Reports

EDITORIAL Lower than normal rainfall is placing increasing strain on the resources of pastoralists and has devastated a large proportion of the main sorghum crop production. This month's editorial draws attention to the mid and longer- term…

A United Nations fact-finding mission has begun work in Kenya to determine the scale of the proliferation of small arms in that country, a UN spokesman said today in New York. The mission is an initial effort to respond to…

UGANDA: Northern IDPs trapped by fear of rebel attacks The World Food Programme (WFP) estimates there are currently 480,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in 'protected villages' or displaced people's camps in northern Uganda, almost all of them from the Acholi…

NAIROBI, 23 July (IRIN) - The Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC) on Friday said it was "gravely concerned" that Soekor, South Africa's oil parastatal, was in the advanced stages of negotiating expansion activities in Sudan. The SACBC said it…

NEWS: UNITED NATIONS: Launch of global AIDS fund a key issue at G8 Summit The creation of a global fund to fight AIDS and other infectious diseases will be the key subject of an address by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to…

By Jane Nandawula KAMPALA. New Members of Parliament hailing from North Eastern Uganda where World Vision is working with armed communities for Peace and Reconciliation have pledged support to the conciliatory activities. POKATUSA, funded by World Vision UK and the Department…

NAIROBI, 17 July (IRIN) - Stephen Lewis, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's special envoy on AIDS in Africa, on Monday met President Daniel arap Moi in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, to address Annan's proposed Global AIDS and Health Fund and…

NEWS SOUTH AFRICA: Trials show antiretroviral therapy can benefit the poor According to a 'Sunday Independent' report, clinical trials conducted in Johannesburg and Cape Town have shown that despite poverty and scarce clinical resources, antiretrovirals can be used successfully by poor people.…

TANZANIA: HIV/AIDS could wipe out economic, social gains Poverty-reduction measures have not yet succeeded in reaching the rural poor to improve their quality of life, while the HIV/AIDS pandemic posed such a threat that it could reverse all the economic and…

OVERVIEW Predictions of a poor rain-fed harvest in four regions in Southern Somalia have prompted an intensification of surveillance activities in those regions. In Gedo and in some parts of Bay and Bakool, levels of malnutrition have…