Reports

Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme This report includes: A) Afghanistan B) Sudan C) East Africa: Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda D) Liberia E) Ethiopia F) Angola. From Manuel Aranda da Silva, Chief, Technical Support Service. Available on the Internet…

CHURCH WORLD SERVICE EMERGENCY RESPONSE OFFICE 34 Denominations & Communions Working Together to Meet Human Needs CWS/ACT APPEAL: SUDAN REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT (#976309) (In support of ACT Appeal #AFUG81 for $361,000) SITUATION: Large numbers of refugees have fled Sudan during the last 15 years…

This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata and OAU Secretary General Salim Ahmed Salim this morning opened the…

UNICEF Executive Director visits Somalia UNICEF Executive Director, Carol Bellamy, on 19 April, visited Bardera, southern Somalia. Ms Bellamy who was on a six-day visit of the Eastern and Southern Africa region flew into Bardera aboard a cargo transport plane…

WASHINGTON, May 8, 1998 - The World Bank has approved a US$27.6 million credit to Uganda for an El Niño Emergency Road Repair Project which will provide emergency recovery assistance for the repair and rehabilitation of roads and bridges…

Denmark and Sweden have announced substantial contributions to UNHCR operations in Liberia and Angola, where thousands of refugees wish to return after years of exile. There are currently 480,000 Liberian refugees in the region (mainly in Guinea and Cote…

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 : Bulletin quotidien no 411 d'information sur l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est (du jeudi…

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. 411 for Central and Eastern Africa (Thursday 7 May 1998) RWANDA/BURUNDI: Tough time predicted for…

Nairobi -- The World Food Programme announced the start-up of the first additional C-130 aircraft which began airdropping emergency food supplies today to 50,000 hungry southern Sudanese in the towns of Ajak and Akon, in the crisis-hit province of…

REG. NO. 98/0050 The information contained in this report was provided by the United Nations Humanitarian Assistance Coordination Unit in Luanda (UCAH) GENERAL SITUATION Increased armed attacks on the ground continue to contradict the political achievements within the framework of the implementation of…