Reports

By Rosalind Russell AJIEP, southern Sudan, July 3 (Reuters) - In a small graveyard behind the feeding centre, eight-year-old Aluat is buried in an empty grain sack. Her distorted, bony body was found an hour earlier amid the screaming, wretched chaos…

UNITED NATIONS Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for Central and Eastern Africa Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org [The weekly roundup is based on IRIN daily updates and other relevant information from UN agencies,…

This report includes: A) Guinea Bissau B) Angola C) Sierra Leone D) East and Central Africa: Rwanda, Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo E) Sudan - update in the form of a supplement F) Yugoslavia and Region: Kosovo crisis. From…

OVERVIEW Continuous civil strife since 1988 has seriously disrupted the Somali economy and damaged most of the country's infrastructure. A large proportion of the population has been displaced. The disastrous floods in late 1997 dealt an added blow to the…

James P. Rubin, State Department Spokesman, July 2 urged the Government of Sudan to keep its pledge made at peace talks on the country's civil war in Nairobi in April that it would no longer impede relief operations. Rubin said…

War looms as UNITA shuns peace process There are clear signs that UNITA is preparing to relaunch its war in Angola. In desperation the United Nations has imposed further sanctions on UNITA in an effort to force it back into…

Humanitarian operations in Angola are being crippled by a lack of access to the needy, at a time when they are most desperately required, aid agencies say. The prevailing insecurity has led the over-stretched UN observer mission MONUA to withdraw…

UNITED NATIONS Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for Central and Eastern Africa Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Tshisekedi returns to Kinshasa The DRC authorities have released veteran opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi…

La psychologie des foules pourrait expliquer en partie le genocide anti-tutsi et les massacres d'opposants politiques au Rwanda, a affirme un psychiatre francais, jeudi, devant le Tribunal penal international pour le Rwanda(TPIR) lors de son contre-interrogatoire…

Famine estimated to affect 2.6 million The U.S. Committee for Refugees and World Vision today called for an immediate moratorium on all bombing in Southern Sudan. "The aerial bombings in the region are inhibiting the humanitarian response, thus limiting food and…