Reports

PROJECT PURPOSE: To provide water, sanitation, rehabilitation, and resettlement assistance to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and former refugees in seven provinces of Burundi: Muyinga, Karuzi, Kirundo, Makamba, Bururi, Bubanza, and Bujumbura. PROJECT BENEFICIARIES: Approximately 260,000 IDPs and several thousand returnees in…

KHARTOUM, Oct 1 (Reuters) - A Sudanese army officer has said his forces had inflicted heavy casualties on rebels fighting to gain control of a key southern town, Sudanese state television reported late on Wednesday. Major General Adam Hamid, commander…

NAIROBI, Oct 1 (Reuters) - The Sudan government on Thursday imposed a blanket ban on aid flights to the south of the country, according to the U.N.'s Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS). The government gave no reason for the decision and…

Several dozen new casualties are being admitted every week to the ICRC's surgical hospital in Lokichokio, northern Kenya. Last week, patients suffering from gunshot wounds were brought to the facility from 21 locations in southern Sudan. So far this…

Update Logistics Barge Operations : The Sobat barge convoy left Kosti on 29 September. The barge convoy will deliver 1,244 mt of food for 108,312 beneficiaries in Upper Nile State. Air Operations : Regular supplies of Jet A1 are expected to resume…

A border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea has resulted in the displacement of an estimated 150,000 Ethiopians and 100,000 Eritreans since early May. Prior to the dispute, the two countries had been on friendly diplomatic terms. A country of some…

Renewed clashes in Angola during recent months and a stalemate in the peace process once again have frustrated the hopes of 1.1 million uprooted Angolans wishing to return after years of displacement. The World Food Program registered more than 70,000 new…

TPIR / Affaire Butare Arusha, 30 septembre 1998 (FH) Le débat sur un procès collectif pour génocide et crimes contre l'humanité commis en préfecture de Butare (sud du Rwanda) a été reporté sine die, mercredi, par le Tribunal pénal international…

Somalia The Somalia Food Security Assessment Unit conducted its 1998 gu (main season) harvest assessment in August, and it projects drastic declines in gu cereal production in all agricultural areas (figure 2). The unit’s final estimate of…

Kenya Despite below-average rainfall in early August in much of western Kenya, prospects for a good long-rains maize harvest remain favorable in most major maize-producing areas of Rift Valley and Western Provinces. Crops were sustained by soil moisture reserves from above-average…