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Ref: DHAGVA - 96/0432 1. ACCORDING TO THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE FOR FLOOD AND STORM CONTROL (CCFSC) OF THE VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT, ON 17 OCTOBER 1996, THE WATER LEVEL WAS RECEDING SLOWLY. 2. DUE TO THE FLOODING AND TYPHOON OF 9 OCTOBER 1996,…

Press Release SC/6282 SECURITY COUNCIL DENOUNCES VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN LAW IN AFGHANISTAN, CALLS ON PARTIES TO CEASE HOSTILITIES Resolution 1076 (1996), Adopted Unanimously, Calls on States Not to Interfere in Afghanistan's Internal Affairs The Security Council this morning denounced the…

Ref: DHAGVA - 96/0430 1. THE SECRETARIAT OF THE NATIONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE (SNDMC) ISSUED SITUATION REPORT NO. 1 WITH AN UPDATE ON THE FLOOD EMERGENCY COVERING THE PERIOD 4 TO 17 OCTOBER 1996. THE MAIN POINTS ARE SUMMARIZED IN…

The Security Council, Having considered the situation in Afghanistan, Recalling the previous statements of the President of the Security Council on the situation in Afghanistan, including the statements of 15 February 1996 (S/PRST/1996/6) and of 28 September 1996 (S/PRST/1996/40), and the…

KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuter) - Afghanistan's purist Islamic Taleban movement and their opponents said on Monday they were ready to accept a Pakistani-brokered ceasefire, but both sides set conditions to any agreement and were still locked in battle. On the ground,…

KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuter) - Taleban forces have blunted an advance toward Kabul by troops loyal to ousted Afghan military chief Ahmad Shah Masood. Masood's forces, which on Sunday heralded their final assault on the Taleban-held capital with a volley of…

JABAL OS-SIRAJ, Afghanistan (Reuter) Afghanistan's radical Islamic Taleban and their opponents said Monday they were ready to accept a Pakistani-brokered cease-fire but the two sides set contrasting conditions. The Taleban, who control Kabul, and forces loyal to ousted government military chief…

This report includes: A) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania B) Somalia C) Angola D) Afghanistan E) Commonwealth of Independent States: Chechnya, Tajikistan F) Former Yugoslavia PART I - HIGHLIGHTS (Details below in Part II) D. AFGHANISTAN - information as of 17 October…

FROM CHRISTOPHER THOMAS IN KABUL TANKS and anti-aircraft guns flying the flag of the northern fiefdom ruled by General Abdul Rashid Dostum, the Uzbek warlord, rumbled into positions 40 miles north of Kabul yesterday =AD a two-hour dash down the…

By Paul Goble Washington, 17 October 1996 (RFE/RL) -- The constantly shifting fortunes of the Taliban militia and its opponents in the Afghan civil war highlight the diversity of divisions within Afghanistan as a whole and the equal diversity within…