 DAR ES SALAM, 24 Aug 2005 (IRIN) - Peace talks between the Sudanese government and the two main rebel groups in the western Sudanese region of Darfur are to resume on 15 September, the African Union (AU) special envoy for the region, Salim Ahmed Salim, said on Wednesday. "The decision to resume the talks in [the Nigerian capital] Abuja was taken after three days of consultations between the parties," Salim told reporters in Tanzania's commercial capital, Dar es Salaam. "The consultations went on very well and the parties declared their determination to achieve a conclusive agreement by the end of the year," Salim added. He was flanked by delegates from the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the Sudanese Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A). |
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 BISSAU, 23 Aug 2005 (IRIN) - Guinea-Bissau's Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior has said he doesn't recognise newly-elected president, Joao Bernardo Vieira, but will remain in the government nonetheless, prompting many observers to wonder how the political cohabitation will work.
Former military ruler Vieira was declared the new head of state in this small West African country after winning a mid-July ballot, fending off a strong challenge from Malam Bacai Sanha, the candidate of the ruling PAIGC party to which Gomes Junior belongs.
Claiming electoral fraud, the PAIGC lodged an appeal with Guinea-Bissau's Supreme Court but that was dismissed over the weekend.
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 JOHANNESBURG, 23 Aug 2005 (IRIN) - After almost a month of delays in getting relief food to Zimbabwe, the South African Council of Churches (SACC) has asked the South African government to intervene.
"The SACC has requested Rev Frank Chikane, director-general of the presidency, for help, and he assured us last night that the necessary documents will be processed soon," said Rev Ron Steele on behalf of the SACC on Tuesday.
Relief aid for Zimbabweans affected by the government's controversial crackdown on illegal settlements and the informal economy was expected to leave South Africa two weeks ago.
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 ABUJA, 22 Aug 2005 (IRIN) - Africa needs to crank up its fish output by 20 percent over the next decade just to keep up with current consumption levels and ensure that the inexpensive source of protein remains available for the hundreds of millions of Africans that rely on it as a main part of their diet.
That was the alarm sounded by experts ahead of a four-day "Fish For All" summit that kicked off in the Nigerian capital, Abuja on Monday.
A study undertaken by the WorldFish Center showed that Africa, a continent where a third of the population is undernourished, was the only region in the world where fish supplies per capita are actually dropping.
The Malaysian-based international research organisation said that whereas there were 9kg of fish for each African every year in the 1970s, that had fallen to 6.6 kg by the end of the 1990s.
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 JOHANNESBURG, 22 Aug 2005 (IRIN) - A coalition of South African pressure groups on Monday launched a campaign against the loss of jobs and growing poverty in what is being perceived as a challenge to the government's development policies.
According to a senior Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) official, the initiative includes the South African Council of Churches and the AIDS lobby group, Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) among other prominent activist groups.
"The campaign will, at the moment, remain focused in [the province of] Western Cape, which has experienced a drastic loss of jobs, particularly in the clothing and textile industry. We have been working with many of the NGOs around the issue of jobs losses for a long time, particularly in this province; we are merely formalising the existing arrangement," COSATU president Willie Madisha told IRIN.
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 NDJAMENA, 22 Aug 2005 (IRIN) - Chadian journalists began a one-week news blackout on Monday, to protest the imprisonment of four colleagues and to draw international attention to what one striking reporter called the ”creeping dictatorship” of President Idriss Deby.
All but one of Chad’s private newspapers have stopped work and some private radio stations have cut news transmissions after four journalists were thrown in prison since late June, accused of various offences including defaming Deby and inciting hatred.
The arrested journalists face sentences of between three months and three years in prison.
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