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"Extremely concerned" about the plight of 14 United Nations peacekeepers remaining in two UNITA strongholds, in Angola United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has strongly urged Dr. Jonas Savimbi and the UNITA leadership to facilitate the withdrawal of the peacekeepers from…

By Jean Baptiste Kayigamba KIGALI, Dec 4 (Reuters) - More than 250 Hutu rebels were killed by the Rwandan army in northwest Rwanda during a two-week operation which began in mid-November, military sources told Reuters on Friday. The Rwandan army moved…

UNITED NATIONS Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for Southern Africa Tel: +2711 880 4633 Fax: +2711 880 1421 e-mail: irin-sa@irin.org.za ANGOLA: : UN observer mission should stay Amid new concerns for the safety of 13 members of the United Nations…

ADDIS ABABA, Dec 4 (Reuters) - U.S. envoy Anthony Lake arrived in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Friday to continue his attempts to resolve a seven-month border dispute Ethiopia and Eritrea. This visit is the third to the Horn…

Latest News from the U.S. Committee for Refugees December 4, 1998 http://www.refugees.org http://www.refugees.org/news/crisis/sudan.htm FOOD AID REACHED 1.5 MILLION IN OCTOBER Some 17,283 mt of relief food was provided to about 1.5 million beneficiaries in Sudan in October, mostly in famine-stricken Bahr al-Ghazal, according to…

JOHANNESBURG, 3 December (IRIN) - Western diplomats in the Angolan capital, Luanda, said on Thursday that they were growing increasingly concerned for a group of 13 members of the UN Observer Mission in Angola (MONUA) in territory held by…

By Alfred Taban KHARTOUM, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The south Sudan town of Wau, where dozens of famine victims perished daily in July, has been nursed through its crisis and conditions are now dramatically improved, relief workers said on Thursday. "Wau…

The Security Council, Reaffirming its resolutions 696 (1991) of 30 May 1991 and all subsequent relevant resolutions, in particular resolutions 864 (1993) of 15 September 1993, 1127 (1997) of 28 August 1997 and 1173 (1998) of 12 June 1998, Reaffirming also…

Reintegrating the hundreds of thousands of expatriates who streamed back to Rwanda in 1996 and 1997 has posed a formidable challenge for that country's Government of National Unity. To help communities absorb the returning refugees while promoting peace and mutual…

By Evelyn Leopold UNITED NATIONS, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council intends on Thursday to extend peacekeeping operations in Angola for another three months in an effort to prevent a return to war in the southwest African nation. The…