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April 2001

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April 2001

» 30.04.2001 - Kenyan minister explains closure of tv/radio station 
» 30.04.2001 - "Rampant torture" by Liberian security forces 
» 30.04.2001 - Somalia's Internet market awaiting full peace 

» 29.04.2001 - Large Mozambican investment in telecommunication 
» 29.04.2001 - Soon clinical trials of malaria vaccine in Gambia 

» 28.04.2001 - UN concerned about Comoros situation 
» 28.04.2001 - Food aid for Eritrean drought vicitms tripled 
» 28.04.2001 - Campaign to free Tunisian human rights lawyer  

» 27.04.2001 - 180,000 refugees to go back to Eritrea 
» 27.04.2001 - Rwandan bishop charged with genocide 
» 27.04.2001 - Guinea refuses stationing of ECOWAS troops 

» 26.04.2001 - Zimbabwe reporter sues minister and newspaper
» 26.04.2001 - Significant progress fighting malaria in Africa 
» 26.04.2001 - UN says Angolan rebels are not seeking peace 
» 26.04.2001 - Botswana woman politicians unhappy about media cover 
» 26.04.2001 - Saharawi leaders illegally arrested in Morocco 
» 26.04.2001 - Kenyan private press raided by police 
» 26.04.2001 - Torture complaints on Mauritius "need investigation" 
» 26.04.2001 - Police hinder press meeting DRC opposition leader 

» 25.04.2001 - President Mbeki pays fine to Lesotho king 
» 25.04.2001 - "African leaders hide political woes behind homophobia" 
» 25.04.2001 - Still no progress in Western Sahara 
» 25.04.2001 - Lake Chad has shrunk into "a ghost" 
» 25.04.2001 - Economic slowdown "particularly damaging" in Africa  

» 24.04.2001 - UN asks Senegal to hold ex-Chad dictator 
» 24.04.2001 - Chadian government prohibits political radio debates 
» 24.04.2001 - Placing African art within global context 
» 24.04.2001 - Protests against defamation provision in Algiers 
» 24.04.2001 - Tuberculosis follows footsteps of AIDS in Africa 

» 23.04.2001 - Dubious coup attempt in Burundi 
» 23.04.2001 - Aid for Makeni children in Sierra Leone resumed 
» 23.04.2001 - Malawi president "must speak out" on third term 
» 23.04.2001 - Polarising Zimbabwe Independence Day celebrations 

» 22.04.2001 - Parliament prepares exit of Guinea-Bissau government 

» 21.04.2001 - Congolese civilians victims of foreign troops' exploitation 
» 21.04.2001 - Swazi queen leaves kingdom in wake of poison claims 

» 20.04.2001 - Amnesty for Gambian killer police officers 
» 20.04.2001 - Drug companies drop lawsuit against South Africa 

» 19.04.2001 - Legal action against reported polluter explored in SA

» 18.04.2001 - Child slavery on agenda after Beninese boat affair 
» 18.04.2001 - Amnesty demands answers on Spanish Equatoguinean cooperation
» 18.04.2001 - Berbera port holds key to Somaliland future

» 17.04.2001 - Despite pressure, Bush reluctant to toughen Sudan policy
» 17.04.2001 - Call to review proclamation of year of eco-tourism 

» 16.04.2001 - Kenyan musicians barely survive on their art 

» 15.04.2001 - Trend of women bleaching their skin growing

» 14.04.2001 - SADC puts on a new face  
» 14.04.2001 - Botswana worried about Zimbabwe state of emergency threat 

» 13.04.2001 - Zimbabwe farmers still waiting for alternative farms 
» 13.04.2001 - Moves to eliminate child labour in Southern Africa  
» 13.04.2001 - Cape Verde increasing infrastructure investments 

» 12.04.2001 - Good harvest around Gulf of Guinea 
» 12.04.2001 - Several arrests after death during violence in Malawi 
» 12.04.2001 - "Stop negotiating with Sierra Leonean RUF" 
» 12.04.2001 - Call for "justice, not impunity" in The Gambia 

» 11.04.2001 - Zimbabwe lawyer attacked 
» 11.04.2001 - Nujoma 'ready' for fourth term 
» 11.04.2001 - Sahelian food situation mostly encouraging 
» 11.04.2001 - Food crisis through warfare in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia 
» 11.04.2001 - "Peace in Angola when Savimbi lays down his weapons" 
» 11.04.2001 - Equatorial Guinea reacts to UN human rights report 

» 10.04.2001 - 8.8 million affected by food shortage on the Horn 
» 10.04.2001 - Great Lakes conflicts produce exceptional food emergency 
» 10.04.2001 - Drought still felt in Kenya and Tanzania 
» 10.04.2001 - Sudan slips into new famine 
» 10.04.2001 - African food supply for 2001 expected to be "very tight"  
» 10.04.2001 - Sexual and reproductive health education to combat AIDS in Lesotho 
» 10.04.2001 - South African unions face globalisation 
» 10.04.2001 - "Unsustainable EU bid for Senegalese fisheries" 

» 09.04.2001 - New Zimbabwe Broadcasting Act scares media 
» 09.04.2001 - Chad prepares for presidential elections 
» 09.04.2001 - Guinea-Bissau opposition asks government to step down 
» 09.04.2001 - Ghana: Rapid growth in Internet use despite cost constraints 

» 08.04.2001 - Social project in Madagascar conflicts with environment 

» 07.04.2001 - Zambian Chiluba determined to fight for his third term  
» 07.04.2001 - Somali editor released over lesbian's death sentence 
» 07.04.2001 - Tables turned in Ghanaian witch case 
» 07.04.2001 - Miriam Makeba finds audience in Mozambican fishermen 

» 06.04.2001 - Zimbabwe may declare state of emergency 
» 06.04.2001 - "Refugees are not advised to cross RUF-held areas" 
» 06.04.2001 - WTO concedes to African request on drug patents 

» 05.04.2001 - Kabila fires Congolese government 
» 05.04.2001 - Southern Africa's indegenous resources fall prey to biopiracy 
» 05.04.2001 - Hostage crisis in Somalia solved 
» 05.04.2001 - Africa presses WTO on drug patents 

» 04.04.2001 - Protests against secret execution in Botswana  
» 04.04.2001 - Kruger park sale of white rhinos disputed 
» 04.04.2001 - "RUF still kills and rapes Sierra Leoneans" 
» 04.04.2001 - Sierra Leonean women's testimonies on rape by RUF terrorists 
» 04.04.2001 - Emergency relief for flood-ravaged Malawi 

» 03.04.2001 - Malawi bishops "won't overreact to rumours" 
» 03.04.2001 - "Sierra Leonean RUF tired of war" 
» 03.04.2001 - Zimbabwe Minister sues paper for Z$ 450,000  
» 03.04.2001 - Angolan army hunting down rebel leader Savimbi 
» 03.04.2001 - "Climate of terror" in Congo Kinshasa 

» 02.04.2001 - Worldbank calls for halving world's poverty 
» 02.04.2001 - Round-up gays, urges President Nujoma 
» 02.04.2001 - Tanzania conducts studies on AIDS vaccine 

» 01.04.2001 - Césaria Évora to cooperate with "Ferro Gaita" 
» 01.04.2001 - Mozambican media quarrel over president's son 
» 01.04.2001 - Algeria attacks European Union on human rights 
» 01.04.2001 - Rwandan human rights situation improves significantly 

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