Reports

This report includes: A) Colombia earthquake B) Sierra Leone C) East and Central Africa: Burundi, Tanzania, DR Congo and Congo/Brazzaville D) Sudan E) Iraq F) Afghanistan G) CIS: Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia). From Manuel Aranda da Silva, Chief, Technical Support…

* News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty International * News Service:020/99 - AI Index: AFR 25/02/99 - 29 January 1999 "I was picked up at night, thrown into prison, not allowed time to pack. I asked what…

NATIONS UNIES Bureau pour la Coordination des Affaires Humanitaires / IRIN pour l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est Tel: +254 2 622 147 Fax: +254 2 622 129 e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org IRIN-CEA: Bulletin quotidien No. 598 d'information sur l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est (vendredi 29…

Ghion Hagos, PANA Correspondent ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (PANA) President Daniel arap Moi of Kenya arrived in Addis Ababa Thursday, as part of his latest efforts to end the nine-month old border dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea. He will return to Nairobi…

Public Information Notice (PIN) No. 99/5 On January 8, 1999, the Executive Board concluded the Article IV consultation with Burundi1. Background Economic and financial developments in Burundi during 1997-98 took place in an environment of a steadily improving security situation and steps taken…

Mildred Mulenga, PANA Correspondent LUSAKA, Zambia (PANA) - The Angolan government has threatened military action against Zambia, Uganda, Rwanda, Togo and Burkina Faso for allegedly supporting UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi. A press statement released by Zambia's foreign affairs ministry late Wednesday…

MOGADISHU, Jan 28 (Reuters) - At least 31 people were killed and nearly 45 wounded in inter-clan fighting in the Middle Shabelle region of central Somalia on Wednesday, local elders said on Thursday. Fighters from the Eli-Omar sub-clan attacked rivals from…

JOHANNESBURG, 28 January (IRIN) - The Angolan rebel movement UNITA has seized the strategic northern town of M'banza Congo 500 km north of the capital Luanda after several days of intense fighting, according to news reports on Thursday. Local news…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (PANA) - Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi left Addis Ababa Thursday after a six-hour working visit during which he informed the Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi about Eritrea's willingness to negotiate an end to the border…

LUSAKA, Zambia (PANA) - The Inter African Network for Human Rights and Development (Afronet) Thursday urged the Zambian government not to take Angola's latest threat of military action lightly. In a statement issued in Lusaka, the human rights organisation said it…