Papua New Guinea
PNG Drought Update The Australian Government is continuing its air relief effort in drought-affected Papua New Guinea following a PNG Government appeal for international assistance. Yesterday the PNG Minister for Provincial and Local Government Affairs, Mr Simon Kaumi, called upon the…
Afghanistan
DATE=10/23/97 TYPE=BACKGROUND REPORT NUMBER=5-37863 TITLE=AFGHAN REFUGEES BYLINE=MEREDITH BUEL DATELINE=ISLAMABAD CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE UNITED NATIONS PLANS TO START REPATRIATING THOUSANDS OF TAJIK REFUGEES CAUGHT IN THE CROSS FIRE OF THE CIVIL WAR IN AFGHANISTAN. AT LEAST ONE REFUGEE WAS KILLED AND UP TO 40…
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) The nature and scale of the crisis in North Korea (the DPRK) is still unclear. What is clear is that there is a food security crisis, but statements about famine are extrapolated from the few…
Papua New Guinea
(4:32pm AEST) R-double-A-F aircraft in Papua New guinea are continuing to deliver food to villages hardest hit by the country's worst drought on record. Mark Bowling reports the Australian aid effort might need to be stepped up as experts predict an…
Indonesia
Indonesia The recent fires across much of Indonesia and the resulting smoke smog have aroused much public attention. The extent of the fires may to some degree be attributed to El Niño, but the commercial and other interests, as well…
Afghanistan
Afghanistan Recent fighting in northern Afghanistan affected two of Oxfam's ongoing programme areas, Mazar-i-Sharif and Pul-i-Kumri. Work had to stop in both areas, although is now probably able to start again. In Kabul, Oxfam's major programme is concerned with large-scale rehabilitation…
Afghanistan
(RAND's Khalilzad, Unocal's Miller, Nebraska's Gouttiere) (940) By Rick Marshall USIA Staff Writer Washington -- Two political analysts and the vice president of an American energy company, speaking at a Senate Foreign Relations Near East and South Asia subcommittee session October 22, described…
Papua New Guinea
Ref: DHAGVA - 97/0537 DISASTER SITUATION 1. As a result of the El Nino effect, the drought situation in Papua New Guinea has worsened to the point where, according to a report prepared by a joint Government/AusAid assessment team, more…
Afghanistan
DAILY HIGHLIGHTS The United Nations refugee agency plans to start repatriating Tajik refugees from the war-affected Sakhi Camp in northern Afghanistan on Friday. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR) announced on Wednesday that the repatriation, which may take up to five weeks,…
Afghanistan
(US neutrality; military stalemate; human rights; narcotics) (2250) Washington -- Karl Inderfurth, the new assistant secretary of state for South Asian Affairs, detailed U.S. views on Afghanistan to the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East and South Asia October 22, stressing…
