Reports

JOHANNESBURG, 30 December (IRIN) - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Wednesday appealed to Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and the opposition UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi for help in reaching a UN-chartered aircraft which crash landed near the central highlands…

By Paul Richardson JOHANNESBURG, Dec 30 (Reuters) - A senior Angolan government official called on the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday to help disarm the rebel UNITA movement to bring an end to renewed civil war in the country. Speaking…

ROME - An escalation in the causes of food crises in 1998 has sounded the alarm for global food security in the coming year, the head of the United Nations World Food Programme said today. Catherine Bertini, Executive Director of WFP,…

The information contained in this report was provided by the United Nations Humanitarian Assistance Coordination Unit in Luanda (UCAH) GENERAL SITUATION Huambo City was shelled at 13:15 on 30 December The ongoing warfare is provoking general instability and growing tension throughout Angola. This…

KHARTOUM, Dec 30 (Reuters) - The Sudanese government has rejected a call by opposition leaders for a national conference to draft a constitution and system of government representing all Sudanese, an official newspaper reported on Wednesday. Al-Anbaa quoted a presidential…

UNITED NATIONS Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for Central and Eastern Africa Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE: Aid arrives in Brazzville as bodies collected Humanitarian assistance is starting to arrive in strife-torn Brazzaville, aid…

By Lara Pawson LUANDA, Dec 29 (Reuters) - A senior United Nations official said on Tuesday the wreckage of a plane which crashed in Angola's central highlands on Saturday had been found and there were indications of survivors. ''Some images…

JOHANNESBURG (Dec. 29) XINHUA - The wreck of a United Nations chartered aircraft that crashed in eastern Angola Saturday had been seen and appeared to be reasonably intact, the South African embassy in Luanda said Tuesday. U.N. officials flew over…

LUANDA, Dec 28 (Reuters) - The United Nations Observer Mission in Angola (MONUA) said on Monday that Morse code signals had been picked up by U.N. communications staff near the site of a plane crash in the central highlands. It…

The United Nations is trying to organise a ceasefire in Angola so it can search for a crashed plane with U.N. workers onboard. Australian Patrick Luckman from Melbourne is believed to one of 14 people aboard the Hercules transport which…