Reports

1. SUMMARY OF REGIONAL SITUATION While the intensity of the El Niño weather phenomenon continued high February, its impact on the 97/98 crop growing season in Southern Africa has not been very significant. The widespread drought anticipated by the patterns…

The Food Aid Organization of the United Nations System NAIROBI -- Final results from a United Nations World Food Programme harvest assessment conducted in southern Somalia this month indicate that major crops from the January harvest have been drastically reduced by…

N A T I O N S U N I E S 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@dha.unon.org IRIN: Bulletin quotidien no…

U N I T E D N A T I O N S 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 ANGOLA: Dos Santos warns…

Appeal Target : US$ 308,509 Geneva, March 3, 1998 Dear Colleagues, Several hundred people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced due to violent clashes in the Rift Valley Province and other parts of Kenya. Sources maintain that the…

U N I T E D N A T I O N S 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. 365…

Full text of appeal to French government (MSF) Paris, March 2, 1998 - For months now, a commission of the Belgian Senate has investigated the role of Belgium in Rwanda in April 1994. This commission has just published a report with…

N A T I O N S U N I E S 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@dha.unon.org IRIN: Bulletin quotidien no…

Addis Ababa, 2nd March: The ministerial council of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) has unanimously agreed upon holding its coming session in Khartoum for reviewing the issue of refugees in Africa. All the African foreign ministers are expected to…

March 2, 1998 BUJUMBURA, Burundi (PANA) - The President of Burundi, Major Pierre Buyoya, will Tuesday begin an 8-day official visit to Europe which will take him to France and Italy as part of diplomatic initiatives launched by Bujumbura to…