Informes

Ottawa -- Canada will provide humanitarian assistance and food aid to Angolans who have fled to safety as a result of the renewed internal conflict, the Honourable Diane Marleau, Minister for International Cooperation and Minister responsible for La Francophonie announced…

This report includes: A) Sierra Leone B) Guinea Bissau C) Angola D) Somalia E) Central Africa: DR Congo and Congo/Brazzaville F) Democratic People's Republic of Korea G) Afghanistan. From Manuel Aranda da Silva, Chief, Technical Support Service. Available on the Internet…

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 Southern Africa Tel: +2711 880 4633 Fax: +2711 880 1421 e-mail: irin-sa@irin.org.za Southern Africa: IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 6…

UNHCR is approaching authorities today in the port city of Matadi, southwest of Kinshasa on the border with Angola, in order to plan for a site for recently arrived Angolan refugees. An estimated 12,000 Angolans fled the area of…

JOHANNESBURG, 11 February (IRIN) - Nearly 20,000 refugees have fled in recent days across Angola's northern border into the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a UNHCR official told IRIN on Thursday. The announcement confirmed reports last week that thousands of…

ICRC NEWS 6 On 4 February three ICRC delegates and three local employees evacuated 73 orphans from the town of Kuando, in Huambo province, to the city of Huambo. The children had been trapped in the orphanage of the Catholic…

Extracted from the Daily Press Briefing of Office of Spokesman for Secretary-General of 10 February 1999 Angola: We received word that the Secretary-General's Special Representative in Angola, Issa Diallo, finally was able to deliver the Secretary-General's letter to Angolan President Jose…

JOHANNESBURG, 10 February (IRIN) Humanitarian officials in Angola said on Wednesday they were concerned that erosion set off by heavy rains was further endangering people in the besieged government-held city of Luena, some 800 km southeast of the capital Luanda. They…

JOHANNESBURG, 9 February (IRIN) - The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has said offered to help defuse three weeks of tension between Angola and Zambia over Angolan claims of Zambian assistance to the rebel UNITA movement. An SADC official told…

JOHANNESBURG, 8 February (IRIN) An estimated 11,000 people have fled towards the besieged government-held city of Malanje 380 km east of the Angolan capital Luanda in recent days despite a resumption of shelling by the UNITA rebel movement. According to…