Assessments

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…

Albertien van der Veen, nutritionist, WHO/ORHC1 1. Background The objective of this report is to provide an overview of the food and nutrition situation in Wolayita, the humanitarian response in the area thus far, to outline the existing…

16-18 August 2000, Kisumu, Kenya. SUMMARY There is increased likelihood of near-normal to below-normal rainfall over most of the Greater Horn of Africa subregion for the period September-December 2000. However, over western Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, western Uganda, southern and south-eastern Sudan,…

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…

Albertien van der Veen, nutritionist, WHO/ORHC1 1. Background The objective of this report is to provide an overview of the food security and nutrition situation in Konso special woreda and the humanitarian response thus far, outline existing problems…