Reports

SEOUL, South Korea (Reuter) - Top U.S. defense officials on Friday cautioned against rushing to help North Korea, saying the nation was on a war footing despite its appeals for food to avert famine and may not be ready…

A country on the move: hundreds of thousands of displaced Renewed fighting in Afghanistan has caused thousands of civilians to flee their homes. Taking with them only what they can carry on their backs or transport by donkey or cart, families…

(6:49pm AEST) The United States has indicated it is unlikely to supply large-scale food aid to North Korea until it begins dismantling its military machine threatening the South. In a blunt warning to Pyongyang, Defence Secretary William Cohen said any aggression…

(extract) Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme This report includes: A) Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan B) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania C) Uganda D) Sudan. From P. Ares, Chief, Programming Service. Available on the Internet at WFP Home Page http://www.wfp.org/ or by…

EMERGENCY ACCOUNT #7633U, originally issued Dec. 23, 1996 SITUATION: The urgency of North Korea's famine was underscored this week when its government told international aid agencies that 134 children had died of malnutrition -- the first official figure on the deaths. An…

(0:43am AEST) The United Nations says Afghanistan's warring factions have broken a commitment to observe a ceasefire to allow a mass polio immunisation drive to go ahead. In a joint statement, the U-N Children's Fund and the World Health Organisation said…

Co-ordinating Office Action by Churches Together(ACT) is a worldwide network of Churches and their related agencies meeting human need through co-ordinated emergency response and common identity. The ACT network is organizationally based in the Lutheran World Federation(LWF) and the World…

DATE=4/10/97 TYPE=BACKGROUND REPORT NUMBER=5-36149 TITLE=COHEN / KOREAN CRISIS BYLINEÚVID GOLLUST DATELINE=SEOUL CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: U-S DEFENSE SECRETARY WILLIAM COHEN -- WHO HAS JUST COMPLETED A ROUND OF TOP-LEVEL CONSULTATIONS IN SOUTH KOREA -- SAYS THE FOOD CRISIS IN THE NORTH IS A SIGN THE COMMUNIST…

ICRC News 97/13 In Afghanistan the price of flour went up by 50% at the beginning of this month, creating further hardship for the country's war-weary population. The authorities in Pakistan, where flour is in short supply, have stopped…

An American food conglomerate, Cargill, has reached agreement with North Koream to ship an undisclosed amount of American wheat to the famine-stricken country. The company says the agreement follows three months of negotiations, but declined to give details except to…