Liberia
Security In the meantime access to the rest of the country remains very difficult. On Tuesday morning 19 August 2003, a joint UN security mission left for Bo Waterside on the border between Sierra Leone and Liberia, to assess the…
Burundi
HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITIES 1. Jesuit Refugee Service robbed/threatened at gunpoint On Sunday evening during mass (6:30pm) 8 JRS expatriates were held at gunpoint in their Bujumbura residence (Gatoke neighbourhood) by six men (including a driver and look-out person) aged 20-40 years, and wielding…
Rwanda
Summary The joint Ministry of Agriculture (MINAGRI)/FAO/WFP/FEWSNET crop and food assessment mission (CFAM) of June 2003 had established that crop production at the national level had been generally satisfactory, with a main exception: Bugesera Region in Kigali…
Côte d'Ivoire
by Tope Akinwande in Abidjan Since conflict erupted in Côte d'Ivoire in September 2002, the spotlight has been on the plight of victims in armed opposition-held territories. Yet thousands of people fled to the country's largest city of Abidjan, and they…
Liberia
Monrovia, 18 August 2003 - With the first humanitarian supply ship safely docked at the port of Monrovia, WFP is already delivering vital food aid to thousands of people in the war-ravaged Liberian capital. To date, the Agency has handed…
Liberia
Security The Port of Monrovia was handed over to the ECOMIL forces on Thursday, 14 August 2003. The LURD forces withdrew 4 kilometres up to St. Paul's bridge. Though they are expected to move up to Po River. The process…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
IP/03/1162 Brussels, 14 August 2003 - The European Commission has approved a €4 million humanitarian aid package to support food and nutrition programmes for vulnerable groups affected by the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The funds will…
Niger
Executive Summary With a population of 10.8 million inhabitants in 2000, Niger is among the least developed and low-income, food-deficit countries. It is ranked 172nd out of 173 countries on the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Index for 2002.…
Mauritania + 10 more
EL NIÑO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO) DIAGNOSTIC DISCUSSION Current atmospheric and oceanic conditions in the tropical Pacific are near average and do not support the development of either La Niña or El Niño in the next few months. Equatorial…
Mauritania
Ce Rapport couvre la période du 30 juin au 28 juillet 2003 Sommaire: L'hivernage a démarré plus tôt qu'en 2002 mais dans une période relativement proche de celle de la moyenne 90-99, divisant le pays en deux zones: Dans le sud-est du…
