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UNITED NATIONS, July 24 (Reuters) An Italian U.N. staff member for the World Food Programme was killed in the Burundi capital of Bujumbura when three bandits broke into his home and shot him, the United Nations said on Friday. The…

CHURCH WORLD SERVICE EMERGENCY RESPONSE OFFICE 34 Denominations & Communions Working Together to Meet Human Needs CWS/ACT APPEAL: SUDAN FOOD RELIEF (#976309) (In support of revised ACT Appeals #AFSD81, Sudan-Southern Blue Nile, and AFSD82, Sudan-Bahr el Ghazal, for a total of $6.95…

FAMINE IN THE SUDAN - IRC has received a commitment of $1.5 million from the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance to respond to the current crisis in the Sudan. With the declaration of a cease-fire, food and relief supplies…

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 IRIN-CEA : Bulletin quotidien no 465 d'information sur l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est (jeudi 23…

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 BURUNDI: 2,000-3,000 displaced by fighting The governor of Bujumbura Rural province, Stanislas Ntahobari, said 3,000 people had been…

Up to 100 people were killed and scores wounded in an attack on a village near the remote Angolan diamond-mining town of Cafunfo, witnesses said on Friday. Survivors airlifted to the capital Luanda for treatment told Reuters that the village…

1. Revised Emergency Operation Approved - On 22 July, 1998, the Director-General of FAO and the Executive Director of WFP approved a budget revision to the existing Sudan Emergency Operation 5826.01 "Emergency Food Assistance to War and Drought-Affected Populations in…

Up to 50 people are dying of hunger every day among the thousands of Sudanese who are fleeing rebel-held areas in southern Sudan for Wau, the largest town in the country's famine-hit Bahr al-Ghazal region. The Sudan news agency on…

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 BURUNDI: Minister calls for direct talks with rebels Burundian Peace Process Minister Ambroise Niyonsaba has reportedly called for…

Les délégués burundais présents à Arusha pour des pourparlers de paix se sont entendus jeudi sur l'ordre du jour des négociations, a annoncé le porte-parole du médiateur. Dix-sept délégations émanant du gouvernement, des partis politiques et de la rebellion tentaient…