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@dha.unon.org IRIN Update No. 348 for Central and Eastern Africa (Thursday 5 February 1998) BURUNDI: Food prices more than…

OVERVIEW Since October 1997, exceptionally heavy rains associated with the El Niño phenomenon have caused havoc in most parts of eastern Africa, with severe floods seriously affecting food production and distribution. The floods have also caused extensive damage to crops, both…

A major humanitarian disaster is unfolding in the Southern Sudan region of Bahr el Ghazal and we are appealing to the international community to put pressure on the Government of Sudan (GOS) to allow Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS) and…

ICRC NEWS 05 ** SHORT MENU.... SOMALIA: SEED FOR FLOOD VICTIMS: The torrential rains that have been pummelling Somalia since last October have not only left people homeless, they have also severely affected agriculture, destroying the crop that had begun to…

(February 4, 1998) --In a letter to members of the U.N. Security Council yesterday, Human Rights Watch called for reactivating a commission to investigate arms flows to Rwanda, and extending the commission's mandate to include Burundi. The International Commission of…

N A T I O N S U N I E S Bureau pour 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…

ICRC NEWS 05 ** SHORT MENU.... KENYA: RED CROSS RELIEF AID IN RIFT VALLEY: For the past eight months, the Pokot and Marakwet districts in Kenya's Rift Valley have been rocked by violence between the two resident ethnic groups. Inter-tribal cattle-rustling…

Ethnic identity plays a decisive role in many interpretations of the conflicts in Rwanda and Burundi. Marc Sommers argues such a view may be failing to take crucial questions of power - and the lack of it - into…

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 BURUNDI: Rwanda considering lifting embargo Rwanda said yesterday (Tuesday) it was considering lifting regional trade sanctions on…

KHARTOUM, Feb 3 (Reuters) - A Sudanese official said in remarks published on Tuesday that government forces had killed at least 73 Eritrean troops in a counterattack near the border. Ibrahim Mohamed Hamid, governor of Kassala state in Sudan,…