Rapports

Emergency Response Office KENYA/TANZANIA DROUGHT - $515,000 Disaster Bulletin No. 7632S Signed by Rodney Page, CWS Executive Director SUMMARY : - SITUATION: Kenya faces impending mass hunger due to a severe drought in the country's semi-arid northern and eastern regions. Some 2.5 million people…

High Commissioner Sadako Ogata flies to Uganda - fourth stop in a six=ADcountry tour of the Great Lakes region to seek ways of easing refugee problems in the region. UNHCR is extremely alarmed fighting is threatening humanitarian programs for refugees…

April-July 1994: Rwanda's Army and militias incite the Hutu majority to slaughter up to 1 million minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus. July 4, 1994: Tutsi rebels defeat the Hutu-led Army, capture Kigali (the capital), and install a new government. July 19,…

DATE=2/12/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-209997 TITLE=ANGOLA GOVERNMENT (L ONLY) BYLINE=ALEX BELIDA DATELINE=JOHANNESBURG CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE FORMER ANGOLAN REBEL MOVEMENT UNITA PROMISED TO HAVE ITS REPRESENTATIVES TO A PROPOSED NEW COALITION GOVERNMENT IN LUANDA BY TODAY (WEDNESDAY. FEB, 12). BUT IN ANOTHER APPARENT SETBACK TO THE PEACE…

DATE=2/12/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-209996 TITLE=SUDAN FIGHTING (L) BYLINE=SCOTT STEARNS DATELINE=NAIROBI CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: SUDAN SAYS IT HAS LAUNCHED A MAJOR OFFENSIVE TO DRIVE REBELS BACK TOWARD THE ETHIOPIAN BORDER. BUT V-O-A EAST AFRICA CORRESPONDENT SCOTT STEARNS REPORTS THE REBELS DENY THE CLAIM, SAYING THERE HAS BEEN…

The information contained in this report was provided by the Office of the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Operational Activities in Burundi, UN Agencies, International Organisations and NGOs Over the past several weeks, the Buyoya government has compounded long standing efforts…

U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL CARE INTERNATIONAL'S PERSPECTIVE ON THE GREAT LAKES REGION Comments by Marc Lindenberg Senior Vice President for Program CARE USA February 12, 1997 =B0 INTRODUCTION =B0 THE IMMEDIATE CHALLENGES OF THE GREAT LAKES REGIONS AND IMPERATIVES FOR ACTION =B0 LONGER…

High Commissioner Sadako Ogata meets with high=ADlevel government officials in Rwanda, visits returnee sites. More UNHCR staff members return to posts in western Rwanda which they left following last weeks killings in Cyangugu. UN workers attempt to provide emergency relief aid…

From Segun Adeyemi ; PANA Correspondent NEW YORK, United Nations (PANA) - The United Nations has told Angolans that it will extend its mission in their country for two months if a government of national union and reconciliation is formed…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (PANA) - At least 1,500 students from the University of Bujumbura began a one-year military training here Monday. With their heads shaved, they became the first females to undertaken military training in the country's history. This is the second…