Reports

Dateline ACT Sudan No 3/98 Trucks carrying 79 metric tons (MT) of food and 20 MT tons of seeds have started arriving Rumbek county, southern Bahr al Ghazal, after a difficult overland trip. The food included sorghum, beans, oil and salt.…

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 424 d'information sur l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est (mardi 26…

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 IRIN Update No. 424 for Central and Eastern Africa DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Six ministers arrested or…

Musengwa Kayaya, PANA Correspondent LUSAKA, Zambia (PANA) - Burundi has requested the return of the food seed reserves it had entrusted for storage at the Lusaka-based Southern African Development Community (Sadc) seed bank. The project advisor at the Sadc genetic resources centre,…

An escalation of civil strife in the Sudan since January has aggravated an already precarious food situation following the 1997 drought-reduced harvest, according to a recently released Special Alert. Severe malnutrition and starvation-related deaths have been reported in the hardest-hit…

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 423 d'information sur l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est (samedi 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 IRIN Update No. 423 for Central and Eastern Africa (Saturday-Monday 23-25 May 1998) UGANDA: DRC warns Kampala…

Ref: OCHAGVA - 98/0207. 1. Several days of uninterrupted torrential rains in early May have submerged hundreds of homes, washed away streets and destroyed bridges, cutting off several suburbs in Dar-es-Salaam. A collapsed bridge north of the…

The UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) has approved a $12 million pilot project for Uganda to support local development initiatives in the districts of Mukono, Jinga, Kabale and Arua. UNCDF Executive Secretary Poul Grosen said that the project, designed…

THE HUMANITARIAN UPDATE Airdrops phased out WFP says it phased out its airdrop operations in formerly flood-affected areas of South Somalia during the second half of April. Various assessments had shown a reduced need for food aid. Off season crop production…