Informes

JOHANNESBURG, 2 February (IRIN) An Antonov AN-12 cargo plane crashed in a shanty settlement in the Angolan capital Luanda early on Tuesday claiming over 20 lives. Sources in Luanda told IRIN the aircraft owned by a private company, had just…

New York - The two major districts of Brazzaville, the capital of the Congo, a country which had received virtually no press attention, were empty of their residents and had both been severely and efficiently looted, Martin Griffiths, the…

News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty International * News Service 022/99 - AI Index: AFR 12/03/99 PUBLIC STATEMENT Amnesty International today expressed strong fears that the collapse of the peace process and the withdrawal of aid workers and peacekeepers…

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: Strategic town seized Western diplomats in Angola this week confirmed reports that the UNITA rebel movement led…

LISBON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Angola's President Jose Eduardo dos Santos reshuffled his government on Friday, taking personal charge of the armed forces' campaign against UNITA rebels. In a statement read to parliament, dos Santos said he was taking over…

Mildred Mulenga, PANA Correspondent LUSAKA, Zambia (PANA) - The Angolan government has threatened military action against Zambia, Uganda, Rwanda, Togo and Burkina Faso for allegedly supporting UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi. A press statement released by Zambia's foreign affairs ministry late Wednesday…

JOHANNESBURG, 28 January (IRIN) - The Angolan rebel movement UNITA has seized the strategic northern town of M'banza Congo 500 km north of the capital Luanda after several days of intense fighting, according to news reports on Thursday. Local news…

LUSAKA, Zambia (PANA) - The Inter African Network for Human Rights and Development (Afronet) Thursday urged the Zambian government not to take Angola's latest threat of military action lightly. In a statement issued in Lusaka, the human rights organisation said it…

Jerome Hule PANA Correspondent NEW YORK, UN (PANA) A Preliminary report by the UN on its second plane crash in Angola on 2 January says both the cockpit voice and flight data recorders were found removed from the aircraft, an…

News Release ROME - The United Nations World Food Programme confirmed the death of one of its Angolan staff members, Pedro Moreira, who was among the nine passengers and crew of the UN-chartered C-130 plane that crashed in the central…