Informes

JOHANNESBURG, 18 May (IRIN) - The Russian authorities on Tuesday asked Angola's ambassador in Moscow "to do his utmost" to help find three Russian airmen reportedly captured last week by the UNITA rebel movement. In a brief dispatch, the Russian…

JOHANNESBURG, 18 May (IRIN) - The UN's senior humanitarian coordinator in Angola said on Tuesday the international community would soon face a new "human tragedy" in Africa if the Angola crisis became another "forgotten emergency". In an interview with IRIN,…

Lara Pawson reported for Reutersthat humanitarian conditions in Malanje are "extremely worrying" and the humanitarian situation in the rest of Angola continues to deteriorate as well. The problem is that the dos Santos government is hunkered down defending the provincial capitals…

ANGOLA: UNITA downs Russian plane The rebel movement UNITA said on Monday it had downed a Russian military transport plane and was holding three crew members hostage. According to news reports the plane was shot down in the northern province…

JOHANNESBURG, May 17 (Reuters) - Angola's UNITA rebel movement said on Monday it shot down a Russian military transport plane last week in the northern province of Lunda Norte and was holding three crew members hostage. UNITA said in a…

RNIS Update - May 1999 This update contains information on Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo-Brazzaville, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda and the Kosovo crisis. ANGOLA The humanitarian crisis in Angola is becoming extremely severe. Obtaining access to the nearly one and half…

Press Release SG/SM/6995 - 19990517 Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan's address to the "Appeal for Peace Conference" at The Hague on 15 May: My dear friends and fellow workers for peace, thank you for that wonderful welcome! I cannot tell you…

WINDHOEK, Namibia (PANA) - Namibia will do anything in its power to help end the war in Angola, foreign Minister Theo-Ben Gurirab said in Windhoek Monday. Speaking during a meeting with the chairman of the UN Committee of the Security…

JOHANNESBURG, 17 May (IRIN) - South Africa said on Monday it would do everything it could to help tighten the UN sanctions imposed on the Angolan rebel movement, UNITA. The announcement by a foreign ministry spokesman was made as Angola's…

By Lara Pawson LUANDA, May 17 (Reuters) - Humanitarian conditions in the Angolan city of Malanje, under siege by UNITA rebels for months, have become "extremely worrying", according to officials from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). The city, about…