REUTERS - 02.11.2008 - By Hez Holland
GOMA, Congo (Reuters) - A United Nations aid convoy protected by U.N. peacekeepers will head into a rebel-held zone of east Congo on Monday to try to reach tens of thousands of civilians displaced by fighting, the U.N. said on Sunday.
The convoy will group staff and resources from U.N. agencies and humanitarian NGOs. It will leave Goma, capital of Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province, and travel north to Rutshuru, taken by Tutsi rebels on Tuesday.
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BBC News, Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Zimbabwe’s main opposition party has called for new elections, after regional talks on the power-sharing deal were postponed for a week.
New polls are the “only way forward”, Movement for Democratic Change spokesman Nelson Chamisa told the BBC.
Neighbouring Botswana has also called for new elections.
The MDC and the ruling Zanu-PF agreed to share power last month but they cannot agree on the details. A BBC reporter says there is a lack of trust.
The BBC’s Jonah Fisher in Johannesburg says the atmosphere between the two parties is absolutely toxic.
A summit in Swaziland to discuss the deadlocked power-sharing agreement was postponed after the MDC insisted that its leader Morgan Tsvangirai be granted a passport.
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Guardian Newspaper Friday, October 17, 2008
SUDANESE President Omar al-Bashir has launched his “people’s initiative” for peace in Darfur with an elaborate ceremony attended by regional dignitaries but no rebels involved in fighting.
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From Ahamefula Ogbu in Port Harcourt, 10.19.2008 Thisday newspaper
President of the Economic Community of West African States Commi-ssion, Dr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas, yesterday warned parties in the various conflicts in the region to sheathe their swords, saying armed conflicts will never lead to the development of the region.
The ECOWAS boss, who identified poor resource management and exclusion from development as major causes of conflicts in the region, said hostility is antithetical to conflict resolution.
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Daily Independent 18 October 2008
Elder statesman and former Vice President, Dr. Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme turns 76 on Tuesday.
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The Director General of the London based Alex Ekwueme Foundation, Dr Duke Igwilo would be visiting Nigeria from 12 September 2008 through 19th September 2008.
This visit is to enable the Director General acquaint himself with the progress made towards the acquisition of land for the building of the Alex Ekwueme Institute for Peace in Abuja.
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Ekwueme Seeks Devt of N’Delta
Thisday Newspaper
08.12.2008
Former Vice-President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr Alex Ekwueme, has said decades of deprivation in the Niger Delta is responsible for current crises in the region.
Ekwueme told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Asaba, that it was obvious that failure to give to the Niger Delta people what was rightly due to them, resulted in their current struggle Read More »
Why I Didn’t Abandon PDP- Ekwueme
By Emma Chukwuanukwu, Assistant News Editor
Nigeria’s former Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme has finally opened up on why he remained committed to the ideals of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)despite all the humiliation he has suffered as founder and leader of the party.
He has also thrown more light on why his presidential ambition in 1999 and 2003 was scuttled, saying that a cabal in the military worked against him.
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Written by Anayo Okoli
Umuahia—Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, has immortalized some eminent Nigerians by naming some buildings and roads on the campus after them.
The university said the gesture was in recognition of their contribution to the development of education in Nigeria. Read More »
By Obi Adimora
This was the tribute my late father, Justice Okechukwu Adimora, paid to Dr. Alex Ekwueme to mark his 60th birthday at his Oko country home.
Hyperbole comes easily at such moments, but the judgement would be endorsed by many who have worked with Dr. Ekwueme in the course of the different facets of his career.
Dr. Ekwueme will be 70 tomorrow. I could not have asked for a finer friend than him. I love him not only for the extreme richness of his intellectual itinerary, but above all for his courage and the constancy in his conviction and political choices, which have remained unchanged even when they were in contradiction with the main stream of opinion and fashion. Read More »
Chuks Okocha in Abuja, 04.03.2008
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Former Vice President and Chieftain of the PeoplesDemocratic Party (PDP), Dr. Alex Ekwueme has called onthe federal government not to name institutions and monuments in Nigeria after individuals that are beyond 70 years of age.
Speaking in Abuja yesterday when the Board of Trusteesof the Alex Ekwueme foundation was inaugurated, the former Vice President said when such institutions are named after individuals and later changed by new administrations, it becomes a source of embarrassments to the individuals concerned. Read More »
