Afghanistan
SG/A/644 The Secretary-General has decided to appoint Lakhdar Brahimi as his Special Envoy to undertake a short-term mission in order to assess the United Nations peacemaking activities in Afghanistan and to consult interested and relevant countries and parties and the Organization of…
Afghanistan
Mazar-i-Sharif; 29 July 1997 (RFE/RL) Opposition and Taliban forces are making counterclaims today as they continue a face-off north of Kabul. The Taliban claimed today to have stopped the opposition advance led by former government defense minister Ahmad Shah Masood. Taliban…
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Korean Americans are Leading the NGO Efforts to Help Feed Starving North Koreans 50,000 Korean Americans Raised $ 1 million to Send the Humanitarian Food Aid Washington, D.C. (KASM) - The Korean American Sharing Movement (KASM), a grassroots organization established for the…
Afghanistan
Kabul, 28 July 1997 (RFE/RL) - Correspondents in Kabul say the Taliban militia and opposition forces exchanged rocket and artillery fire today from positions about 20 kilometers north of the Afghan capital. There were no reports of any change…
Afghanistan
DATE=7/28/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-217742 TITLE=AFGHAN FIGHTING (L) BYLINE=MERIDITH BUEL DATELINE=KABUL CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: IN AFGHANISTAN, FIGHTING IS REPORTED BETWEEN THE TALEBAN AND OPPOSITION FORCES, ABOUT 15 KILOMETERS NORTH OF KABUL. AS V-O-A CORRESPONDENT MEREDITH BUEL REPORTS FROM THE AFGHAN CAPITAL, CIVILIANS CONTINUE TO FLEE…
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Media Contact: Cathy_MacCaul@wvccg.wvus.org LOS ANGELES - Eighty-five percent of the children surveyed during a recent trip to North Korea are suffering from malnutrition, according to Dr. Milton Amayun, World Vision's director of international health. His was the first comprehensive health assessment…
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
BY RUSSELL SKELTON, Herald Correspondent in Tokyo Hwang Yun Young stands in the half light of a fading summer sun, her delicate frame revealing the ravages of North Korea's "silent" famine and the lingering international disbelief about…
Afghanistan
AI INDEX: ASA 11/07/97 Amnesty International has just received information that the Taleban has rounded-up as many as 2,000 men from the Tajik and Hazara minorities from their homes in Kabul over the past few days. These men were arrested mostly…
Afghanistan
Kabul, 25 July 1997 (RFE/RL) - Some 50 foreign aid workers left Kabul today as the frontline between Taliban and opposition forces was holding stabile some 20 kilometers from the Afghan capital. A convoy carrying staff from a variety of smaller…
Afghanistan
DATE=7/24/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-217603 TITLE=UN / AFGHANISTAN (L-ONLY) BYLINE=LISA SCHLEIN DATELINE=GENEVA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE UNITED NATIONS SAYS FIGHTING IN AFGHANISTAN BETWEEN FUNDAMENTALIST TALEBAN SOLDIERS AND A NORTHERN-BASED ALLIANCE IS CREATING HUGE PROBLEMS FOR HUMANITARIAN AGENCIES OPERATING IN THE CAPITAL, KABUL. FROM GENEVA, LISA SCHLEIN…
