Informes

NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuter) - Mediator Julius Nyerere opened private talks on the stalled Burundi peace process in the Tanzanian capital on Thursday, diplomats said. They said the talks in Nyerere's office were being attended by the Secretary General of the…

News Service 130/96 AI INDEX: AFR 54/14/96 Following last week's slaughter of more than 115 Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda, Amnesty International today accused two armed opposition movements fighting the Ugandan Government of the callous and calculated abuse of human rights. The…

Adopted by the Security Council at its 3555th meeting, on 17 July 1995 The Security Council, Recalling its previous resolutions 918 (1994) of 17 May 1994, and 997 (1995) of 9 June 1995, Noting with concern that unexploded landmines constitute a substantial…

KHARTOUM, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan has agreed to the use of C-130 aircraft for the delivery of urgent relief supplies to the south of the country, the official daily 'Al Engaz Alwwtani' reported Wednesday. Khartoum had barred the delivery of relief…

(U.N. FAO and WFP agencies predict improvement) (630) WASHINGTON -- Food production in Rwanda is expected to rise by 15 percent this year, but to remain well below the pre-crisis level of 1990 -- and almost 600,000 people will need emergency…

The World Food Programme Executive Director, Catherine Bertini, welcomes yesterday's announcement by United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali that the Government of the Sudan will now permit WFP to resume airdrops of urgently needed food rations into southern Sudan using a…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (PANA) - Organization of African Unity Secretary-General Salim Ahmed Salim left here Tuesday for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, for consultations with the special envoys of the European Union and the United States on Burundi, the trouble-torn central…

HARARE, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Unita troops in Angola are now moving into designated assembly points in larger numbers, the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) said in a statement Tuesday. The ZNA said in the statement that peacekeeping efforts in Angola were…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (PANA) - Some 2,500 Burundian students, pupils and jobless people demonstrated in Bujumbura Monday in opposition to proposals for a regional military force that is to try and restore order in the country. Proposals for the force, to…

KAMPALA (Reuter) - The Ugandan army scoured the bushes for Sudanese refugees who vanished after an attack by Christian fundamentalist rebels at the weekend in which more than 100 were killed, a government minister said on Tuesday. U.N. aid agencies…