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S/RES/1161 (1998) RESOLUTION 1161 (1998) Adopted by the Security Council at its 3870th meeting, on 9 April 1998 The Security Council, Recalling all its previous resolutions on the situation in Rwanda, in particular its resolutions 918 (1994) of 17 May 1994, 997 (1995)…

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@dha.unon.org IRIN Update No. 393 for Central and Eastern Africa (Thursday 9 April 1998) TANZANIA: UN, Tanzania deny…

This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations. DRC/BURUNDI An estimated 500 people, mostly Burundi nationals, but also some Rwandans and Congolese, have been forcibly sent back to…

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@dha.unon.org IRIN Update No. 392 for Central and Eastern Africa (Wednesday 8 April 1998) RWANDA: Bizimungu urges Europe…

Press Release 97/12 ROME, 8 April -- The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported today a massive Migratory Locust outbreak in Madagascar, warning that the situation, involving about 2 million hectares in the south-west of the country, may develop…

ICRC NEWS 14 Since the end of January, several thousand people have been displaced by artillery attacks on their villages in the Kassala region of eastern Sudan, along the Eritrean border. At the end of March the number of displaced…

(NAIROBI, 8 April) - A coalition of three major human rights groups today called Kenya "a powder keg waiting to explode" and warned the government to stop using "divide and rule" tactics that are likely to plunge the country…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY As Angola emerges slowly from a complex crisis created by more than 30 years of civil war, it faces a complex peace. For the people of Angola, the years of “peace” since the signing of…

Following a difficult four months where floods threatened to further destabilize the lives and livelihoods of an already vulnerable population, weather patterns in southern Somalia are slowly returning to normal. The floods have undeniably left considerable problems in their wake;…

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 390 d'information sur l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est (du samedi…