Rapports

JOHANNESBURG, 15 January (IRIN) At least 17 people were killed and about 15 injured when the lorry in which they were travelling detonated an anti-tank land mine 13 km outside Angola's second city, Huambo. Western diplomats, confirming a national television…

An aircraft of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) landed on Friday 15 January in Kuito, capital of Bié province, on Angola's Planalto. The region is the scene of heavy fighting between government forces and UNITA. After humanitarian…

Luanda - A team from the international medical relief organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), consisting of a medical doctor, a surgeon and a logistician, today went back to the city of Quito, Bie province, Angola. MSF has been working in…

The UN World Food Programme yesterday resumed relief flights to several towns in Angola where food and other supplies have dwindled to desperately low levels, putting large numbers of war-affected people at risk of starvation. WFP flights were suspended 11…

JOHANNESBURG, 14 January (IRIN) - The opposition UNITA movement says it has located the site of a second UN plane crash and will take a UN team to the area. According to UN spokesman Fred Eckhard, the pledge was…

JOHANNESBURG, 14 January (IRIN) The situation in the Angolan city of Malanje is continuing to deteriorate rapidly with unrelenting shelling of the city entering its second week, according to the UN Humanitarian Assistance Coordination Unit (UCAH) in Luanda. In a report…

The UN Deputy Emergency Relief Co-ordinator, Martin Griffiths, left New York on Wednesday to assess the humanitarian situation in three trouble spots in Africa. UN spokesman Fred Eckhard said that following recent developments in Angola and the deteriorating humanitarian situation, Mr.…

By Luke Baker LUANDA, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Angola's UNITA rebels, who this week renewed their artillery attack on the central city of Malanje, are trying to divide government forces in the capital from others in the north, analysts said. A…

The information contained in this report was provided by the United Nations Humanitarian Assistance Coordination Unit in Luanda (UCAH) GENERAL SITUATION The general military situation in the country is still characterised by widespread confrontations, in particular around Malange. There is information to…

ICRC staff distributed essential relief supplies in Huambo's Munda neighbourhood on 7 January. Tarpaulins, blankets, soap, cooking utensils and pails donated by UNICEF were provided for 426 displaced families (totalling 2,595 people) who had fled to the town in the…