Informes

Sudan The dry season has arrived in southern Sudan. While much of the harvest is complete, farmers will continue to harvest the main sesame crop and the remaining sorghum crop through December. According to the FAO - UNICEF crop assessment,…

Uganda Uganda, a country that generally has a grain surplus, will have relatively little to export this year. The long-rains harvest was poorer than expected, and the current short rains have been poorly distributed. Kasese in the west and Kapchorwa…

SEVERE DIARRHOEAL DISEASE REPORTED IN LABONE... An outbreak of severe diarrhoeal disease was reported on 19 November in Labone, Eastern Equatoria, and continues to date, with more than 200 cases reported from all age groups. Some 153 people have been admitted…

KHARTOUM, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan has described the entry ban imposed by the United States on its officials and militarymen as a "regretable escalation " of the already strained relations between the two countries. In his reaction to an order…

DATE=11/25/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-206681 TITLE=RWANDA / AMNESTY (L ONLY) BYLINE=CHRISTINE FURNELL DATELINE=LONDON CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: A DELEGATION FROM THE HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL IS IN RWANDA, MONITORING THE RETURN OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF REFUGEES FROM ZAIRE. AMNESTY SAYS THE RWANDAN REFUGEES ARE CONTINUING TO…

DONORS IDENTIFY PRIORITIES FOR ACTION TO HELP REFUGEE REINTEGRATION IN CENTRAL AFRICA, CANADIAN MINISTER BOUDRIA SAYS AT CLOSE OF GENEVA MEETING GENEVA - A High-level meeting of donor countries and multilateral agencies concluded today with broad agreement on priority areas…

KAMPALA, Uganda (PANA) - Burundi's President Pierre Buyoya, who met President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda on Friday, is willing to start peace talks with other factions in his troubled country. Buyoya, who visted Museveni, he is also asking the neighbouring countries…

KHARTOUM, Sudan (PANA) - A senior official at thee Sudanese foreign ministry has said that a 30-day delay on imposing sanctions on Sudan by the Security Council would be an opportunity for the UN executive to reconsider the whole…

Judith Matloff, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor KIGALI, RWANDA -- Shakespeare once wrote: "What's in a name?" Here in Rwanda people are asking: "What's in a number?" Ever since fears of a Rwandan refugee crisis emerged three weeks ago,…

Judith Matloff, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor KIGOMBE, RWANDA -- Jean-Marie Vianey returned to his village last Sunday after a 2-1/2-year absence in Zaire to find Mukangabo Mujimimana and her family eating their evening meal in his home. The…