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EMERGENCY RESPONSE OFFICE 32 Denominations & Communions Working Together to Meet Human Needs This alert does not guarantee that an appeal will follow. To give your input, see contact at end of bulletin. Some 2.5 million people face starvation due to…

KIGALI, Rwanda (Reuter) - Rwanda's military strongman said Friday the government had the right to divert foreign aid to its war against Hutu extremists because providing security in the country was the top priority. Defense Minister Paul Kagame, whose mainly Tutsi…

From Ghion Hagos ; PANA Staff Correspondent ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has ruled out war with neighbouring Sudan in spite of what he termed "massive military propaganda" from Khartoum and the diplomatic stand-off between…

THIS APPEAL SEEKS CHF 885,000 IN CASH, KIND AND SERVICES TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO 42,000 VICTIMS FOR 3 MONTHS Summary Cyclone Gretelle, which was of unprecedented violence (destroying national monuments, including churches and prisons), struck south-east Madagascar on 24 and 25…

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (PANA) - The Burundi Democratic Front (FRODEBU), the former ruling party in that strife-torn country, on Thursday requested for United Nations troops to restrain the military government in Bujumbura from further harassment of the masses. The…

Emergency Response in Mundri and Maridi: World Vision distributed 580 displaced kits and some food at Nabanga camp about 105 Km from Maridi and the distribution went on well. The population of returnees was 2020 persons, the situation is still…

Contact: Dennis Grace (202)828-0110 The current fear in Rwanda is that it may become another Burundi. Rwanda has achieved dramatic infrastructure and security improvements in the two years since the 1994 genocide. Recently, however, Rwanda has been plagued by increasing…

NEW YORK (PANA) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has begun investigations into the Tuesday killing of four of its field agents in Rwanda, and has asked the country's military to do likewise. "I strongly condemn this…

TRIPOLI, Libya (PANA) - Sudanese Vice-President Gen. Zoubeir Mohamed Salah on Tuesday evening conferred with the Libyan leader, Col. Moammar Kadhafi in Tripoli, as part of Khartoum's diplomatic offensive in the wake of a worsening military situation in the southern…

*97020507.AAF (High Commissioner Ayala-Lasso condemns attack) (360) By Judy Aita and Wendy Lubetkin USIA Correspondents UNITED NATIONS -- U.N. Security Council President Njuguna Mahugu called in the Rwandan representative February 5 to find out how his government intends to protect U.N. workers in…