The Shebeen (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
UNITED STATES Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has softened her rhetoric on Zimbabwe and called on African leaders and former UN chief Kofi Annan to help find a solution to resolve the crisis in the country. Full article ... (http://allafrica.com/stories/200805100003.html)
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
UNITED STATES Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has softened her rhetoric on Zimbabwe and called on African leaders and former UN chief Kofi Annan to help find a solution to resolve the crisis in the country.
Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke on Friday with African leaders and former United Nations chief Kofi Annan for their insight into how to end Zimbabwe's election crisis, her spokesperson said. Rice spoke to Botswana President Ian Khama, Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa and Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
As former UN chief Kofi Annan calls for a "green revolution" in Africa, the BBC's Madeleine Morris reports on one project to help Tanzanian farmers.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
THE HEAD of Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution Department (CPMRD) at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Dr. Kwesi Aning, says Ghana is sitting on a time bomb. He said this in regard to the increasing spate of drug menace in the country.
Technology Blog (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
There’s been a rash of defections at OLPC lately, with NickNeg himself looking to leave soon , so it's nice to hear that the charitable endeavor is filling in the vacancies. Although Negroponte has said that's he looking for someone “similar to Kofi Annan” to lead the project, it looks like he’s just shuffling people [...]
An Inconvenient Blog (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Former UN head Kofi Annan has called for a “green revolution” to solve the food crisis threatening Africa. Most of Africa has communal land tenure, not a market in land “A genuinely African green revolution could lead to a doubling or tripling of food production,” he told the BBC. Africa needs direct, immediate help for farmers to stop [...]
Hip Hop Caucus Blog (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Farmers in Africa could double food output in five to 10 years if rich countries partner them in a "Green Revolution" for a long-term solution to the continent's food crisis, former U.N. chief Kofi Annan said on Friday. Speaking in a telephone conference call from Austria, the former U.N. secretary-general urged developed nations to give generously to first stave off the risk of hunger...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
You rarely see him in public and very little is known about him by Kenyans.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Former UN head Kofi Annan calls for a "green revolution" to solve the food crisis threatening Africa.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Former UN head Kofi Annan calls for a "green revolution" to solve the food crisis threatening Africa.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Global food prices have doubled in the last three years, and the cereal bill for low-income food-deficit countries in Africa is projected to increase another 74 percent this year. Across sub-Saharan Africa, 33 million young children are malnourished, even as food riots have broken out in more than half a dozen African countries. With Africa's own food production tragically low, the continent remains...
Slaw (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
Louise Arbour, former Supreme Court Justice and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, will join the Board of the International Crisis Group. New fellow board members include Kofi Annan, (Lord) Paddy Ashdown, HRH Prince Turki al-Faisal and the former President of Poland, Alexander Kwaśniewsk. There are 54 members on the board all told. The International Crisis [...]
Red State (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
The not-so-rave reviews for the U.N.'s new Human Rights Council just keep rolling in : TWO years ago, the 60-year-old UN Commission on Human Rights was dumped. Kofi Annan, who was then the UN's secretary-general, gave the reason: the world's worst abusers had used the agency "to protect themselves against criticism or to criticise others". When its successor, the Human Rights Council,...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
If Belarus won the Eurovision Song Contest every year, there would be an outcry. If Kofi Annan was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for a decade on the trot, there'd be an inquiry. If Peter Carey took the Man Booker five times running, there would be blood in the streets. So when Ferran Adria took to the stage at Restaurant magazine's World's 50 Best restaurants 2008 ceremony on Monday...
