Reports

(11:57am AEST) Afghanistan's Taliban movement has asked the United Nations to grant it diplomatic recognition as the country's legitimate government. Taliban fighters drove the government of Burhanuddin Rabbani, out of the capital Kabul last September, but Rabbani's faction continues to hold…

(Excerpt from:) ICRC NEWS 16 More than 400,000 people are currently receiving ICRC assistance in Afghanistan, including almost 300,000 in Kabul alone. Over 200,000 of them (destitute war widows, orphans, disabled and elderly people) are considered to be particularly disadvantaged. Both…

Food for the Hungry Joins Alliance to Avert Tragedy Contact: Sally Digges - (602) 998-3100, ext 129; sallyd@fh.org (April 30, 1997) - Food for the Hungry has joined an alliance of Christian relief and development organizations to call attention to the terrible…

From the frontline Heavy fighting continues in Badghis, with Taliban reinforcements being brought in to strengthen the frontline. These include religiously-motivated foreign volunteers. The Supreme Council for the Defence of Afghanistan is reported to have retaken recent Taliban gains and to have…

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies today welcomed the intiative of two of its member societies to meet this week to discuss how to work together to help hundreds of thousands of people suffering from…

It has been claimed that food supplies in the North Korean countryside have completely run out and farmers are surviving on grass and bark alone. The Pyongyang representative of the International Federation of the Red Cross, Ole Gronning, says all…

DATE=4/29/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-213535 TITLE=U-S / NOKOR FOOD (S/L) BYLINE=VICTOR BEATTIE DATELINE=WASHINGTON CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE UNITED STATES SAYS IT IS PREPARED TO SERIOUSLY CONSIDER MORE EMERGENCY FOOD AID TO NORTH KOREA, WHICH A U-N OFFICIAL WARNS FACES ONE OF THE…

Catherine Bertini, the executive director of the World Food Programme, today urged the international community to respond quickly to appeals for food aid to North Korea. "The window of opportunity to avert famine is rapidly closing and could already have…

Washington, D.C., April 28 (KASM) Famine would soon strike North Korea's 23 million people . We strongly encourage you to participate in a nationwide Reconciliation Aid Program (RAP), a North Korea relief aid project developed by the Korean American…

DATE=4/28/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-213504 TITLE=W-F-P / NORTH KOREA (L ONLY) BYLINE=PEGGY POLK DATELINE=ROME CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE U-N WORLD FOOD PROGRAM IS APPEALING FOR MASSIVE FOOD AID FOR NORTH KOREA. AS PEGGY POLK REPORTS FROM ROME, THE AGENCY'S DIRECTOR SAYS THAT LACKING ASSISTANCE, THE COUNTRY COULD…