Democratic People's Republic of Korea
(Excerpt) Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme This report includes: A) Democratic People's Republic of Korea B) Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo (Brazzaville), Burundi, and Tanzania C) Sudan D) Angola E) Sierra Leone F) Iraq. From P. Ares, Chief,…
Afghanistan
Islamabad, 5 June 1997 (RFE/RL) - Reports reaching the Afghan capital Kabul today say the Taliban Islamic militia is preparing for a new infantry assault on opposition forces north of the city. Western news media quote Taliban commanders as telling visiting…
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
United Nations agencies have warned North Korea will have NO food stocks left in two weeks. The Rome-based World Food Program says North Korea's food rationing system has almost collapsed and people are facing starvation. It says isolated cases of deaths…
Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD (Reuter) - Pakistan said Thursday that Afghanistan's Taleban had accepted peace proposals made by northern opposition leader General Abdul Malik, who handed the Islamic militia a stinging defeat in the north last week. A Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman told a…
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
By Lyndsay Griffiths LONDON (Reuter) - North Korea is teetering on the edge of "a major humanitarian crisis" and needs outside help within weeks, a top United Nations official said Thursday. Peter McDermott, UNICEF's deputy director of emergency programs, said all…
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
(Excerpt) Weekly News In addition to severe food shortages, North Korea is now facing the possible collapse of its health system. There is a severe lack of basic medicines. Consultations in health clinics and hospitals have gone down 75 percent as…
Afghanistan
(Excerpt) ICRC NEWS 21 ** SHORT MENU. AFGHANISTAN / MAINTAINING A VITAL PRESENCE: The renewed fighting in several parts of northern and eastern Afghanistan over the last ten days or so has led to a sharp rise in humanitarian needs. ** STORIES…
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Geneva, June 4, 1997 Dear Friends, On the following pages please find the report from the ACT Team visit to North Korea. The team left North Korea only yesterday and we are happy to share their report with you…
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
ROME -- A United Nations mission to North Korea reported today that the countrys food crisis is worsening rapidly and the last available government rations will run out by 20 June. The Food and Agriculture Organization/World Food Programme joint Crop and…
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
S P E C I A L A L E R T NO. 275 1. OVERVIEW Devastating floods in both 1995 and 1996 dealt a serious blow to the country's agriculture further constraining its ability to feed its population.…
