Afghanistan
This report includes: A) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania B) Liberia and Sierra Leone C) Iraq D) Afghanistan From P. Ares, Chief, Programming Service. For information regarding resources, donors are requested to contact Mr. F. Strippoli or Mr. M. Crosthwaite, WFP…
Viet Nam
Ref: DHAGVA - 96/0437 1. CENTRAL COMMITTEE FOR FLOOD AND STORM CONTROL (CCFSC) OF THE VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT REPORTED THAT THE FLOOD WATER LEVELS DOWNSTREAM OF THE MEKONG RIVER HAVE BEEN RECEDING GRADUALLY, BUT THAT FROM 24 TO 30 OCTOBER, DUE…
Afghanistan
(Urges process of negotiation and reconciliation) (800) By David Pitts USIA Staff Writer Washington -- The United States supports "a process of negotiation," among the warring parties in Afghanistan, Lee Coldren, the State Department's director of the office on Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh,…
Afghanistan
KALAKAN, Afghanistan, Oct 24 (Reuter) Commanders with ousted Afghan government forces said on Thursday that a large offensive the previous day had so far failed to budge Taleban militia from the strategic De Sabz pass north of Kabul. ''We are…
Cambodia
Appeal Target : US$ 100,000 Dear Friends, Cambodia experiences worst flooding since 1978. 1.3 million people affected; crops, dykes, dams and roads destroyed. The Ecumenical Working Group, of which both Lutheran World Federation and Church World Service are members, is requesting…
Afghanistan
Mazar-i-Sharif, 23 October 1996 (RFE/RL) -- In Afghanistan, northern warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum held talks today with United Nations and Pakistani mediators seeking to prevent a bloody battle for Kabul. UN special envoy Norbert Holl, speaking after three hours of…
Afghanistan
UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali announced on 18 October, in a press conference in Hamburg, that he was opposed to sending peace-keeping troops to war-torn Afghanistan. The Secretary-General said that the UN must confine itself to diplomatic means and…
Afghanistan
KABUL (Reuter) - Kabul's Islamic Taleban rulers and ousted government forces fought on Wednesday for strategic heights overlooking a road leading into the Afghan capital while international negotiators struggled to secure a ceasefire deal. Rival Afghan militia pounded each other with…
Afghanistan
(Resolution denounced discrimination against females) (1330) United Nations -- The Security Council October 22 unanimously called on the Afghan parties to immediately stop fighting, put aside their differences and begin national reconciliation talks. Unanimously adopting a resolution sponsored by Russia, the United States,…
Afghanistan
UNHCR monitors on the Afghanistan=ADPakistan border are reporting a steady increase in the number of Afghan refugees crossing into Pakistan. Whereas from 1=AD14 October an average of around 125 new arrivals were counted entering Pakistan each day, the number…
