Informes

June 7, 2000 (4:00 p.m. EDT) No. 145 Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy today announced that the office of the Canadian Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, will be headed by Nicholas Coghlan, a Foreign Service human rights specialist currently posted to…

Pour faire face aux conséquences de la sécheresse qui sévit en Ethiopie particulièrement dans la région du Hararghe, le Secours Catholique et plusieurs Caritas européennes affrètent quatre avions transportant chacun 36 tonnes de fret. Leur départ s'échelonnera tout au long…

FONDATION HIRONDELLE - AGENCE DE PRESSE HIRONDELLE A ARUSHA TRIBUNAL PENAL INTERNATIONAL POUR LE RWANDA NEWS DU 7 JUIN 2000 Arusha, 7 juin 2000 (FH) - Le médiateur dans les pourparlers inter-burundais, l'ancien président sud-africain Nelson Mandela, a déclaré mercredi avoir atteint…

World Vision is boosting its relief efforts in southern Ethiopia as the malnutrition rates for pre-schoolers jumps to 25 per cent, up from almost 17 per cent just a month ago. The agency is setting up a new therapeutic…

At a Glance: UNHCR seeks urgent donor support of $7.5 million to cover immediate humanitarian needs in Sudan, Eritrea, Yemen and Djibouti. New airlift planned for Eritrea; first flight due Friday. More new arrivals in Sudan amid continuing reports of fighting in southwest…

HORN OF AFRICA: UN appeals for $378 million for drought victims The UN on Wednesday launched an emergency appeal for US $378 million to avert the effects of drought in Ethiopia, Kenya, Eritrea, Somalia and Djibouti. The appeal aims to…

NATIONS UNIES Bureau de Coordination des Affaires Humanitaires - IRIN Pour l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est Tél: +254 2 622 147 Fax: +254 2 622 129 E-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org RDC: De violents affrontements au Sud-Kivu De violents affrontements ont été signalés dans certaines parties du Sud-Kivu…

NAIROBI 7 June (IRIN) - President Daniel arap Moi appealed to the international community on Wednesday for US $148 million in aid to combat a drought which put 80 percent of the Kenyan population at risk. Moi, who called a…

(Conflict and drought in south-eastern Ethiopia) While the ongoing border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea in the north continues to have major humanitarian repercussions, particularly with respect to the hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Eritrea, in south-eastern Ethiopia, the…

NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) (Panafrican News Agency, June 7, 2000) - The Meteorological Department has forecast a frost disaster likely to hit Kenya's central and some parts of eastern provinces between July and August. It cautioned coffee and tea farmers that their…