Namibia's president, Sam Nujoma, has given his backing to a proposal by a prominent African Church leader that African countries should set up an economic union to promote growth and development.
09 June 1998
To the people of Sri Lanka, who recently experienced their 50th anniversary of independence amidst tight security, the 15 year old internal war has been a continuing tragedy. This is a war that has claimed over 50,000 lives and led to over a million refugees and internally displaced persons.
22 May 1998
The Rt Revd Thomas Kogo, the former Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Eldoret, has been consecrated Bishop of Eldoret
11 May 1998
Hope for the famine-hit regions of Southern Sudan is growing, after the resumption of peace talks last week.
11 May 1998
(ENI) The heads of more than 330 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox churches which are members of the World Council of Churches are to be invited to the Zimbabwean capital of Harare in December for a service of recommitment to mark the 50th anniversary of the foundation in 1948 of the WCC.
11 May 1998
With some four and a half thousand asylum cases pending at the Department of Justice the issue of refugees and their shelter in Ireland is starting to loom large with the populace.
11 May 1998
(CPSA) Consideration must be given to the creation of an Economic Union of African States to ensure growth and development for the greatest number of people on the continent.
17 April 1998
(ENI) Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has agreed to talk "peace and war" with the rebels in the north of the country who are trying to overthrow his government.
09 April 1998
(CPSA) The announcement by President Bill Clinton that he would raise the issue of the international debt of African countries at the meeting of the G7 group of countries to be held in England in May was welcome, according to the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane.
08 April 1998
(CPSA) A delegation from the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (Anglican), has met the Minister of Education, Professor Sibusiso Bengu, to make representations regarding several issues relating to education.
08 April 1998