Rapports

HIGHLIGHTS Serious food shortages are emerging in southern Somalia. Despite a recovery in the 1996 main season cereal harvest, production remained well below pre-civil war levels and was reduced in several areas. The food situation is anticipated to be particularly tight…

Burundi - EIN/GVA/96/20 On 30 September, UNICEF Bujumbura organized its first air bridge' for the transport of emergency goods undertaken since the start of the economic embargo of Burundi by neighbouring countries. This operation was carried out with logistical support…

ABSTRACT The first part of the paper describes steps which Tanzania took in order to provide key social services to her people. Tanzania made great efforts within the ujamaa socialist system to provide free social services for…

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- In a bid to boost the local economy and humanitarian relief efforts, faction leader Hussein Aidid agreed Monday to reopen an airport under his control. Aidid's ministers said the decision to reopen the El-Ahmed airstrip at…

DATE=9/30/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-203895 TITLE=BURUNDI/UNITED STATES (S-ONLY) BYLINE=CHRIS TOMLINSON DATELINE=BUJUMBURA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE UNITED STATES SPECIAL ENVOY TO BURUNDI ARRIVED SUNDAY IN BUJUMBURA FOR FIVE DAYS OF MEETINGS IN HOPES OF EASING THE CRISIS IN THE SMALL CENTRAL AFRICAN COUNTRY. REPORTER CHRIS TOMLINSON IS IN…

The war-torn central African nation of Burundi has a twisted psychology all its own that drives extremists on all sides to massacre innocent, uprooted civilians as if they were conspirators and combatants-in-hiding, states a new report on Burundi released…

At a press briefing this afternoon, Justice Richard Goldstone said he was very grateful for the invitation to meet with correspondents on his last day in office as he wanted to thank the media for its support for and…

From Ferdinand Bigumandondera; PANA Correspondent BUJUMBURA, Burundi (PANA) - Over 2,000 secondary education students are expected Sunday to start military training in Burundi, the army has announced. A rally of young boys applying for the two-month militarry service, the first of…

KHARTOUM, Sudan (PANA) - Hundreds of Sudanese children staged Sunday a one-hour sit-in at Khartoum airport, to protest against a United Nations Security Council resolution that seeks to impose sanctions on Sudan. The children were drawing attention of the world to…