Rapports

07 - 13 August 2004 A. GENERAL SITUATION Highlights Liberia: One year without Taylor It is one year this week since Nigeria's President Olusugun Obasanjo offered former Liberian President Charles Taylor asylum in Nigeria. The offer was part of an international plan…

Ministry for Foreign Affairs Today the Swedish Government decided to contribute SEK 1.5 million via the EU to the establishment of a police unit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The EU has decided, after a request from the UN…

ONUB/PIO/PR/27/2004 Military and human rights observers have obtained conclusive evidence of summary executions, torture, sexual violence and arbitrary detentions by armed men against innocent civilians since the UN Operation in Burundi (ONUB) was deployed on 1 June. These acts are committed…

KINSHASA, 12 August 2004 - Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Japan's best-known television personality and stage actress, visited the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 6 to 12 August 2004. This was her 22nd field visit as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Accompanied by…

SARKANNEDOU, Liberia, Aug 11 (UNHCR) The plaintive chant rises from a group of women and children putting up an impromptu show for visiting relief workers at the devastated village of Sarkannedou in northern Liberia. "We want peace. We want peace.…

See French version below IP/04/1023 Brussels, 10 August 2004 - Due to the deteriorating human rights situation in Cote d'Ivoire, delays in implementing the Marcoussis agreement as it applies to preparations for elections and obstacles put in the way of an…

Ce rapport ne reflète pas nécessairement la position officielle des Nations Unies. FAITS MAJEURS L'Epidémie de cholera déclarée à Walikale, dans la Province du Nord-Kivu : les analyses menées à Goma (au labo provincial AMIKIVU) ont confirmé l'existence de l'épidémie à…

A Christian Children's Fund (CCF) emergency response team left for Chad on August 1 in an effort to assist refugees, who are fleeing from ethnic violence in neighboring Sudan. The team is conducting an assessment of child protection needs…

02 - 06 August 2004 A. GENERAL SITUATION Highlights WFP starts reduced ration distribution due to food pipeline brake For the last couple of months, WFP have continuously warned of the probability of a food pipeline brake in August, if funding shortfalls in…

SC/8165 Security Council 5018th Meeting (PM) In a presidential statement, read by its President Andrey Denisov (Russian Federation) the Security Council this afternoon welcomed the signing by the President of Côte d'Ivoire, the Prime Minister of the Government of National Reconciliation and…