Reports

17-18 September 1998 Sudan De-briefing of 18 September 1998 All Permanent Representations in Rome were invited to WFP Headquarters today to attend a de-briefing on Sudan, chaired by the Assistant Executive Director, Mr. Jean-Jacques Graisse. The meeting follows Mr. Graisse's return…

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 18 (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Friday that an Angolan employee of the Michigan-based Dyna Corp was killed in an ambush of a U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) convoy east of Luanda, the capital. Three…

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 [The weekly roundup is based on IRIN daily updates and other relevant information from UN…

NATIONS UNIES Bureau pour la Coordination des Affaires Humanitaires / IRIN pour l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est Tel: +254 2 622 147 Fax: +254 2 622 129 e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org REPUBLIQUE DEMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO (RDC) Le conflit "menace des millions de personnes" Les combats se sont…

DAR ES SALAAM, Sept 18 (Reuters) A Japanese aid worker in Tanzania has been shot dead outside her home in the capital in an apparent robbery attempt, the Japanese embassy said on Friday. The 35-year-old woman died after being shot in…

Farmer Yahia Mohamed, 40, was searching through the ruins of his mud-walled house in Marga, a Nile village in Sudan's flood-ravaged Northern state. He was never a wealthy man, he explained, but with his 20 sheep and plot of…

By Anna Richardson LUANDA, Sept 17 (Reuters) - At least four U.N. workers were wounded and one was missing after an aid convoy came under fire in Angola, U.N. officials said on Thursday. "We have sent a helicopter to the scene…

An ICRC team comprising a water and sanitation expert, a nurse and a relief delegate is currently conducting a survey in the Kassala region to assess the most urgent needs of victims of the floods in this part of…

La Chambre spécialisée du Tribunal de première instance de Ruhengeri (nord du Rwanda) a condamné à mort mercredi deux anciens responsables locaux, Tassien lyamuremye et Evariste Ngoroye, reconnus coupables de génocide et de crimes contre l'humanité. Les deux hommes sont…

ICRC News 98/37 On 7 September a group of 12 enthusiastic Sudanese students from all parts of southern Sudan gathered at the ICRC Lopiding Hospital classroom in Lokichokio in northern Kenya to begin a six-month training course for nursing aides.…