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A United Nations official has welcomed permission by Sudan for four more U-N transport planes to fly relief supplies for thousands of starving people in the south of the country. The government in Khartoum says it will co-operate in transporting…

Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme This report includes: A) Sudan B) Afghanistan C) Sierra Leone D) East and Central Africa: Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo. From Manuel Aranda da Silva, Chief, Technical Support Service.…

(USAID administrator is keynote speaker at conference) (2940) WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will be providing 6,500 metric tons of food aid, valued at $9.2 million, to help avert serious food shortages in southern Sudan, says USAID…

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 [The weekly roundup is based on IRIN daily updates and other relevant information from UN agencies,…

Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme This report includes: A) Sudan B) Afghanistan C) Sierra Leone D) East and Central Africa: Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo. From Manuel Aranda da Silva, Chief, Technical Support Service.…

ROME The UN World Food Programme issued an appeal to the international donor community today to fund urgently needed emergency airdrops of food aid to victims of war and drought in southern Sudan. The airdrops will be part of a…

Rwanda's former prime minister Jean Kambanda has been convicted on six counts of genocide and related crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal in Tanzania He had pleaded guilty. Kambanda was interim prime minister during the 1994 genocide in which between five-…

Background Sudan context Sudan is Africa's largest country, about 10 times the size of the UK. Twenty-seven million people live in this vast area, which has very poor infrastructure making travel and transport to remote rural communities extremely difficult.…

REG. NO. 98/0041 Period covered: 4-26 April - No. 12 The information contained in this report was provided by the Office of the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Operational Activities in Burundi, UN Agencies, International Organisations and NGOs GENERAL GOB announces reform plans President Buyoya…

NATIONS UNIES Bureau de 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 IRIN-CEA: Bulletin hebdomadaire no 17-98 d'information sur l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est (du vendredi…