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. 298 for Central and Eastern Africa (Saturday-Monday 22-24 November 1997) RWANDA: Giciye reported calm after heavy fighting The Rwanda news…

DN: IP/97/1028 ip/97/1028 Brussels, 24 November 1997 Operation ECHO-Flight, which enables humanitarian aid to be flown into crisis-stricken areas of Somalia, Southern Sudan and Uganda, is being extended for two months until mid-January 1998. The European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO) has…

UNDP FLASH! UNDP's Emergency Response Division is contributing US$200,000 to support relief activities and aid coordination in areas affected by flooding in Somalia. An estimated 1,000 people have died, tens of thousands are homeless and as many as 200,000 others…

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 contribute $250,000 to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to help victims…

Lara Santoro, Special to The Christian Science Monitor KIGALI, RWANDA -- The menu at La Villa reads like a manual of high culinary art. Slivered roast duck and poached lobster come beautifully laid out in platters as the high…

Number of people reported to have died since 22.11.97: 67 (total confirmed so far:1,378) Number of displaced people: total so far at least 230,000 Villages reported to be cut off by water: information too incomplete Livestock reported killed: At least…

LUSAKA, Zambia (PANA) - The Chairman of the Eastern and Southern Africa Business Organisation (Esabo), Kassim Owango, has appealed to the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) to lift the economic embargo imposed on Burundi because of…

DATE=11/23/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-223119 TITLE=KENYA FLOOD REFUGEES (L ONLY) BYLINE=SONYA LAURENCE GREEN DATELINE=NAIROBI CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: REFUGEE CAMPS IN NORTHERN KENYA ARE AWASH IN MUDDY, CONTAMINATED WATER AFTER HEAVY RAINS POUNDED THE AREA AND THE TANA RIVER LEFT ITS BANKS. SONYA LAURENCE GREEN REPORTS…

Number of people reported to have died since yesterday: 4 ( Cumulative figure: 1,311) Number of displaced people so far: (Total cumulative figure 227,914) Livestock reported killed : So far more than 14,000 animals lost Food stock destroyed: More than 60,000 hectares of…

NEW YORK (PANA) - United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has chartered 10 boats and four helicopters to distribute aid in southern Somalia where flooding in the Juba and Shabelle valley regions has reportedly killed more than 2,000 people and…