Reports

NATIONS UNIES Bureau pour la Coordination des Affaires Humanitaires / IRIN pour l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est Tél: +254 2 622 147 Fax: +254 2 622 129 e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE: Arrivée des secours et collecte des cadavres Les secours humanitaires commencent à arriver à Brazzaville…

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 29 (Reuters) - The United Nations released the names on Tuesday of the 14 people, 13 men and a Zambian woman police officer, in a U.N. transport plane that crashed in Angola's central highland over the…

THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME AND THE FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Addis Ababa - A joint report produced by the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation and the World Food Programme predicts near-record crop yields in Ethiopia…

Latest News from the U.S. Committee for Refugees <http://www.refugees.org> <http://www.refugees.org/news/crisis/sudan.htm> PREDICTIONS DIRE FOR 1999 A new Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS) report predicts that famine in southern Sudan will continue next year. The report estimates that the World Food Program will need to feed 2…

The following statement was issued on Saturday, 26 December, by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General has learned with great sadness of the reported crash on Saturday, 26 December at approximately 12 noon local time, of United Nations…

ADDIS ABABA, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Some 10,000 Somalis fleeing drought and food shortages in southern Somalia have crossed the border to Ethiopia in the last week, an Ethiopian official said on Monday. The refugees are camped in the Warder and…

by Mary Anne Fitzgerald The chaos in Somalia continues. This month fierce fighting erupted yet again in the port of Kismayu, Baidoa and the fertile Juba Valley. Earlier in the month deteriorating security conditions in Mogadishu contributed to the failure…

JOHANNESBURG, 28 December (IRIN) WFP aid flights carrying food to thousands of displaced people in Angola's central highlands have been suspended until officials get more information on what caused a UN transport plane carrying 14 people to crash near…

LUANDA, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Angola's UNITA rebels said on Monday they had received no request from the United Nations for a ceasefire after a U.N. plane crashed in the central highlands and vowed to continue fighting. The U.N. special…

DISTRIBUTION 1.1 Northern Sector Malakal (Upper Nile): Most vulnerable groups located in town and in-patients at the local hospital were provided with one-month food ration in Malakal town. The price of Sorghum has continued to fall in Malakal due to the…