-off release by President Obasanjo of N8. 4 billion capital expenditure appropriated in the 2003 budget for the Ministry of Defence for peace-keeping operations in Libera. President Obasanjo had explained that moving Nigerian soldiers to Liberia for the operations was not going to cost the country anything, save for the kitting and.