Informes

DATE=9/10/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-202872 TITLE=BURUNDI SANCTIONS (S) BYLINE=SCOTT STEARNS DATELINE=BUJUMBURA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: BURUNDI'S MILITARY-APPOINTED PRESIDENT IS TRYING TO GET EAST AFRICAN LEADERS TO LIFT THEIR ECONOMIC SANCTIONS. AS V-O-A'S SCOTT STEARNS REPORTS FROM BUJUMBURA, THE BURUNDI GOVERNMENT IS CONSIDERING A NUMBER OF MOVES TO EASE…

From Segun Adeyemi; PANA Correspondent NEW YORK, (PANA) - The United Nations Tuesday praised the east and central African states for easing of regional sanctions on Burundi to allow some humanitarian aid into the country. "We are very happy because…

The Oxfam Emergencies Report gives an overview of Oxfam's recent emergency work around the world, for use in communications work. For further information on any of the emergencies outlined below, email Supporter Services on Oxfam@oxfam.org.uk or phone +44 1865…

Three trucks carrying special WFP food to revive nearly five thousand severely malnourished children - many of them near death - arrived today in the strife-torn jungle city of Tubmanburg, Liberia, where more than half the city's estimated population…

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Relief workers visiting an area isolated for seven months by fighting have found thousands of people at risk of starvation, including children so severely malnourished that flesh was falling from their feet. A humanitarian convoy visited…

DATE=9/9/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-202830 TITLE=LIBERIA AID (L-ONLY) BYLINE=KIRK TROY DATELINE«IDJAN CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: AID WORKERS IN LIBERIA HAVE REPORTED FINDING THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM HUNGER IN TUBMANBURG JUST WEST OF THE CAPITAL, MONROVIA. KIRK TROY REPORTS EMERGENCY SHIPMENTS OF FOOD AND MEDICINE ARE NOW BEING…

By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Aid workers fed thousands of starving children Monday with the first donated food to reach their city in seven months, after fighting among Liberia's rival militias cut off supplies. Relief officials entered…

Period covered: 26 August - 9 September 1996 Main Current Humanitarian Events 1. The Ministry of Planning and Economic Development (MOPED) and the Ministry of National Reconstruction, Resettlement and Rehabilitation (MNRRR) organised three simultaneous regional workshops in Bo, Kenema and Makeni from…