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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 SOUDAN Le gouvernement accepte le cessez-le-feu Le gouvernement soudanais a annonce un cessez-le-feu de trois mois dans…

The United Nations High Commission for Human Rights (UNHCR) on Friday announced that some of its operations to help repatriate Angolan refugees have been shut down because of renewed fighting in that country. There are 22,000 new refugees from Angola who…

General Arusha talks. On June 21, the first round of the long-awaited talks aimed at resolving the Burundian crisis was concluded at Arusha. Seventeen parties to the conflict put their names to a joint declaration calling on the armed parties to…

Access and the Cease-fire - WFP welcomes the announcement of a temporary cease-fire which will uphold the delivery of food to the famine stricken population in Southern Sudan. An improved security environment will allow aid agencies to access the…

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 SUDAN: Government agrees ceasefire The Sudanese government has announced a three-month ceasefire in southern Sudan to help…

PRESS RELEASE Brussels, 17 July 1998 ICG: On the eve of a new round of regional peace talks in Arusha on the future of Burundi, the International Crisis Group (ICG) today releases a report assessing the prospects for success. The report,…

This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations. ANGOLAN REFUGEES IN THE D.R.C. 22,000 refugees from fighting in Angola have arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo,…

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 SOUDAN Khartoum et la SPLA annoncent un cessez-le-feu dans le Bahr el-Ghazal Le gouvernement soudanais et…

(US welcomes three-month humanitarian cease-fire) (470) Washington -- "We welcome the announcement by both the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement and the Government of Sudan to a three-month humanitarian cease-fire which will permit relief agencies to operate more freely in Bahr el…

UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy leaves for Sudan tomorrow. She will go to Khartoum to meet with Government officials and then visit destinations in the south which are under the control of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM). Ms. Bellamy…