Rapports

Eleven people have have been killed and 20 others injured after Hutu rebels ambushed a convoy of mini-buses just outside the Rwandan capital, Kigali. As Africa correspondent Ben Wilson reports, it's the third fatal attack carried out by Hutu milita…

INTERNATIONAL APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE BACKGROUND FOR APPEAL 1. The UN Resident Coordinator in Nairobi reports that at the request of the Government of Kenya, the UN Disaster Management Team (UN-DMT) carried out a first assessment mission to drought affected north-eastern…

Emergency Appeal no. 01.04/96 situation report no. 4 period covered: October - December 1996 Some 20,000 refugees from the conflict and famine in neighbouring Somalia are still resident in three camps near Mombasa on the Kenyan coast. The Federation and Kenyan…

DATE=2/10/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-209900 TITLE=ANGOLA UNCERTAINTY (L ONLY) BYLINE=ELAINE JOHANSON DATELINE=UNITED NATIONS CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE UNITED NATIONS IS EXPRESSING NEW ANXIETY ABOUT THE PEACE PROCESS IN ANGOLA -- AS A DEADLINE APPROACHES WEDNESDAY FOR THE FORMER UNITA REBELS TO BEGIN SERVING IN A GOVERNMENT OF…

International aid workers have been called on to help save tens of thousands of starving people in drought-stricken Somalia. Somali faction leader, Hussein Mohamed Aidid, has appealed for food aid and vowed to ensure the security of foreign aid workers who…

DATE=2/10/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-209892 TITLE=BURUNDI / OGATA (L) BYLINE=SCOTT STEARNS DATELINE=NAIROBI CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE HEAD OF THE U-N REFUGEE AGENCY HAS ARRIVED IN BURUNDI. V-O-A EAST AFRICA CORRESPONDENT SCOTT STEARNS REPORTS THE U-N OFFICIAL SAYS IT IS NOT YET SAFE FOR BURUNDIAN REFUGEES TO RETURN…

EMERGENCY RESPONSE OFFICE 32 Denominations & Communions Working Together to Meet Human Needs This alert does not guarantee that an appeal will follow. To give your input, see contact at end of bulletin. Some 2.5 million people face starvation due to…

KIGALI, Rwanda (Reuter) - Rwanda's military strongman said Friday the government had the right to divert foreign aid to its war against Hutu extremists because providing security in the country was the top priority. Defense Minister Paul Kagame, whose mainly Tutsi…

From Ghion Hagos ; PANA Staff Correspondent ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has ruled out war with neighbouring Sudan in spite of what he termed "massive military propaganda" from Khartoum and the diplomatic stand-off between…

THIS APPEAL SEEKS CHF 885,000 IN CASH, KIND AND SERVICES TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO 42,000 VICTIMS FOR 3 MONTHS Summary Cyclone Gretelle, which was of unprecedented violence (destroying national monuments, including churches and prisons), struck south-east Madagascar on 24 and 25…