Informes

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] LUANDA, 17 Nov 2005 (IRIN) - UN World Food Programme (WFP) flights, which bring aid to half a million hungry Angolans and ferry more than a thousand humanitarian…

By Peter Apps MAPUTO, Aug 9 (Reuters) - The United Nations World Food Programme said it was distributing 4,500 tonnes of food in Mozambique a month, most of it imported maize from South Africa, but warned that poor funding was…

HARARE - Zimbabwe will beginning September sell fuel to motorists in hard currency in a desperate measure to end a six-year fuel shortage that worsened in recent months, almost bringing the crisis-hit country to a halt. In a monetary policy…

A meeting hosted by the Overseas Development Institute and the Great Lakes & East Africa Inter-Agency Emergency Preparedness Working Group. Nairobi, 11 May 2007 - The purpose of the meeting was to share and discuss the lessons emerging from recent experiences…

Seyfu Gebreselassie, a subsistence farmer living in Debdebo village in the northern region of Tigray, faced a grave situation in June 2003. The vital azmera rains that usually occur between February and May had failed, leaving crops stunted and…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] NAIROBI, 14 April (IRIN) - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has applauded donor countries for their generous pledges of US $4.5 billion in aid for Sudan, but warned that…

As a result of insufficient rainfall in 2002 and 2003, the Ethiopian Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Commission (DPPC) issued an international appeal for food assistance in December 2003. Some 7.2 million people were estimated to be…

Haimanot lives with her mother, sister and three brothers in the village of Tenquaoi Meskel (which means Wizard Cross) in the northern highlands of Ethiopia. "I get up in the morning and I fetch the water. Then I cook the…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] LILONGWE, 5 October (IRIN) - Malawi is losing 2.8 percent of its forest cover every year and has the highest deforestation rate in the Southern African Development Community. "Forest…