Reports

By Evelyn Leopold UNITED NATIONS, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council intends on Thursday to extend peacekeeping operations in Angola for another three months in an effort to prevent a return to war in the southwest African nation. The…

JOHANNESBURG, 3 Dec (IRIN) - The UN Security Council was told on Thursday that it would be advisable to renew the mandate of the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola (MONUA) because of the "significant" increase in tension, the…

General Political Situation A number of contacts between the SRSG, the Troika, the Government and the Provisional Political Committee of UNITA (UNITA Renovada) have continued to take place. On 27 November, UNITA Renovada expounded their thesis on the steps to…

The information contained in this report was provided by the United Nations Humanitarian Assistance Coordination Unit in Luanda (UCAH) GENERAL POLITICAL SITUATION A number of contacts between the SRSG, the Troika, the Government and the Provisional Political Committee of UNITA (UNITA Renovada)…

JOHANNESBURG, 7 December (IRIN) A group of 13 soldiers of the UN Observer Mission in Angola (MONUA) held for the past month in UNITA territory have been released and will be flown to the capital Luanda later on Monday. A…

JOHANNESBURG, 2 December (IRIN) - An Angolan government soldier killed himself and nine other people when he detonated a hand grenade in a crowded market stall on Tuesday in the Angolan town of Caala, some 50 km west of…

UNITED NATIONS Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for Central and Eastern Africa Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org In sub-Saharan Africa, the prevalence of AIDS is greater than anywhere else in the world. According to…

JOHANNESBURG, 1 December (IRIN) Despite political and economic obstacles, South Africa's Trade Minister Alec Erwin said on Tuesday he was confident the 14-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) would be able to establish the framework for a free trade zone…

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 ANGOLA: UN Secretary-General reports to the Security Council UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan this week told the UN Security Council he…

Press Release SG/SM/6807 AFR/116 Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's address to the Africa-France Summit in Paris on 27 November: C'est pour moi un plaisir et un honneur de m'adresser à cette assemblée des dirigeants des pays d'Afrique. Permettez-moi tout…