Rapports

DATE=5/28/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-214907 TITLE=AFGHAN FIGHTING UPDATE (S) BYLINE=MEREDITH BUEL DATELINE=MAZAR-I-SHARIF CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: IN NORTHERN AFGHANISTAN, THE TALEBAN HAVE WITHDRAWN FROM PARTS OF MAZAR-I-SHARIF, AFTER FIERCE FIGHTING TURNED THE STREETS INTO A WAR ZONE. DOCTORS AT THE MAIN HOSPITAL IN THE CITY REPORT AT LEAST…

Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance for Afghanistan Pledges and contributions AusAID has announced its intention to contribute US$ 390,625 to the UNOCHA Mine Awareness Programme. ECHO has this week contributed US$ 115,607 to the German Agro Action to provide…

We have no reports of major population movements out of northern Afghanistan following the Taleban's takeover of Mazar-i-Sharif at the weekend. Our officers report no movements around the major crossing points into Tajikistan, Uzbekistan or…

Special Report of the UN Resident Coordinator In December 1996, the DPRK Government and UNDP requested international support to start an expanded double-crop programme, following earlier field trials. The Government had planned to grow spring barley on 100,000 ha the…

BEIJING (Reuter) - Seoul on Monday agreed to send thousands of tons of food aid to Pyongyang under the first direct agreement between the Red Cross societies of rival North and South Korea in more than a decade. "We have…

By Dmitry Solovyov ALMATY, May 26 (Reuter) - The United Nations refugee agency on Monday played down fears that recent territorial gains by the Islamic Taleban militia in northern Afghanistan might trigger an exodus of refugees to former Soviet republics…

The context Against a background of increasingly serious food shortages in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), and growing donations in kind from the Republic of Korea National Red Cross (ROKNRC) and South Korean NGOs and the public,…

Red Cross officials from North and South Korea have reached an agreement on food aid for the hunger stricken North. As correspondent Camille Fennell reports the agreement comes after days of negotiations in Beijing. Red Cross negotiators from North and South Korea…

Afghanistan's Taliban Islamic militia has won control of more territory, as well as formal recognition by Pakistan. The Taliban's information and culture minister says the Islamic army has taken complete control of the northern provinces Kunduz, Samangan and Baghlan. It's also…

KABUL (Reuter) - Afghanistan's Taleban movement tightened its grip on the north, capturing more provinces, and won vital diplomatic recognition from Pakistan Sunday as routed opposition warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum fled to Turkey. The Taleban government appealed for world recognition…