Reports

HIGHLIGHTS Ethiopia is expecting a record meher harvest - over 20 percent increase in yield as compared with the previous years harvest - reducing food aid requirements in 1997. Local purchases and export of surplus production in 1997 likely to be…

LUANDA, Angola (PANA) - The special envoy of U.S. President Bill Clinton charged with monitoring the Angolan peace process, Paul Hare, has left Luanda at the end of a two-week mission in Angola. Speaking shortly before he left Angolan capital on…

By Buchizya Mseteka NAIROBI, Dec 1 (Reuter) - Burundi's main Hutu rebel group said on Sunday its forces were engaging army positions in five main regions of the central African nation and fierce fighting was sending thousands of refugees streaming…

By Matthew Bigg KIGALI, Dec 1 (Reuter) - The Canadian-led multinational force for eastern Zaire, so far unable to deliver any aid to refugees in Zaire itself, has flown its first consignment of aid to Tanzania, a spokesman said on…

Household Food Security WFP food activities for November: Northern Bahr el Ghazal -Deliveries were ongoing to Agaigai and Madhol, and are planned for Ajiep. These distributions are a response to a nutrition survey earlier in the year,…

Special Representative upbeat on deadline compliance The United Nations Secretary General's Special Representative to Angola, Alioune Blondin Beye, has hailed progress in the peace process made in the last month. This appears to have removed the immediate threat of sanctions…

Judith Matloff, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor RUHENGERI, RWANDA -- Basahili Ngiruswonsanga says he is innocent of committing genocide in 1994. But he is scared to leave his newly reclaimed house in case his neighbors believe otherwise. Like 500,000…

ICRC NEWS 37 Before some of the Rwandan refugees in Zaire returned home, among them were more than 19,800 unaccompanied children who had been identified but had not yet been able to rejoin one of their parents. Today, it is…

Flight of Refugees From Zaire: Roots of the Problem This month the world's largest concentration of refugees, located in the Lake Kivu region of Zaire, unexpectedly dispersed in pursuit of safety and assistance in the face of an outbreak of…