Rapports

(Excerpt) DAILY HIGHLIGHTS United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appealed to the warring factions in Afghanistan to come to their senses and return to the negotiating table immediately. In a report on the situation in Afghanistan released at UN headquarters, the…

(3:06am AEST) The United Nations refugee agency says up to four thousand refugees have crossed into Turkmenistan over the last 24 hours after fleeing fighting in Afghanistan. A UNHCR official in the Turkmen capital, Ashkhabad, said the civilians were mostly women,…

(10:02pm AEST) The highest-ranking United Nations official to visit North Korea because of the famine has arrived in Pyongyang. The official Korean Central News Agency said the U-N undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs, Yasushi Akashi, would be in North Korea until…

Pledges and contributions The Norwegian Government is to donate US$ 141,240 to Save the Children (US) Mine awareness activities in Kabul -- providing these benefit women and girls as well as men and boys. Mine action funding crisis The UNOCHA Mine…

(9:46am AEST) U-S President Bill Clinton says he'd like to do more to alleviate widespread food shortages in North Korea. Mr Clinton has also expressed hope that those countries which attended the G-8 meeting in Denver, would also contribute. Estimates by…

(2:53pm AEST) A South Korean ship has set sail for North Korea, carrying the first direct sea shipment of southern Red Cross food aid since the North first appealed for international help in 1995. The ship, carrying one-thousand tonnes of corn and…

(11:36am AEST) Japan has expressed a willingness to join President Bill Clinton in providing more aid to famine-stricken North Korea. Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto has hinted he is prepared to drop his refusal to give aid to North Korea. Japan has…

CHURCH WORLD SERVICE EMERGENCY RESPONSE OFFICE 33 Denominations & Communions Working Together to Meet Human Needs EMERGENCY ACCOUNT #7633U, originally issued Dec. 23, 1996 SUMMARY: SITUATION: Reports of grave malnutrition -- of a famine in "slow motion" -- continue to emerge from…

BANGLADESH, June 23, 1997 -- One month after a strong cyclone hit the southeast coast of Bangladesh, CARE has completed relief operations reaching 14,000 families and is now assessing the need for reconstruction programs. The cyclone, packing winds…

DATE=6/23/97 TYPE=BACKGROUND REPORT NUMBER=5-36762 TITLE=AFGHANISTAN / WAR OF NEIGHBORS BYLINE=ALI JALALI DATELINE=ALMATY CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: PAKISTAN FOREIGN MINISTER GOWHAR AYUB VISITED THE CAPITALS OF SEVERAL CENTRAL ASIAN STATES TO PROMOTE THE IDEA OF HOLDING A REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON WAYS TO END THE CIVIL WAR…