Assessments

(Mission undertaken from 10 to14 August 2000) by Dechassa Lemessa, UN-Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia Introduction and background Jimma Zone is divided in to 13 weredas (hosting a total population of over 2.2 million) with an agro-ecological setting of highlands (15%), midlands (67%) and…

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…

FEWS NET/Somalia This report is a joint publication of FSAU and the USAID Famine Early Warning System (FEWS NET) for Somalia. Detailed field information remains available through the FSAU/FEWS offices. HIGHLIGHTS - Following the inter-agency drought assessment carried out in Somaliland in…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A field assessment mission comprised of representatives from UNICEF, the Ministry of Local Government (MoLG), the Eritrean Relief and Refugee Commission (ERREC) and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) departed Asmara on the 16th of…

Sudan's 17-year civil war dragged on during the first half of 2000 with new refugee flows to neighboring countries, bombings of civilian targets and humanitarian aid projects by government planes, slave raids by pro government militia, collapse of a…

Angola's government continued to pursue complete military victory over rebel forces during the first half of the year, while growing numbers of local nongovernmental leaders pressed for a negotiated settlement to the latest round of conflict in the country's on-again…

Uganda's massive internally displaced population numbering 450,000 or more when the year began - grew larger during the first six months of 2000 as insurgent attacks continued to push families from their homes in northern and southwestern regions of…

Hundreds of thousands of Eritreans fled their homes during May and early June when Ethiopia launched a military offensive that defeated Eritrean troops and forced an apparent end to a bloody two-year border war between the two countries. The two…

Somalia's chaotic civil war and sense of pervasive lawlessness moved into its twelfth year in early 2000. During the first half of the year, thousands of newly displaced Somalis descended on the capital, Mogadishu; gunfights in Mogadishu and at other…

Peace negotiations accelerated in Burundi under the aggressive mediation efforts of former South African president Nelson Mandela during the first half of the year, but combatants were unable to meet Mandela's goal of achieving a peace agreement by July…