Reports

NATIONS UNIES Bureau pour la Coordination des Affaires Humanitaires / IRIN pour l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est Tel: +254 2 622 147 Fax: +254 2 622 129 e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org REPUBLIQUE DEMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO (RDC) Les pourparlers pourraient se dérouler à Nairobi Le Ministre kenyan des…

General Situation During the reporting period, road attacks continued to raise the number of civilian casualties. Monday, 19 April, another two vehicles travelling from Malange to Luanda, on the Lucala-Ndalatando (Kuanza Norte province) road, were ambushed and most of the…

JOHANNESBURG, 22 April (IRIN) - An IRIN report on the food security situation in Southern Africa on Wednesday attributed the latest situation to information provided by USAID's Famine Early Warning System (FEWS). The information was in fact provided by…

By Lara Pawson MALANJE, Angola, April 21 (Reuters) - Thousands of displaced people sheltering in the rebel-besieged Angolan city of Malanje are sliding towards starvation because of growing problems with food aid distribution, observers said on Wednesday. Despite regular food deliveries…

Press Release 99/23 Johannesburg, 21 April -- Though much of sub-Saharan Africa continues to see improved food and crop prospects, a Special UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Report released today, warns that war and civil strife remain a threat…

JOHANNESBURG, 21 April (IRIN) - The 1998/1999 maize forecast for Southern Africa is expected to decline by 13 percent to 14.75 million mt compared to last year's maize output of 17.05 million mt while the region is projected to…

ANGOLA: Zimbabwe, Namibia to join anti-UNITA drive Troops from Namibia, Zimbabwe, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were planning to help the Angolan army in a joint offensive against UNITA rebels in northern Angola, according to official media reports in…

Following is a statement by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson which she delivered on Thursday, 15 April 1999, to the African Ministerial Conference on Human Rights which was held in Mauritius: 'I have come here directly…

(New York, April 19, 1999) A new report on child soldiers in Africa has found that more than 120,000 children under 18 years of age are being used as soldiers across the continent. Some of these children are no…

A country analysis of child recruitment and participation in armed conflict Preface The purpose of this report is to document and assess the extent of the military recruitment of African children and their use as soldiers in armed conflict. In particular,…