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AI Index: AFR 51/69/00Introduction More than 5,000 children under the age of 18, both boys and girls and some as young as five, have fought as combatants in Sierra Leone's internal armed conflict. Children have been specifically…

August 2000 INTRODUCTION This is the second of three annual issues of this report prepared by the FAO Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) on the food supply situation and cereal import and food aid requirements for all countries in…

A majority of Congo-Brazzaville's half-million or more internally displaced persons returned to their homes during the first half of 2000, making it one of the few African countries to achieve noticeable progress in reversing a humanitarian emergency during the…

About 200,000 Liberians remained refugees in neighboring countries in late July, and intermittent cycles of violence in the country's remote northern region continued to push additional Liberians from their homes. Liberian government officials claimed that an incursion by armed dissidents in…

Renewed conflict pushed at least 150,000 Sierra Leoneans from their homes during the first half of the year and seriously damaged the country's fragile peace accord. More than 400,000 Sierra Leoneans were refugees and 300,000 to 600,000 persons were internally…

Despite a peace accord agreed to on paper last year, the war in Congo Kinshasa raged on in the first half of 2000 with dire consequences for the civilian population. During the first half of the year, an estimated half-million…

INTRODUCTION This is the second of three annual issues of this report prepared by the FAO Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) on the food supply situation and cereal import and food aid requirements for all countries in sub-Saharan…

U.S. Department of State Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Washington, DC July 12, 2000 As prepared for delivery Mr. Chairman, it is an honor to be here today to testify…

by Roger P. Winter Looking back on 1999, U.S. Committee for Refugees Executive Director Roger Winter observes the disparities in the international community's response to humanitarian emergencies in Kosovo, East Timor, Sierra Leone, and Chechnya, among others. "Ending this tragedy is…

The off-season crop and market gardening harvests are winding down. Production is good, as anticipated, after the high flood levels late last season. Other activities such as fishing are also generating good incomes and a more…