Informes

U N I T E D N A T I O N S Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for Central and Eastern Africa Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org RWANDA: Troops to…

General Situation The security situation has deteriorated throughout the country over the last month with a significant increase in the number of ambushes, mine incidents, and attacks on civilian convoys and vehicles. These incidents have resulted in a number of…

April 7, 1999 12:41 GMT, updated 13:22 GMT: LUSA is reporting that a combined allied force of Angolan, Zimbabwean, and Namibian troops have begun combat operations against UNITA Angolan rebels in the northwestern Angola-southwestern DR Congo border region. LUSA said…

JOHANNESBURG, 6 April (IRIN) - Angolan Defence Minister Kundi Payhama said that all men born in the year 1978 could be conscripted for army service and that they had until the end of the month to report for duty. In…

WHO mounts outbreak control campaign to vaccinate 700,000 children The World Health Organization today confirmed that the cause of an outbreak of paralysis among children living in Angola, Central Africa, was polio. A WHO mission team has been despatched to work…

JOHANNESBURG, 6 April (IRIN) - Angolan Defence Minister Kundi Payhama said that all men born in the year 1978 could be conscripted for army service and that they had until the end of the month to report for duty. In…

ACUTE FLACCID PARALYSIS - FURTHER CASES SHOWN UP OVER EASTER 130 is the current total of cases of acute flaccid paralysis registered in three different public hospitals in Luanda (Cajueiros Hospital, in Cazenga; Golfe Hospital, in Kilamba Kiaxi, and the Paediatric…

SUMBE, Angola (PANA) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) Representative in Angola, Francesco Stripolli, has said the country was facing a ''critical humanitarian situation'' with at least 700,000 persons newly displaced by the country's civil war. Speaking Thursday in…

UNITED NATIONS Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for Southern Africa Tel: +27 11 880 4633 Fax: +27 11 880 1421 e-mail: irin-sa@irin.org.za ANGOLA: Security deteriorates across the country Security deteriorated across Angola this week recent as UNITA rebels shelled…

The formation of a rebel movement The Angolan rebel movement, Uniao Nacional para a Independencia Total de Angola, is best known by its acronym, UNITA. One of three guerrilla movements spawned by the independence war against the Portuguese colonial authorities…