Rapports

(Excerpt) DAILY HIGHLIGHTS The members of the Security Council appealed on Monday to the warring parties in Afghanistan to stop the fighting immediately, and to seek a negotiated settlement through the efforts of the United Nations Special Mission to Afghanistan. The…

DATE=7/7/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-216761 TITLE=AFGHAN FIGHTING / S-O BYLINE=MEREDITH BUEL DATELINE=ISLAMABAD CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: IN AFGHANISTAN, REPORTS SAY WARPLANES OF THE ANTI-TALEBAN ALLIANCE HAVE BOMBED THE AIRPORT IN KABUL FOR THE THIRD DAY IN A ROW. V-O-A CORRESPONDENT MEREDITH BUEL REPORTS. TEXT: REPORTS FROM KABUL SAY JETS…

(Excerpt) Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme This report includes: A) Democratic People's Republic of Korea B) West Africa: Angola, Sierra Leone, Benin C) East Africa: Somalia, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda D) Central Africa: Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of…

An overwhelming 60 percent of voters support food aid to North Korea only if several issues with Pyongyang are solved, according to a recent Yomiuri Shimbun survey. About 23 percent…

Pledges and contributions The government of Australia has contributed US$313,313 to UNCHS for a safe drinking water project in Mazar-i-Sharif. From the frontline Fighting has continued north of Kabul, and for control of Kunduz…

Project Name: Assisting Children in DPRK Project Budget: US$650,000 Total Beneficiaries: 533,000 Approved: July 2, 1997 Introduction Four official visits have been made to the DPRK since February 1997. World Vision's (WV) commitment to the DPRK since initiation of our assistance…

Islamabad, 2 July 1997 (RFE/RL) - An Afghan opposition spokesman today denied that the Taliban Islamic militia had captured Taloqan, capital of the northeastern Takhar province. Dr Abdullah told reporters by satellite telephone the Taliban were nowhere near Taloqan. He…

DHA/97/14 Geneva - (Department of Humanitarian Affairs) - The United Nations today highlighted the plight of the people of Afghanistan and renewed its commitment to assist them. "The level of suffering experienced by the Afghan people is literally horrendous," said Alfredo…

News Update - 1 July, 1997 PYONGYANG, North Korea -- A ship chartered by the World Food Programme has arrived in North Korea with urgently needed food aid for the northeast of the country where hunger is widespread, WFP reported today. The…

June 1997 The Oxfam Emergencies Bulletin aims to give an overview of Oxfam's current emergency work world-wide, for use in communications work. It appears monthly. Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) - DPRK International concern over the reports coming out of the…