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SOMALIA INTER-AGENCY FLOOD RESPONSE - Weekly Report / 21.1.- 27.1.98 - Number of people reported killed to date: confirmed deaths: 2,161 Number of people remaining at risk: approximately 1 Million Livestock reported killed so far: more than 33,500 Food stocks destroyed: more than…

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. 341 for Central and Eastern Africa (Tuesday 27 January 1998) RWANDA: Refugees must…

N A T I O N S U N I E S 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 339 d'information sur l'Afrique Centrale et…

By Manoah Esipisu NAIROBI, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The long-term cost of heavy unseasonal rains blamed on the El Nino weather phenomenon was brought home to Kenyans on Monday with the agriculture ministry forecasting massive output declines…

UNITED NATIONS 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. 340 for Central and Eastern Africa (Saturday-Monday 24-26 January 1998) RWANDA: 12 killed in weekend violence More violence in northwest Rwanda…

Ref: DHAGVA - 98/0144 1. The UN Resident Coordinator in Maputo reports that the landslides occurred in the central Mozambican province of Zambezia on 20 January. According to the latest information, 47 people were killed, while another…

AI INDEX: AFR 47/4/98 Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's recent calls for executions of perpetrators of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda is deplorable and will only serve to perpetuate the cycle of bitterness and revenge in the Great Lakes region, Amnesty…

Press Release WHO/13 Rift Valley Fever (RVF) is widely distributed in Kenya and Somalia, primarily in animals but also in humans, World Health Organization (WHO) officials investigating the disease outbreak in the two countries say. The estimated number of deaths…

REG. NO. 98/0008 Period covered: 17-26 January 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 Bujumbura calmer. The situation in and around Bujumbura…

HUMANITARIAN UPDATE Update on Floods in Somalia. International organizations continued to bring assistance to flood affected areas focusing at the same time on the emerging health problems related to the flood disaster. Well chlorination and social mobilization regarding cholera awareness…