Reports

Humanitarian Update: UN Launch a Donor Alert in Geneva on 20 November 1998, in connection with the looming food crisis in southern and central Somalia. The UN Agencies working in Somalia have appealed for USD 18 million for immediate funding…

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 GREAT LAKES: Arms inquiry leader warns of potential catastrophe The danger of a repeated regional catastrophe on the…

17-23 November 1998 Security Following recent reports of looting of food, non-food items and ration cards from households in Wau, an Emergency Response team, comprised of representatives from WFP, UNHCU and NGOs, are discussing measures to better protect displaced persons in the…

NATIONS UNIES Bureau de la coordination des affaires humanitaires IRIN - Afrique Centrale et de l'Est Tel: +254 2 622 147 Fax: +254 2 622 129 e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org GRANDS LACS L'enquête sur les armes met en garde contre une éventuelle catastrophe Le risque d'une nouvelle…

NATIONS UNIES Bureau de la coordination des Affaires Humanitaires / IRIN Afrique Centrale et de l'Est Tel: +254 2 622 147 Fax: +254 2 622 129 e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org NAIROBI, 24 novembre 1998 (IRIN) - Un rapport de l'ONU a indiqué que les rebelles…

KHARTOUM, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Sudan asked the United Nations to stop the United States and other countries from "obstructing" the peace process with southern rebels, the official Sudan News Agency reported on Tuesday. President Omar Hassan al-Bashir made the request…

NAIROBI, 24 November (IRIN) - Humanitarian sources in Khartoum told IRIN today that a displaced persons' squatter area in the Carton Kassala part of Khartoum North was being demolished by the authorities, affecting thousands of people. The latest demolitions highlight…

Jerome Hule, PANA Correspondent NEW YORK, (PANA) - A UN commission that investigated illegal arms flows to Rwanda since the 1994 genocide has warned that the whole Great Lakes region was ''rapidly heading towards a catastrophe of inculculable consequences'' requiring…

Expressing extreme concern about the continuing deterioration of the overall situation in Angola, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says the international community should remain engaged and the UN mission in the country should stay on, at least briefly, to…

Press Release L/2903 ARUSHA, 23 November (ICTR) -- The Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Agwu Ukiwe Okali, on 18 November visited the United Nations Detention Facilities in Arusha, where suspects and accused persons in the Tribunal's…