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For More information contact - Gabrielle Bushman 202-347-3507 <a href=http://www.refugees.org/news/press=5Freleases/1998/072398.htm>http://www.refugees.org/news/press=5Freleases/1998/072398.htm The U.S. Committee for Refugees periodically provides updated statistical information on the famine in Sudan and the international relief response. Information is compiled from U.S. Committee for Refugees staff site visits to…

Members of the Security Council on Thursday welcomed the recent ceasefire reached between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM). The ceasefire was brokered with the assistance of Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD). Speaking on behalf…

(Washington, DC, July 23, 1998) -Human Rights Watch cautions that a three-month ceasefire in southern Sudan may fall apart if the government and the rebels do not take measures necessary to protect human rights. Gross human rights abuses in the…

Thursday, 23 July 1998: UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy said today in Nairobi that if mass starvation of children and women is to be averted in the southern Sudan, the ceasefire must be adhered to and expanded to ensure…

JOHANNESBURG, 22 July 1998 (IRIN) - Angola's drought-hit southern provinces of Cunene and Cuando Cubango are in need of targeted food assistance, humanitarian agencies have told IRIN. Aid organisations are discussing with the authorities in Cunene the establishment of feeding programmes for…

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 BURUNDI Reouverture des pourparlers de paix a Arusha Les pourparlers de paix inter-burundais ont repris aujoud'hui (mardi) a…

Burundi's warring parties made slow progress on Wednesday in the second day of new peace talks aimed at resolving the country's bitter ethnic conflict. The closed-door talks in the north Tanzanian town of Arusha were adjourned almost immediately after they…

1. Airdrops ex-El Obeid - (Southern Sector) - A total of 7.1 Mt. of food commodities was delivered ex-El Obeid into Nyamlel - Bahr El Ghazal - on 20 July. An additional 34.2 Mt. was delivered to Baar…

Les pourparlers inter-burundais ont ete a nouveau ajournes mercredi, jusqu'a jeudi matin, a-t-on constate sur place a Arusha. Comme mardi, les dix sept delegations presentes n'ont pas pu s'entendre sur les regles de procedure devant regir les pourparlers et la facon…

Le deuxieme round des pourparlers inter-burundais a commence mardi a Arusha. Les dix sept delegations presentes ont tenu mardi matin une seance a huis clos au cours de laquelle elles ont echange des vues sur l'ordre du jour, la…