Informes

LUANDA, 25 February (IRIN) - Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos held talks on Wednesday with his Mozambique counterpart, Joaquim Chissano and South Africa's foreign minister, Alfred Nzo, on ways of resolving tensions with neighbouring Zambia and the crisis in…

LUANDA, 25 February (IRIN) - The UN humanitarian coordinator in Angola said on Thursday he was "extremely pessimistic" about the plight of huge numbers of people being displaced by increased fighting in recent weeks between government forces and UNITA rebels. In…

by Steven A. Smith The conflict now raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo) and surrounding countries has put at risk the stability of central Africa for a generation. If unquenched, this conflagration will cost billions of dollars in…

S/1999/202 I. INTRODUCTION 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to the request of the Security Council in its presidential statement of 21 January (S/PRST/1999/3), in which the Council, inter alia, requested me to report to it on consultations with the…

News Article by PANA on February 23, 1999 at 09:54:40: Feature: Africa-Conflicts - Africa News Service PARIS, France (PANA, 02/22/99) - The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the year 2000 as the international year of a culture of peace, which is…

Angola's vice-minister for territorial administration, Higino Carneiro, has arrived in New York and has again rejected the UN Security Council's request to maintain a political and military presence in Angola. Evelyn Leopold, reporting for Reuters from New York, said Mr.…

UNITED NATIONS Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for Southern Africa Tel: +2711 880 4633 Fax: +2711 880 1421 e-mail: irin-sa@irin.org.za ANGOLA: The end of a decade of peacekeeping The UN will wind up a decade of military presence in…

LUANDA, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Portuguese Foreign Minister Jaime Gama on Friday pledged new aid for Angola to tackle a humanitarian crisis triggered by civil war. "We can announce that immediately the Portuguese government will donate $500,000 to Angola for…

LUANDA, 19 February (IRIN) - As Angolan government forces consolidated the recapture from UNITA rebels of the northern Zaire Province capital of M'banza Congo this week, the humanitarian community said it was concerned at reports that the local hospital…

Africa (regional) 1/99 Geneva, February 19, 1999 - Wars and civil conflicts continue in several countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Recently Angola, Sierra Leone, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Congo-Brazzaville have seen fighting break out again where relative peace had existed for some time.…