Rapports

A resurgence of violence in the Moluccas presents the latest threat to Indonesia's stability, and recent clashes in Central Sulawesi and continued tensions in Aceh add to the region's insecurity. Focusing on assistance to victims of recent violence in…

By Roli Ng MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine rescue workers called for extra chemicals and protective gear on Wednesday to ward off disease as they plucked more corpses from the ruins of a Manila shantytown buried under tons of garbage. Two days…

By Scott McDonald LONDON, July 10 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's ruling Taleban has issued orders telling all non-government organisations (NGOs) to sack all female staff working in Afghanistan, a Pakistan-based Afghan news agency reported on Monday. The Afghan Islamic Press said the…

TOKYO, July 11 (Reuters) - North Korea, hit by successive natural disasters that have left it dependent on international food aid for survival, said on Tuesday a recent drought will cause crop production to fall drastically this year. The Korean…

by Jean-Philippe Chauzy, IOM SpokespersonWest Timor IOM has resumed operations in the Oesau are near Kupang where the situation has returned to normal. Fighting which had erupted last week between local people and East Timorese refugees has…

A fifth of Mongolia's population - 500,000 people - face serious food shortages and an economic crisis following last summer's drought, severe winter storms and a spring drought this year. Nearly 2.6 million cows, horses, camels, goats and sheep out…

New York (dpa) - Afghanistan has been battered by drought and suffered because of arms sales to opposition forces funnelled through neighbouring countries, the Taliban envoy in New York said Wednesday. The fundamentalist Islamic rulers - who control most of the…

New York (dpa) - The U.N. will protest a decision by the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban to ban Afghan women from working with U.N. agencies and relief organizations there, the U.N. said Tuesday. The U.N. coordinator for Afghan relief, Eric de Mul,…

Minneapolis, July 11, 2000 -- Growing ethnic tensions, new infectious diseases, inadequate protection of internally displaced persons and politicization of humanitarian aid are among the challenges facing relief organizations in the post-Cold War era, a panel of experts told the…

The United Nations Coordinator for Afghanistan will meet with Taliban officials on their recent edict prohibiting Afghan women from working with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and UN agencies - a decision that will affect hundreds of women and jeopardize the implementation…