Rapports

(11:51am AEST) The United Nations refugee agency has identified Rwanda, Burundi and the former Zaire as the scene of major humanitarian tragedies. The head of the High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata says the ordeal of exhausted Rwandans and Burundians in the…

The World Food Programme today condemned the brutal killing of a local staff member and his family as well as a separate incident in which another WFP local contract employee was found dead in a forest after being shot…

Mildred Mulenga, PANA Correspondent SOLWEZI, Zambia (PANA) - The repatriation of some 27,000 Angolan refugees based at Meheba refugee settlement, northwestern Zambia, is being delayed by the absence of state control in Moxico Province, which is still under the former…

A weekly report on major developments concerning relief operations in southern Sudan SEEDS AND TOOLS DELIVERIES RESUME... The distribution of seeds and tools in Yei County, Eastern Equatoria, resumed on 17 June, following its disruption due to unavailability of road transport.…

(Continuing clashes reported between Rwandan Army and Interahamwe) (420) By Wendy Lubetkin USIA European Correspondent GENEVA -- The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says fighting in western Rwanda between the Rwandan Army and Ex-FAR/Interahamwe militants has intensified and that UNICEF aid workers are now…

reported by Margaret Jephson International communications associate World Vision Angola Director Philip Chester said World Vision staff were extremely concerned at reports of fighting between government forces and UNITA (Union for the Total Independence of Angola) in the diamond-rich Lunda Norte…

GENERAL The ousted president, Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, who on June 7 left the American Ambassador's residence where he had been staying since last year's July 25 coup d'etat, was prevented from holding a press conference in Bujumbura. He nonetheless gave several…

by Alex Cege (1,160 words) Worl Vision, an international relief organisation - in collaboration with Unicef - has produced a 28-page booklet titled Sattered Innocence" which documents the harrowing testimonies of children abducted by rebels in northern Uganda. It…

by Nyakwar Aketch For 10 years, he was the Bishop of Yei Diocese but he could not visit the headquarters of his See due to the civil strife in Southern Sudan. With the fall of the town of…

Contents 1. Chronology 2. Rumbek: Thousands face mass starvation 3. Senior Secondary School opens in Mapourdit 1. Chronology May 15: Uganda will not exchange prisoners of war with Sudan until Khartoum hands over 35 schoolgirls abducted by Christian fundamentalist rebels in September last year, Rebecca…