AFRICA CANNOT DEVELOP UNLESS WOMEN EXERCISE REAL POWER, SAYS

SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO ADDIS ABABA SESSION

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the African Union session on gender in Addis Ababa, 6 July:

SECRETARY-GENERAL COMMENDS LEADERS OF GABON, EQUATORIAL GUINEA

FOR AGREEMENT TO PEACEFULLY RESOLVE BORDER DISPUTE

Following is the text of comments by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the signing ceremony between Gabon and Equatorial Guinea of an agreement to peacefully resolve their border dispute, in Addis Ababa, today:

africa’s ‘new democratic spirit’ must spread, strengtHen, says Secretary-General

to african union, while warning of threat posed by darfur crisis

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address to the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, 6 July:

ERRATIC RAINS, CIVIL STRIFE, DESERT LOCUSTS SERIOUSLY

THREATEN FOOD SECURITY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Crisis in Sudan Pushes Millions off Land;

Elsewhere Drought, AIDS Undercut Agricultural Production

(Reissued as received.)

UN REPORTS SLOW PROGRESS IN LIBERIA RECONSTRUCTION

NEW YORK, 2 July (OCHA) -- Slow progress in Liberia’s reconstruction is due to the failure of donors to contribute the $540 million they pledged at a donors’ conference in New York in February 2004, according to the United Nations.

SECRETARY-GENERAL OFFERS DEEP CONDOLENCES TO FAMILIES, GOVERNMENTS

FOLLOWING CRASH OF UN MISSION HELICOPTER IN SIERRA LEONE

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

Secretary-General promises continued un support for central africa peace,

development efforts in message to security meeting in malabo

(Delayed for translation of text, originally delivered in French.)

un office reports disruption of humanitarian aid in democratic republic of congo

CAPACITY-BUILDING WORKSHOP ON UN PROGRAMME OF ACTION

ON ILLICIT TRADE IN SMALL ARMS HELD IN TUNIS

REPORT ON STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE AFRICA’S AGRICULTURE,

FOOD SECURITY PRESENTED AT UN HEADQUARTERS