Informes

JOHANNESBURG (AANA) March 15 - Angolan authorities last Saturday said more than 600 people had been killed in Malanje since November when the country's warring parties resumed fighting. About 700 others have been injured since UNITA rebels launched an offensive…

By Luke Baker LUANDA, March 15 (Reuters) - A U.N. special representative quietly left Angola on Monday after failing to end decades of fighting between government forces and UNITA rebels. Issa Diallo, head of the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola…

JOHANNESBURG, 15 March (IRIN) - The provincial government of Bie on Friday advised aid agencies working in Kuito to leave the area due to the deteriorating security situation. Relief workers told IRIN on Monday that the governor of Bie informed…

JOHANNESBURG, 12 March (IRIN) - Angola's maize output for the season to April is likely to fall by up to 25 percent following disruptions to planting from the renewed civil war, according to the Early Warning Unit, the Harare-based…

Johannesburg - Angolan government forces suffered heavy casualties when an attack they launched against Unita rebels around Andulo in the central highlands at the weekend was beaten off. The army has since admitted mounting a "tactical retreat" in the area. Unconfirmed…

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: Humanitarian situation worsens The UN Humanitarian Assistance Coordination Unit (UCAH) said in its weekly report…

JOHANNESBURG, 11 March (IRIN) - There are now over 650,000 confirmed internally displaced persons (IDPs) as a result of the fresh fighting between government forces and UNITA rebels which broke out in April last year. According to the UN Humanitarian…

Since the last GIEWS Special Alert for Angola in December 1998, the food outlook in the southwest African country has become "increasingly bleak", according to an Alert issued on 18 February. Intensified fighting since the end of the year,…

JOHANNESBURG (IRIN) - The number of internally displaced people (IDP) in Angola has risen dramatically to 650,000 since fighting resumed in earnest in November. Franceso Strippolli, the UN's Humanitarian Coordinator in Angola, told journalists in Geneva on Friday that the…

JOHANNESBURG, 8 March (IRIN) - Angolan authorities on Saturday said more than 600 people have been killed in Malanje since November when the country's warring parties resumed fighting. About 700 others have been injured since UNITA rebels launched an offensive…