Rapports

The United Nations Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Great Lakes Region today renewed a call on behalf of aid agencies to exempt humanitarian assistance from sanctions imposed on Burundi by its neighboring states. Mr. Martin Griffiths appealed to regional and local…

Thursday, 6 March 1997: UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy today condemned the continuing abduction of children by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda and called for the immediate release of all the youngsters now in captivity. Armed opposition…

By Moyiga Nduru LONDON, Mar 6 (IPS) - A major catastrophe is in the making in the Nuba Mountains in Sudan where an estimated 500,000 people have run out of food and need emergency relief aid, say Sudanese…

Paul Ejime PANA Staff Correspondent KIGOMA, Tanzania (PANA) - Tanzania has launched an international appeal for assistance to enable it cope with the increasing number of Zairian refugees flocking into its western region of Kigoma, on the shores of Lake…

Ethiopian News Agency Addis Ababa (ENA) - Drought and famine have occurred in three areas of south-western Somalia, the British Broadcasting Service (BBC) reported on Monday. BBC has quoted the National Relief and Rehabilitation Committee (NRRC) appointed by faction leader Hussen…

DATE= MARCH 5, 1997 TYPE= EDITORIAL NUMBER= 0-07182 TITLE= EDITORIAL: SUDAN HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES CONTENT=THIS IS THE ONLY EDITORIAL BEING RELEASED FOR BROADCAST MARCH 5, 1997. ANNCR: THE VOICE OF AMERICA PRESENTS DIFFERING…

10:10 a.m. EST NAIROBI, March 5 (Reuter) - Aid agencies said on Wednesday Somalia's faction leaders are primarily responsible for fighting the drought there and should improve security to allow foreign aid workers to operate. Answering a flood of recent…

WHO: CARE, the world's largest independent relief and development organization, provides land mine awareness and clearance programs in Angola and removes land mines on or near highly traveled roads in Cambodia. Land mines impede the lives of millions of…

HARGEISA, Somalia (Mar 4, 1997 09:31 a.m. EST) - The self-declared republic of Somaliland says aid agencies have three weeks to recognise it as an independent state or stop work and leave. Somaliland President Mohamed Ibrahim Egal, re-elected on February 23…

Mildred Mulenga PANA Staff Correspondent LUSAKA, Zambia (PANA) - Zambia on Tuesday appealed to donors community to assist government's government efforts to deal with the influx of Zairean refugees running away from the crisis in the East. Zambia's home affairs minister,…