Reports

World Vision's entire relief operations in southern Sudan are threatened due to a shortage of cargo space on aircraft ferrying in supplies. The situation is so acute that World Vision is urgently investigating the possibility of leasing its own…

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Friday that efforts by his special envoy to Angola to avert renewed civil war were going well. Annan, who was beginning a five-day visit to Portugal, said he expected the Security Council to renew…

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) Une rebellion anti-Kabila dans l'est du pays Une rebellion a ete…

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 KENYA-TANZANIA: Car bombs rock capitals Over 80 people are feared dead and more than 1,000 wounded in…

World Vision in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has begun distributing food rations among 18,000 Angolan refugees who have fled their homeland because of renewed warfare in their home provinces. These are some of an estimated 30,000 refugees to arrive…

WFP Logistics Highlights Rain Disrupts Operations - Heavy rain continues to affect air operations, delaying the positioning of teams on the ground, and reducing airdrops because of poor visibility. Lokichokio Flight Assistance Team - The Government of Belgium has formalized an…

Conflict in Angola has forced tens of thousands of Angolans to flee their homes, many for the second or third time in six years, and the number of displaced people is growing almost daily, the UN World Food Programme…

LUANDA, Aug 7 (Reuters) - The United Nations on Friday named Issa Dialo of Guinea as its new special envoy in Angola, replacing veteran mediator Alioune Blondin Beye, who died in a plane crash in June. UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi,…

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 agencies,…

SG/SM/6668 AFR/89 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General was outraged and appalled to hear of today's bomb explosions in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam, which have resulted in a heavy toll of dead and wounded. He…