Rapports

(No. 16 ACC/SCN, Geneva, 20 June 1996)(extracts) Sustained peace is allowing an expansion of relief and rehabilitation activities throughout the country. However, over one million people are still estimated to require emergency assistance until March 1997. Nutritional surveys generally show…

Angola: Sustained peace is allowing an expansion of relief and rehabilitation activities throughout the country. However, over one million people are still estimated to require emergency assistance until March 1997. Nutritional surveys generally show low levels of wasting…

LUANDA, June 17 (Reuter) - The United Nations on Monday praised Angola's UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi for disarming more than 49,000 soldiers by the weekend. U.N. chief to Angola, Alioune Blondin Beye, held talks with Savimbi at Andulo in the…

New Government Formed to Tackle Economic Crisis On 3 June Angolan President Eduardo Jose dos Santos announced a dramatic reshuffle of his Government to deal with the growing economic and social crisis facing the country. The sacking of the Prime Minister,…

6/13/96 The government has approached Savimbi to strike an agreement on the country's lucrative diamond mines. Details of the meeting have not been disclosed. The government has said it loses some $550 million per year due to illegal diamond mining which…

C. ANGOLA 1. Update a) WFP recommences food assistance in Chongoroi, Benguela province. b) Alarming nutritional situation reported in Bie province. C. ANGOLA 1. UPDATE 1.1 As reported in WFP Emergency Report no. 20, a WFP convoy was sent to Chongoroi in response to a…

6/6/96 International observers say Angola is still unsafe for hundreds of thousands of refugees. US Ambassador Donald Steinberg said, "The situation in the country is still not secure enough for the war displaced to go back home. We still have…

OVERALL SITUATION DURING THE REPORTING PERIOD, REPRESENTATIVES OF NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE, UNITA AND HUMANITARIAN ORGANISATIONS INVOLVED IN HEALTH MET FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS YEAR TO DEFINE A COMMON STRATEGY FOR HEALTH ACTIVITIES IN ANGOLA. THIS JOINT UCAH-WHO INITIATIVE IS…

"Given present conditions, the harvest on the Central Planalto will not reach half the amount needed for people's subsistence, nor will there be any surplus for trading or planting";, ICRC agronomists concluded following a survey on the food situation…

SITUATION - Under the Unit for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance to Angola (UCAH), the Central Mine Action Office (CMAO), in cooperation with the United Nations Verification Mission to Angola (UNAVEM III), is developing a comprehensive mine action plan, established…