Reports

SACB - Situation on the ground 11 December, 1997 Number of people newly reported to have died : 81 (total confirmed : 1,695) Number of displaced people: total so far at least 230,000 Livestock reported killed so far : at…

By John Kakande Kampala - The United States has pledged to help Uganda end the Sudan-supported terrorism and to improve protection of the civilians in the north from continued human rights violations. US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, addressing a…

Nairobi -- The United Nations World Food Programme said today it has started an airlift to provide urgently needed food rations and emergency supplies to flood victims in the seven worst-hit areas of Kenya. The one-month operation will deliver 1,000 metric…

ICRC News 97/49 Intense efforts have been made by the authorities, the Italian government, the Ethiopian Red Cross Society and the ICRC to supply food, shelter and medicines by helicopter to thousands of displaced people in south-eastern Ethiopia. However, in the…

ICRC News 97/49 After waiting quietly in line for their names to be called, the youngsters come forward to take a mattress and blanket each and receive an armful of school supplies. Before carrying their new possessions back to the…

Weekly News An appeal for more than 12 million Swiss francs was launched last week to support one of the largest and most challenging operations the International Federation has mounted in eastern Africa. The worst floods in more than 30…

(11:05am AEDT) After days of delay, a United Nations aircraft has dropped the first packages of food in southern Somalia to thousands of people trapped by months of flooding. A World Food Program spokeswoman says a Hercules transport plane dropped two…

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 (Thursday 11 December 1997) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Mai-Mai launch attack on Bukavu Mai-Mai fighters and ex-Rwandan army soldiers attacked Bukavu town…

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,…

TRIPOLI, Libya (PANA) - Sudan officially denounced the meeting Wednesday in Kampala, Uganda, between the U.S. Secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, and the Sudanese People's Liberation Army leader, John Garang, in a statement made public Thursday in Khartoum. According to…