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Origins: Trócaire, the Irish Catholic Agency for World Development, established a relief and rehabilitation programme in Rwanda during the course of the genocide and war of 1994. The programme was designed to meet some of the most urgent needs in…

SPECIAL REPORT CROP AND FOOD SUPPLY SITUATION IN LIBERIA 26 January 1999 ° 1.OVERVIEW ° 2. FOODCROP PRODUCTION IN 1998 ° 2.1 Factors Affecting Foodcrop Production ° 2.2 Production ° 3. CEREAL SUPPLY AND DEMAND IN 1999 1.OVERVIEW Since 1996 it…

For more than a year and a half, families in the West African nation of Sierra Leone have been struggling to provide for themselves in the midst of a conflict between rebel military forces and the elected government. In…

ACT ALERT Sierra Leone - No 1/99 Geneva, 8 January 1999 According to UN and media reports, rebel forces from the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and the ousted Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) stormed into Freetown on Wednesday (6 January) seizing…

Introduction Continuing peace in Liberia has allowed humanitarian agency activities to be increasingly directed towards repatriation, resettlement and rehabilitation, with programmes shifting from emergency relief to development. As a result, there have been many initiatives to improve…

SPECIAL REPORT 1. OVERVIEW An FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission visited Burundi in February 1998 to evaluate the 1998 first season (1998A) production, forecast harvest for the second and third seasons (1998B and C), and estimate…

SPECIAL REPORT1. OVERVIEW In view of the intense civil strife in the Republic of Congo between May and November 1997 and the consequent large-scale displacement of the population, especially from the urban to rural areas, an FAO/WFP…

The following is excerpted from the U.S. Committee for Refugees' newly published issue paper: February 1998, by Jeff Drumtra, Africa Policy Analyst. Please note that this email is not the full report. For copies of the report in full, please send…

Claude Bruderlein Team Leader Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs I. Introduction 1. The UN Security Council in its informal consultations on 22 December 1997 requested a technical analysis of the humanitarian situation in Sierra Leone since the coup d'état , including the…

S P E C I A L R E P O R T16 February 1998MISSION HIGHLIGHTS Despite an increase of 14 percent in the 1998 A season food crop production over last year’s A season the output…