Informes

A weekly report on major developments concerning relief operations in southern Sudan. ABUROC BOMBED... Staff of MEDAIR in Aburoc, Upper Nile, reported that some 35 bomblets were dropped on the town on 16 February. The MEDAIR compound was hit by four…

About 200 Somali refugees returned to northwest Somalia Tuesday at the start of UNHCRs voluntary repatriation for 290,000 of them in Ethiopia. The refugees, consisting of 35 families, boarded six buses from Teferi Ber camp outside of the northeastern town of…

January - December 1997 TABLE OF CONTENTSExecutive SummaryA. 1996 in Review1. Overview2. Funding Response to the 1996 Appeal for the Sudan3. United Nations Agency Activities in 1996 3.1 Food and Agricultural Organization 3.2 United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs A.…

DHA/97/4 Genève -- (Département des Affaires Humanitaires) -- Alors que les hostilités se poursuivent au Soudan, les Nations Unies lancent aujourd'hui un appel pour un montant de US $ 120,8 millions afin de couvrir les besoins humanitaires d'urgence de quelque 4,2…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (PANA) - The rehabilitation of victims of the civil war which has been raging in Burundi for three years will cost an estimated 54 billion Burundian francs (271 BF = 1 USD), according to a three-year plan…

Ref: DHAGVA - 97/0064 Alert for International Assistance 1. The UN Resident Coordinator in Lilongwe reports that recent heavy rains have caused severe flooding in southern Malawi. The regions most seriously hit are Chikwawa and Nsanje, while Mangochi and Ntcheu have…

Chronology Jan. 16: The Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) said today a joint rebel force had captured another Sudanese army garrison - Gadamyeeb - north-east of the town of Kassala as Khartoum declared an Islamic "holy war" to counter advancing…

KHARTOUM, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan has denied claims that its planes had raided a Ugandan border town. Uganda accused Sudan of bombing the northern border town of Moyo on Thursday evening, killing one woman. President Yoweri Museveni's military adviser for northern…

From Yahya El Hassan ; PANA Correspondent KHARTOUM, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan's minister for federal government, Ali al-Haj, expressed regret Thursday over what he called the silent attitude of the Organization of African Unity (O.A.U.) towards incursions by rebels into…

Emergency Response Office KENYA/TANZANIA DROUGHT - $515,000 Disaster Bulletin No. 7632S Signed by Rodney Page, CWS Executive Director SUMMARY : - SITUATION: Kenya faces impending mass hunger due to a severe drought in the country's semi-arid northern and eastern regions. Some 2.5 million people…