Reports

UNITED NATIONS Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for Southern Africa Tel: +2711 880 4633 Fax: +2711 880 1421 e-mail: irin-sa@irin.org.za (24-31 Dec 1998) ANGOLA: Situation deteriorates following UN plane crash in central highlands A Hercules C-130 transport aircraft carrying 10…

JOHANNESBURG, 31 December (IRIN) Angola's second-largest city Huambo was subjected to intense shelling by UNITA forces on Wednesday in which at least five people died. According to a report by the Humanitarian Assistance Coordination Unit (UCAH) in Luanda received by…

Press Release SC/6619 19981231 Resolution 1219 (1998), Unanimously Adopted, Condemns Absence Of Actions to Determine Fate of Crew and Passengers aboard 26 December Crash Expressing concern in the strongest terms at the crash of United Nations flight 806 and at the disappearance…

Press Release SG/SM/6857 AFR/125 The following statement was issued on Thursday, 31 December, by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: As part of his urgent efforts to assure the swiftest possible implementation of a search-and-rescue mission to the crash site of…

JOHANNESBURG, 30 December (IRIN) - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Wednesday appealed to Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and the opposition UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi for help in reaching a UN-chartered aircraft which crash landed near the central highlands…

By Paul Richardson JOHANNESBURG, Dec 30 (Reuters) - A senior Angolan government official called on the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday to help disarm the rebel UNITA movement to bring an end to renewed civil war in the country. Speaking…

ROME - An escalation in the causes of food crises in 1998 has sounded the alarm for global food security in the coming year, the head of the United Nations World Food Programme said today. Catherine Bertini, Executive Director of WFP,…

The information contained in this report was provided by the United Nations Humanitarian Assistance Coordination Unit in Luanda (UCAH) GENERAL SITUATION Huambo City was shelled at 13:15 on 30 December The ongoing warfare is provoking general instability and growing tension throughout Angola. This…

By Lara Pawson LUANDA, Dec 29 (Reuters) - A senior United Nations official said on Tuesday the wreckage of a plane which crashed in Angola's central highlands on Saturday had been found and there were indications of survivors. ''Some images…

JOHANNESBURG (Dec. 29) XINHUA - The wreck of a United Nations chartered aircraft that crashed in eastern Angola Saturday had been seen and appeared to be reasonably intact, the South African embassy in Luanda said Tuesday. U.N. officials flew over…