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Africa


AFR/718-POP/874
03/10/2003
Press Release
AFR/718
POP/874


UNFPA REPLENISHES LOOTED HOSPITALS IN LIBERIA; WARNS OF CONTINUING HEALTH


EMERGENCY AS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS REMAIN DISPLACED


New York, 3 October (UNFPA) -- Continuing fighting in Liberia is worsening an already severe humanitarian crisis that has pushed maternal and infant mortality to levels not seen for decades, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), warned today.

SC/7886-AFR/719
03/10/2003
Press Release
SC/7886
AFR/719


PRESS STATEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT ON COTE D’IVOIRE


Following is the press statement on Côte d’Ivoire delivered by the President of the Security Council, John Negroponte (United States):

SG/SM/8908-AFR/712
29/09/2003
Press Release
SG/SM/8908
AFR/712


MUCH GREATER EFFORTS NEEDED, OR ‘FEW AFRICAN COUNTRIES WILL MEET EVEN SOME’


MILLENNIUM GOALS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS TOKYO CONFERENCE ON AFRICA


Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the third Tokyo International Conference on African Development, delivered today by Ibrahim Gambari, Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Africa: