Informes

Background on the West African Conflict(s) The civil conflicts of the 1990s in the Sierra Leone and Liberia transformed Guinea into one of the largest refugee hosting countries in the world, with refugees at times comprising seven percent of the…

S/2003/374 I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to Security Council resolution 1464 (2003) of 4 February 2003, in which the Council requested me to submit recommendations on how the United Nations could support fully the…

Geneva (ICRC) -- A number of people detained in connection with the conflict were released yesterday in Brazzaville in the presence of several ministers of the Congolese government, representatives of Reverend Ntumi's National Resistance Council and the ICRC. The Congolese…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (USAID) BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Note: The last situation report was dated November 18, 2002. Background The Tutsi minority, which represents 14 percent of Burundi's 6.85 million…

Church, Grassroots Leaders Supporting Civil Society, Taking On Peace with Justice, Development, NEPAD NEW YORK, NY, 3/25/03 ­ Ending a two-week mission to the U.S. this past weekend (3/21), a delegation from Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, The Gambia, and Ghana…

GENERAL SITUATION Numbers Entering Guinea from Ivory Coast A further 53 people entered Guinea from Ivory Coast in the reporting period. Of these, seven are Guineans, 11 Ivorians and 35 other West African nationals. 46,770 people have arrived from Cote d'Ivoire and been…

The following statement was issued today by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Sergio Vieira de Mello: The High Commissioner for Human Rights expresses profound concern at the continuing armed conflict in Liberia and its toll on the civilian…

GENEVA, March 21 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency today launched a revised appeal for $29 million to help some 163,000 people who could be affected by a crisis in Côte d'Ivoire that has already displaced hundreds of thousands…

AI Index: AFR 62/009/2003 (Public) The Ugandan authorities should bring suspected perpetrators of the serious human rights abuses committed in Ituri to justice before Uganda's courts, Amnesty International said today in a new report on the deteriorating situation in Ituri…

S/2003/344 Letter dated 17 March 2003 from the Permanent Representative of South Africa to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General I have the honour to forward herewith, in my capacity as the representative of the current Chairman of the African Union,…