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Latest Developments The situation is continuing to deteriorate, with many areas facing worsening food security problems. Despite an increase in the delivery of food aid, malnutrition rates are still increasing and hunger-related mortalities are on the rise. Bahr el Ghazal…

Hopes for real peace in Angola look all but lost as the government and the opposition Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) edge closer to civil war. Recent weeks have seen a further escalation in a spate of…

Congressman Tony Hall's press release from his testimony at the House International Relations Committee hearing on Sudan and Uganda, July 29, 1998. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT : Deborah DeYoung, 202/225-1217 Crisis calls for credible, top-level envoy, recent visitors to famine-stricken region agree…

For More information contact Gabrielle Bushman 202-347-3507 President Clinton should make the famine and civil war in Sudan a higher priority in the White House by appointing a special presidential envoy with a carefully defined mandate to help focus U.S. policy…

OCHAGVA 98/0259Period covered: 16 - 22 July 1998 Humanitarian Operations in Angola The information contained in this report was provided by the United Nations Humanitarian Assistance Coordination Unit in Luanda (UCAH) General Situation The overall situation throughout the country is…

Nearly 200 children under five years old have been admitted for therapeutic feeding at the newly opened WV emergency feeding center here. The center at Luonyaker is the fourth that World Vision is now operating in the famine-stricken province…

http://www.wfp.org/OP/Countries/sudan/emop582601.html Project No.: 5826.01 Duration: from: 01-04-98 to: 31-03-99 Number of beneficiaries:2 480 000 Total cost to WFP: 65 812 523 1. BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE FOR PROVIDING ASSISTANCE Fifteen years of civil war, recurrent population displacement and consecutive crop failures in 1995,…

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.non.org RWANDA: Judge accused of "media campaign" against ICTR The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda says it has not…

Burundi's warring parties on Wednesday worked to finish a debate on the root causes of their conflict before the end of a second round of peace talks, a spokesman for talks mediator Julius Nyerere said. Ambroise Niyonsaba, leader of 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 RWANDA Un juge est accuse de faire une "campagne mediatique" contre le TPIR Le Tribunal penal international…