Reports

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS Floods continue to inundate three refugee camps with some 123,000 people in Ifo, Dagahely, and Hagadera in northeastern Kenya. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), mud-walled refugee homes are crumbling in the Ifo camp where some…

This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations. KENYA FLOODS Record-breaking floods continue to inundate northeastern Kenya's refugee camps, which remain isolated with all roads cut and…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (PANA) - Eritrean Foreign Minister Haile Woldense Monday said his country is against the economic sanctions imposed on Burundi by its neighbours following the July 1997 coup that brought Maj. Pierre Buyoya back to power. "The economic sanctions penalise the…

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 quotidien est base sur des informations pertinentes provenant d'agences de Nations Unies, d'ONG, de gouvernements, de…

Hutu extremists in Rwanda staged a brazen attack on a prison, freeing 600 men accused of genocide -- just the latest in a rising insurrection ever since the Hutu were returned from UN camps in Zaire. CHRIS MCGREAL reports HUTU…

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Sudan has condemned an assault on women demonstrators in Khartoum. Gaspar Biro, said that on 1 December some 50 women demonstrating against the forced military conscription of their sons were…

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says the peace process in Angola continues to be slow, with intermittent surges of UNITA cooperation and long periods of stagnation following one another. In a new report to the Security Council, the…

(Excerpt) GA/9376 Delegates Contend Work of Both Bodies Should Presage Permanent International Criminal Court; Situation in Central America also Discussed The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda played an important role in national reconciliation in Rwanda and in the political stabilization of…

Ref: DHAGVA - 97/0868 UPDATES ON SOMALIA INTER-AGENCY COORDINATED FLOOD RESPONSE Situation Updates: 1. The UN Resident Coordinator for Somalia reports that the situation in the flooded areas of southern Somalia continues to be serious. In some areas where the…

SACB - Situation on the ground Number of people newly reported to have died : 25 (total confirmed : 1,604) Number of displaced people: total so far at least 230,000 Livestock reported killed so far : at least 28,967 Food stock destroyed: more…