Reports

JOHANNESBURG, 22 November (IRIN) - Heavy rains and strong winds have lashed southern Mozambique this week resulting in nine deaths and raising fears of a repeat of the catastrophic floods that devastated the country earlier this year. News reports said…

NAIROBI, 22 November (IRIN) - Somalia's newly appointed Prime Minister Ali Khalif Galeyr is in Nairobi for the first official meeting with Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi, before travelling on to Uganda. Since attempting to set up a national…

SUDAN: Government cancels diplomats visas The Sudanese government said it had barred the US charge d'affaires from entering the country in protest at a visit by US Assistant Secretary of State of African Affairs Susan Rice to southern Sudan. Foreign Minister…

News Release No: 2001/128/AFR WASHINGTON, November 22, 2000--The World Bank today approved a credit of US$90 million to assist the government of Eritrea in the process of long-term reconstruction and economic recovery. The Emergency Reconstruction Program will finance a set of…

As of 15 November, the Ministry of Health of Somalia has reported a total of 272 cases, including 14 deaths in Boroma, Awdal region, Somaliland since the start of the outbreak on 14 October 2000. Samples have tested positive…

Press Release SC/6956 Council Briefed by Presidents and Chief Prosecutor of Two Organs The Security Council met today to take up the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. As it did so, it was briefed by…

NAIROBI, 21 November (IRIN) - Since the signing of a cooperation agreement by all the major Oromo opposition groups, the main armed party, the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) has focused a military and diplomatic initiative on the issue of…

SUDAN: 18 reported dead in Yei bombing Sudanese government planes have again bombed the Western Equatoria market town of Yei, southern Sudan, on Monday afternoon, according to humanitarian and media reports. Norwegian Peoples Aid (NPA), an aid organisation working in…

The Clinton administration has built a "forward-looking, informed, and enduring relationship" between the United States and Africa, but the next administration, Congress, and the small but growing constituency in the United States that cares about Africa must "build on this…

The Disaster An outbreak of Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever was confirmed by the Uganda Health Ministry on Saturday 14th October 2000 in Gulu district in northern Uganda. By 14th November 2000, 329 persons had been reported infected with the disease, out…