Reports

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (PANA) - At least 132 people were killed in a Thursday dawn assault by Hutu rebels who attacked the Gakumbu military barracks near Bujumbura international airport, 12 km northwest of the Burundian capital. Radio Burundi quoted military sources Thursday…

NATIONS UNIES Departement des Affaires Humanitaires / IRIN pour l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est Tel: +254 2 622 147 Fax: +254 2 622 129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org [Le bulletin hebdomadaire est base sur les bulletins quotidiens et des informations pertinentes provenant d'agences des Nations Unies,…

Sudan: north In the Red Sea State of north-east Sudan, Oxfam identified a major food security crisis over a year ago. Attempts to start and carry out a programme to respond to this were fraught with difficulties - logistical, political,…

ABSTRACT Food marketing is one of the fields where structural adjustment has been implemented throughout the Sub-Saharan Africa. This study analyses the impact of reform on the functioning and efficiency of food marketing. It is based on…

Reconstructing Africa's war damaged economies is an urgent task. This is especially so in a group of countries - Angola, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique - which must also complete their economic and political transition from…

Floods continue to wreak havoc: Although relief finally started to reach the affected areas of Southern Somalia, malaria and diarrhoeal disease continued to claim lives in what is seen as the worst flooding in 40 years. As of 24…

Preface Within a period of three months in 1994, an estimated five to eight hundred thousand people were killed as a result of civil war and genocide in Rwanda. Large numbers were physically and psychologically afflicted for life through maiming,…

ANGOLAN MISSION OBSERVER NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1997 For the first time since independence, Angola has launched an extended vaccination campaign to eradicate polio. Vice Minister of Health Teresa Cohen announced at the end of November that a total of 2.58 million Angolan…

A weekly report on major developments concerning relief operations in southern Sudan OLS staff to be relocated from Akobo... Staff of the OLS NGO Medecins sans Frontieres-Belgium are scheduled to be temporarily relocated from Akobo on 31 December on the advice of local…