Reports

GULBAHAR, Afghanistan, Jan 26 (Reuter) Afghanistan's Taleban Islamic militia said it had pushed towards the key opposition-held Panjsher valley on Sunday from the strategic Gulbahar district, and asked civilians to leave Gulbahar. The militia captured three villages and large quantities of…

Ref: DHAGVA - 97/0046 1. The National Coordinating Board for Disaster Management (BAKORNAS PB) of the Government reported that, as of 21 January 1997, the areas within 6 km distance form the volcano were still under "Most Alert" status, whereas…

SALANG PASS, Afghanistan (Reuter) - Afghanistan's Islamic Taleban militia burst through opposition defences to capture three key towns and part of the Salang Pass north of Kabul in a dawn assault Thursday, witnesses said. The Taleban warriors, who seized the Soviet-built…

An InterAction Press Statement North Korea's 23 million people are in the throes of a life-threatening food shortage that could take on famine proportions in the months to come. The UN World Food Programme estimates the food shortfall to be…

The population of Kabul is growing poorer with every passing day. A further 20,000 people displaced by the recent fighting have added their numbers in the past week to the thousands of destitute people already living in the Afghan…

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 22 (Reuter) - Afghanistan has accused the Islamic Taleban movement of deporting more than 60,000 people to Kabul from a recently-captured region north of the capital and called on the United Nations to enable them to…

[This is a summary of current media reports. Their accuracy is solely the responsibility of the news sources cited. This is provided only as a service to the UN Secretariat and UN Agencies.] 1. INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON ASSISTANCE TO AFGHANISTAN…

TOKYO (Reuter) - The United States, Japan and South Korea have been discussing contingency plans in the event of a ''crisis'' in famine-stricken communist North Korea, a senior Japanese government official said Tuesday. The official said reclusive North Korea, gripped by…

The World Food Programme announced Tuesday that in 1996, it delivered 120,000 metric tons of food aid and provided related cash contributions to Afghanistan for a total value of almost 50 million dollars. WFP, the United Nation's food aid agency, helped…

SEOUL (Reuter) - The South Korean Red Cross Monday said it would resume food shipments to North Korea this month for the first time since an incursion by a Northern submarine froze desperately-needed aid to the communist nation. "We are…