Rapports

Sudan The food situation in Sudan's northern Kordofan State remains acute. Cereal prices are four times higher than they were at this time last year, and donors are concentrating on providing enough food and water to forestall large-scale migration from…

BAILUNDO, Angola (AP) -- UNITA rebels rejected an offered vice presidential post for their leader Tuesday, setting back efforts to establish a coalition government to end Angola's two-decade civil war. President Jose Eduardo dos Santos had made the offer personally to…

Angola Update 15 August 96 - Angola's joint ceasefire commission ordered a board of inquiry to investigate landmine blasts in the diamond-rich Lunda-Sul region on a stretch of road already demined. Two UN peacekeepers were killed on the road, between Saurimo…

Angola Country Report Structure Under the Unit for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance to Angola (UCAH), the Central Mine Action Office (CMAO), in cooperation with the United Nations Verification Mission to Angola (UNAVEM III), is developing a comprehensive mine action plan,…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi U.S. diplomats are brokering a deal that would allow a military leader installed in last months coup to be officially recognized as president, sources close to the talks said Sunday. The deal would require military leader Pierre Buyoya to…

BUJUMBURA (Aug 26, 1996 11:00 a.m. EDT) Much of Burundi's capital was without mains electricity on Monday after Hutu rebels cut power lines to Bujumbura, stepping up pressure on the city already suffering from nearly a month of regional…

(For the week of August 19-26, 1996) (The weekly news summary was compiled from various wire sources) 8/22/96 Savimbi told delegates at the recent UNITA party congress that "UNITAs soldiers are not preparing for war . . .…

Ref: DHAGVA - 96/0295 1. UN RESIDENT COORDINATOR IN ADDIS ABABA REPORTS FURTHER DETERIORATION IN FLOODS SITUATION ALONG AWASH RIVER BASIN. 2. DESPITE EFFORTS UNDERWAY TO STRENGTHEN AND RAISE FLOOD PROTECTION DIKES EITHER SIDE OF RIVER, MORE AND MORE AREAS ARE REPORTED…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- The Awash River has flooded one of Ethiopia's two sugar factories, forcing the evacuation of 20,000 people, the state-run Ethiopian News Agency reported Sunday. The river is swollen because of heavy seasonal rains. It broke through…