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LA SITUATION HUMANITAIRE Les combats se sont intensifiés de manière significative au cours du mois de juillet, limitant l'accès humanitaire et la capacité des agences des Nations Unies et des ONG à accéder à différents endroits de l'intérieur du pays…

AFFECTED POPULATIONS SUMMARY COUNTRY IDPs REFUGEES TOTAL AFFECTED POPULATION CHANGES % (in figures) Feb. 2002 July 2002 Feb. 2002 July 2002* Feb. 2002 July 2002 BURUNDI 375,509 387,469 28,003 28,062 403,521 415,531 2.97% (+ 12,010) DRC 2,275,111 2,275,000 365,025 346,540 2,640,136 2,621,540 0.7% (-18,596) ROC N/A 66,281 84,280 107,800 84,280 174,081 106.5% (+89,801) RWANDA N/A 7,000 35,011 35,840 35,011 42,840 22.4% (+7,829) TANZANIA N/A N/A 505,745 506,199 505,745 506,199 0.1% (+454) UGANDA 552,397 660,373 182,976 188,032 735,373 848,405 15.4% (+113,032) TOTAL 3,203,017 3,396,123 1,201,040 1,212,473 4,404,066 4,608,596 4.6% (+204,530) * Refugee figures as of May/June 2002 provided by UNHCR REGIONAL OVERVIEW & HIGHLIGHTS The information presented in this document represents best estimates of the number of displaced,…

Malnutrition and Disease: Killing Threats in Southern Africa. At least 300,000 people in southern Africa could die from hunger and disease in the next six months due to the worst food crisis of the last ten…

S/2002/836 Letter dated 26 July 2002 from the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council I should be grateful if you would circulate as a…

NAIROBI, 22 July (IRIN) - A prominent human rights organisation in the Republic of Congo (ROC) has called on the international community to "put pressure on the Congolese government to end the war in the Pool region so that…

NAIROBI, 16 July (IRIN) - A Rwandan-backed Congolese rebel group has arrested 10 members of its mutinous faction, forcing its leader, "Commandant" Patrick Masunzu, to flee to a forest some 100 km outside Minembwe, South Kivu, a rebel official…

UNITED NATIONS Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network DRC: Tens of thousands desperate for food, blankets, medicines Tens of thousands of displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are still in desperate need of dry food…

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived today in Nigeria after a two-day visit to the Sudan, where President Omar Hassan El Basir has agreed on the need for "comprehensive" humanitarian access for relief aid deliveries in the war-ravaged nation. "The…

NAIROBI, 12 July (IRIN) - Tens of thousands of displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are still in desperate need of dry food rations, blankets, warm clothing and medicines, as fighting continues to deny humanitarian agents access…