Reports

ANGOLAN MISSION OBSERVER NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1997 A Zimbabwean member of the UN Observer Mission in Angola (MONUA) was assaulted by eight UNITA rebels in Jamba, in the southeastern province of Kuando-Kubango on November 12. Lieutenant Warren Chanda was seriously wounded in…

ANGOLAN MISSION OBSERVER NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1997 November 20 marked the third anniversary of the signing of the Lusaka Protocol. Although it was the Government's hope that Angola would have arrived at this milestone with the peace process successfully completed and with…

Los Angeles -- A re-emerging epidemic in South Sudan of Trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, was named one of the Top 100 Science Stories of 1997 in the January '98 issue of DISCOVER magazine. "The last thing Africa needs is another deadly…

OLS is a consortium of UN and non-government agencies working with the people of southern Sudan, whose survival, protection and development is jeopardized by the complex emergency and chronic underdevelopment. In striving to meet the needs…

PLEASE NOTE THAT DAILY UPDATES ON THE EMERGENCY CEASED BEING PROVIDED ON 19 DECEMBER, 1997. THEY WERE REPLACED BY WEEKLY UPDATES ON THE EMERGENCY WITH THE FIRST ONE BEING ON 31 DECEMBER, 1997. ROBERT KIHARA, UNICEF SOMALIA, 7 JANUARY, 1998, e-mail: Robert.Kihara@unicef.unon.org SACB…

Floods and diseases: As in other Horn of Africa countries, Kenya was also recently affected by floods and diseases. Thousands of families were driven from their homes when Kenya's Tana river burst its banks and flooded large areas around Garissa…

Ethiopia says more than two million people in the country's northern region are in need of food aid following the destruction of their crops by drought and floods. The Regional Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Commission says more than 80-thousand tonnes…

GENEVA, Dec 30 (Reuters) - An unidentified disease which may have killed up to 250 people in remote northeastern Kenya and Somalia since October is not a threat to tourists, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday. A localised…

UNITED NATIONS Department 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. 322 for Central and Eastern Africa (Tuesday 30 December 1997) KENYA: "Logistical problems" mar general elections Administrative hitches continued…