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...DETENTION EXTENDED. For Aung San Suu Kyi, 60, Burmese opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who has spent 10 of the last 17 years under incarceration; in Rangoon. Despite calls from U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan for Burma's military leaders "to do the right thing," the junta declined to release Suu Kyi on May 27, when her term of house arrest was set to expire...
...he’ll have some interesting insights to share from his front-row seat on the stage of presidential election history,” he said. John Lithgow ’67 gave last year’s Commencement address. He was preceded by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan in 2004 and Ernesto Zedillo, former president of Mexico, in 2003. —Staff writer Alexandra C. Bell can be reached at acbell@fas.harvard.edu...
...office in January that prosecuting Taylor was less a concern than reconstruction. But international donors, including the U.S. and the European Union, demanded as a condition of aid that Johnson-Sirleaf ask Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo to turn over Taylor. "The pressure was more than just political pressure," Samuel Kofi Woods, Liberia's Labor Minister, told TIME. "It also had to do with the development of Liberia...
...TIME: Secretary-General Kofi Annan is leaving at the end of the year. Should his replacement be a woman...
...presentations by filmmakers, conservationists and environmentalists. Founded last year, it's Africa's first such event, and it's sponsored and supported by the Dutch, French and U.S. embassies, global corporations like Nestl? and environmental groups like the Ghana Wildlife Society. Last year around 1,000 attended, including Kofi Agbogah, a scientist from Ghana's Water Research Institute: "The great thing about the festival was that people saw [the movies] on the screen and immediately understood the politics and complexity of the issues. It was really worthwhile?a lot of people said so?even people who are not environmentalists." That...