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ANGOLA: UNITA shells Huambo UNITA rebels have been shelling the central highland city of Huambo since Saturday, diplomatic sources told IRIN on Tuesday. "UNITA forces have been targetting the airfield at Huambo as well as the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA)…

By Luke Baker JOHANNESBURG, June 22 (Reuters) - A million Angolans face starvation as food supplies dwindle in the midst of a seemingly endless civil war, the World Food Programme said on Tuesday. Emergency food stocks have dropped to just eight…

Security Council members on Tuesday underlined the importance of continuing talks between the United Nations and the Government of Angola on the future UN presence in the country. In a press statement, Council President Ambassador Baboucarr-Blaise I. Jagne of Gambia…

LUANDA (June 22) XINHUA - The U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) has urged the Angolan government to allocate more funds for children whether the country is in war or peace. "Children deserve to enjoy more funds in their country," Deputy Executive…

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 DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Ilunga leads rebels in Lusaka A delegation of the rebel Rassemblement congolais pour…

At a glance food shortages - malnutrition among children is widespread displacement - the war has separated many children from their families polio - a polio outbreak is threatening children disease - illness and death among young children is expected to increase registration…

LUSAKA (June 21) XINHUA - Zambia has hosted about 200,000 refugees from various war-ravaged African countries, Zambian Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Edwin Hatembo said. Times of Zambia newspaper Monday quoted Hatembo as saying that Zambia, being a signatory to…

by Stephen Mbogo in Nairobi JOHANNESBURG - Child malnutrition in Angola is now believed to have reached levels worse than at any previous time in over 20 years of civil war, according to a new report published last week. The…

Senior officials in Angola have agreed in principle to a small United Nations mission for the country, a UN spokesman said on Monday. Following talks with the UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping, Bernard Miyet, on Friday, the Angolan Minister for External Relations…

Unnoticed by world media, a million people have been displaced by Angola's unwinnable civil war. Mercedes Sayagues reports Johannesburg, South Africa. June 21, 1999 - While the world's attention is focused on the refugees from Kosovo, another war-induced tragedy is unfolding…