Reports

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. 309 for Central and Eastern Africa (Tuesday 9 December 1997) BURUNDI: Human Rights Watch accuses arms suppliers of…

DATELINE ACT Somalia No 2 Geneva, December 9, 1997 ACT-LWF has flown 44 tons of relief goods on 11 flights into flood stricken parts of Southern Somalia over the last week. A further 4 flights are planned for this week and…

DECEMBER 1997DHA REPORT ON REGIONAL SANCTIONS AGAINST BURUNDI CLAUDE BRUDERLEIN Team Leader PETER ERHARDY Research Assistant TABLE OF CONTENT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ACKNOWLEDGMENT INTRODUCTION - The DHA Mission on Sanctions against Burundi Section I Historical background of the sanctions regime. 1.1 Political perspective 1.2 Legal perspective Section II United Nations…

Peter Masebu, PANA Correspondent ABIDJAN, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Angola, which still faces an unstable military situation arising from three decades of civil war, is grappling with an explosive AIDS situation. One of the country's delegates at the on going 10th…

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is rushing assistance to flood victims in Somali and Myanmar, the agency announced on Tuesday. About 20,000 farm families in Somalia will receive $400,000 worth of emergency agricultural supplies and farm implements from FAO.…

(97-102) News Release Ottawa -- The Honourable Diane Marleau, Minister for International Cooperation and Minister responsible for La Francophonie, announced today that the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) will provide $5 million in emergency food aid to Ethiopia. "Over three and…

DATE=12/9/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-223886 TITLE=RWANDA / HUMAN RIGHTS (L ONLY) BYLINE=SONYA LAURENCE GREEN DATELINE=NAIROBI CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: RWANDA'S GOVERNMENT HAS SHARPLY CRITICIZED U-N HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER MARY ROBINSON,. AS SONYA LAURENCE GREEN REPORTS, MRS. ROBINSON RECENTLY BLAMED BOTH THE RWANDAN GOVERNMENT AND REBEL FORCES…

NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) - Britain has given Kenya 13.5 million shillings (some 211,665 U.S. dollars) for flood and diarrhoea emergency relief operations which have brought death to thousands of people in the northern part of the country, the national news…

By Tony Waters Certain thoughts about the Rwandan genocide of 1994 are commonly accepted. For the most part, these ideas have been used to explain the causes of the genocide and, by implication, propose solutions to Rwanda's continuing…

PR 97/72 Rome, 9 December -- Somali farmers, devastated in recent floods that destroyed 60,000 hectares of crops and farmland, will receive $400,000 worth of emergency agricultural supplies and farm implements from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the agency announced…