Somalia
SOMALIA : Present in Mogadiscio since 1992, Action contre la Faim manages nutritional & water/sanitation programs as well as water born diseases (cholera prevention) preparedness. Unfortunately, due to access difficulties to the beneficiaries of our programs and to high insecurity,…
Eritrea + 1 more
Press Release AFR/127 19990115 The following statement was issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General is concerned at reports of heightened tension between Eritrea and Ethiopia. In support of the diplomatic efforts of the Organization…
Sudan
1. Chronology December 17, 1998: Sudan's politica parties remain opposed to legislation under which multi-party politics is to be allowed next year, saying it will not bring about genuine democracy, press reports said. An official of the Umma Party, which…
Burundi + 3 more
(New York, January 15, 1999) - Human Rights Watch today called upon the African government ministers meeting in Lusaka today to urge full investigations into human rights abuses in the Congo war. Foreign militaries participating on both sides of…
Angola
The UN World Food Programme yesterday resumed relief flights to several towns in Angola where food and other supplies have dwindled to desperately low levels, putting large numbers of war-affected people at risk of starvation. WFP flights were suspended 11…
Kenya + 1 more
The United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Humanitarian Affairs for the Sudan is currently on a week-long mission to the Sudan and Kenya to review the status of the humanitarian cease- fire in the Bar-El Ghazal region of southern…
Somalia
Hargeisa Office Northwest Zone Somalia General situation Political Developments: A 13-member mission from the UN, Arab League, Organisation of African Unity (OAU), Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), European Union (EU) and diplomats from Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Italy visited the zone during the…
Angola
JOHANNESBURG, 14 January (IRIN) - The opposition UNITA movement says it has located the site of a second UN plane crash and will take a UN team to the area. According to UN spokesman Fred Eckhard, the pledge was…
Angola
JOHANNESBURG, 14 January (IRIN) The situation in the Angolan city of Malanje is continuing to deteriorate rapidly with unrelenting shelling of the city entering its second week, according to the UN Humanitarian Assistance Coordination Unit (UCAH) in Luanda. In a report…
Somalia
Mogadishu (dpa) - A famine and drought in the central and southern regions of Somalia may be killing 100 persons a week, and cholera and other diseases have broken out, according to local leaders contacted by radio Thursday from…
