Reports

Luanda, Angola - Quelque 50 pour cent des enfants angolais de moins de 5 ans meurent de paludisme, a indiqué le le directeur du Programme national de lutte contre cette maladie, M. Filomeno Fortes. M. Fortes a fait cette révélation…

Bishop David Konstant of Leeds has just visited Sudan to view the situation there first hand. Sudan is suffering terrible hardships, which according to Bishop Konstant largely result from the 16 years of civil war and exacerbated by crop…

JOHANNESBURG, 22 November (IRIN) - Heavy rains and strong winds have lashed southern Mozambique this week resulting in nine deaths and raising fears of a repeat of the catastrophic floods that devastated the country earlier this year. News reports said…

NAIROBI, 22 November (IRIN) - Somalia's newly appointed Prime Minister Ali Khalif Galeyr is in Nairobi for the first official meeting with Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi, before travelling on to Uganda. Since attempting to set up a national…

SUDAN: Government cancels diplomats visas The Sudanese government said it had barred the US charge d'affaires from entering the country in protest at a visit by US Assistant Secretary of State of African Affairs Susan Rice to southern Sudan. Foreign Minister…

News Release No: 2001/128/AFR WASHINGTON, November 22, 2000--The World Bank today approved a credit of US$90 million to assist the government of Eritrea in the process of long-term reconstruction and economic recovery. The Emergency Reconstruction Program will finance a set of…

As of 15 November, the Ministry of Health of Somalia has reported a total of 272 cases, including 14 deaths in Boroma, Awdal region, Somaliland since the start of the outbreak on 14 October 2000. Samples have tested positive…

NAIROBI, 21 November (IRIN) - Since the signing of a cooperation agreement by all the major Oromo opposition groups, the main armed party, the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) has focused a military and diplomatic initiative on the issue of…

SUDAN: 18 reported dead in Yei bombing Sudanese government planes have again bombed the Western Equatoria market town of Yei, southern Sudan, on Monday afternoon, according to humanitarian and media reports. Norwegian Peoples Aid (NPA), an aid organisation working in…

Press Release SC/6956 Council Briefed by Presidents and Chief Prosecutor of Two Organs The Security Council met today to take up the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. As it did so, it was briefed by…