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The United Nations' refugee agency said on Monday that Hutu refugees were streaming into the east African nation of Tanzania as they flee a civil war in neighbouring Burundi. Anthony Moga, emergency co-ordinator at the United Nations High Commissioner for…

News Release For Immediate Release Contact: Michael Holt, 310-826-7800 Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State, will be at Kenyatta Hospital in Nairobi tomorrow afternoon, and has been asked to participate in a presentation of $60,000 worth of surgical equipment to the hospital.…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) KENYA/TANZANIA U.S. Embassy Bombing Note: This is the last bulletin on the bombings. Background: On August 7, 1998, in a violent terrorist attack, the U.S. Embassies in…

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 RWANDA: 14 killed in "revenge" attack Fourteen people were murdered yesterday (Sunday) night at Ruhango trading centre, in…

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) La rebellion gagne du terrain Les rebelles congolais ont pris…

The former Prefect of Butare in Rwanda on Monday pleaded not guilty to all six charges brought against him by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania. Colonel Alphonse Nteziryayo, who was also a former Commanding Officer of…

L'ancien prefet de Butare (sud du Rwanda), le colonel Alphonse Nteziryayo, accuse de genocide et de crimes contre l'humanite, a plaide non coupable lundi devant le Tribunal penal international pour le Rwanda (TPIR). Alphonse Nteziryayo, prefet de…

Poor rains mean most farmers in Tonj County, Southern Sudan, will run out of food again early in 1999, an agricultural expert has warned. Henry Muganga, World Vision's lead agronomist in the country, says that few farmers will be able…

REG. NO. 98/0083 Period covered: 10-16 August 1998, No. 24 The information contained in this report was provided by the Office of the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Operational Activities in Burundi, UN Agencies, International Organisations and NGOs GENERAL Donor meeting on Burundi to…

Press Release Nairobi - The United Nations World Food Programme today announced that it will extend its emergency operation for Kenya flood victims until the end of September this year. In December 1997, WFP mounted an emergency flood operation, costing an…