Reports

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. 397 for Central and Eastern Africa (Thursday 16 April 1998) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO:…

By Corinne Dufka PAN THOU, Sudan, April 14 (Reuters) - International aid agencies said on Tuesday a famine in Sudan was worsening and thousands of people were at risk unless more food was delivered. "We are dealing with a potential disaster and…

The ICRC has maintained round-the-clock contact with Somali elders in Mogadishu who have been endeavouring to secure the release of the 10 people abducted on Wednesday 15 April as their Red Cross aircraft landed in Mogadishu North. The elders, the…

Communication to the press 98/15 Geneva (ICRC) - Eight Red Cross / Red Crescent staff and two pilots were kidnapped this morning in Mogadishu North immediately after their ICRC-chartered aircraft landed at Isley airstrip. They were taken away by armed…

Leaders of the Great Lakes region and Horn of Africa church councils ended their two-day consultative meeting on Sudan with a rallying cry for an end to the bloodletting in Sudan. The meeting which began from 7-8 April in…

(Mission: 31 March to 7 April 1998) By Joachim D. Ahrens, Field Officer, UNDP Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia (EUE) Introduction and Background The backbone of the economy in Somali National Regional State is livestock. While this remote, underdeveloped region covers a vast…

Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, On this day four years ago, Rwanda was in the throes of a systematically planned genocide which in a span of three months claimed the lives of at least half a million…

SACB - Situation on the ground Fortnight up to: 7 April, 1998 Number of people reported killed from end of October, 1997: 2,452 Number of people remaining at risk: approximately 1 Million Livestock reported killed so far: more than 35,000 Food stocks…

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 394 d'information sur l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est (du vendredi…

Southern Africa Regional Office El Niño Food Security Response Report # 2 April 14, 1998 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The CRS/SARO's first El Niño Food Security Response Report of March 4, 1998 was circulated widely and generated considerable feedback. In this Report # 2…