Reports

International aid workers have been called on to help save tens of thousands of starving people in drought-stricken Somalia. Somali faction leader, Hussein Mohamed Aidid, has appealed for food aid and vowed to ensure the security of foreign aid workers who…

DATE=2/10/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-209892 TITLE=BURUNDI / OGATA (L) BYLINE=SCOTT STEARNS DATELINE=NAIROBI CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE HEAD OF THE U-N REFUGEE AGENCY HAS ARRIVED IN BURUNDI. V-O-A EAST AFRICA CORRESPONDENT SCOTT STEARNS REPORTS THE U-N OFFICIAL SAYS IT IS NOT YET SAFE FOR BURUNDIAN REFUGEES TO RETURN…

EMERGENCY RESPONSE OFFICE 32 Denominations & Communions Working Together to Meet Human Needs This alert does not guarantee that an appeal will follow. To give your input, see contact at end of bulletin. Some 2.5 million people face starvation due to…

KIGALI, Rwanda (Reuter) - Rwanda's military strongman said Friday the government had the right to divert foreign aid to its war against Hutu extremists because providing security in the country was the top priority. Defense Minister Paul Kagame, whose mainly Tutsi…

From Ghion Hagos ; PANA Staff Correspondent ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has ruled out war with neighbouring Sudan in spite of what he termed "massive military propaganda" from Khartoum and the diplomatic stand-off between…

THIS APPEAL SEEKS CHF 885,000 IN CASH, KIND AND SERVICES TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO 42,000 VICTIMS FOR 3 MONTHS Summary Cyclone Gretelle, which was of unprecedented violence (destroying national monuments, including churches and prisons), struck south-east Madagascar on 24 and 25…

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (PANA) - The Burundi Democratic Front (FRODEBU), the former ruling party in that strife-torn country, on Thursday requested for United Nations troops to restrain the military government in Bujumbura from further harassment of the masses. The…

Emergency Response in Mundri and Maridi: World Vision distributed 580 displaced kits and some food at Nabanga camp about 105 Km from Maridi and the distribution went on well. The population of returnees was 2020 persons, the situation is still…

Contact: Dennis Grace (202)828-0110 The current fear in Rwanda is that it may become another Burundi. Rwanda has achieved dramatic infrastructure and security improvements in the two years since the 1994 genocide. Recently, however, Rwanda has been plagued by increasing…

NEW YORK (PANA) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has begun investigations into the Tuesday killing of four of its field agents in Rwanda, and has asked the country's military to do likewise. "I strongly condemn this…