Reports

Maputo, Mozambique - Environ 198.000 hectares de plantations ont été détruites au Mozambique par les inondations ayant ravagé ce pays en février dernier, selon un rapport rendu public lundi, à Maputo, au cours de la réunion du Comité de…

Tervil Okoko Nairobi, Kenya - Somalia's new government of President Abdiqassim Salat Hassan has offered an olive branch to all the warring groups to bring about everlasting peace in the country, Prime Minister Ali Khalif Galayadh said at the weekend. The…

A project FAO proposed within the 2000 UN Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeal for Tanzania has helped more than 50,000 refugees improve family nutrition by learning to grow food. The refugees have been in Tanzania since 1993, when war and civil unrest…

SG/A/752, AFR/277 The following statement was issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General has decided to appoint Berhanu Dinka, his Special Representative for the Great Lakes Region, as Chairman of the Implementation Monitoring Committee…

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 BURUNDI: Mandela launches committee to monitor peace deal Burundi's peace process mediator Nelson Mandela on Monday inaugurated the…

FONDATION HIRONDELLE - AGENCE DE PRESSE HIRONDELLE A ARUSHA POURPARLERS DE PAIX INTERBURUNDAIS NEWS DU 27 NOVEMBRE 2000 Arusha, 27 novembre 2000 (FH) Le médiateur dans la crise burundaise, l'ancien président sud-africain Nelson Mandela, a lancé la commission de suivi de l'application…

SUMMARY The situation remains stable. The Annual Needs Assessment field work has been concluded and zonal reports are under preparation. World Bank approval of the two-year multi-donor, multi-sectoral Emergency Reconstruction Programme for Eritrea brings new hope for…

KAMPALA, November 27 (Xinhua) -- About 300 Rwandan ethnic Hutu refugees have crossed into Uganda from Tanzania and Rwanda since the beginning of last week, the New Vision newspaper reported on Monday. The refugees came under the pretext of visiting their…

ZIMBABWE: Industry sets conditions for supporting land reform The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) has set conditions, including upholding the rule of law, for it to help the government get international support for its land reform programme the 'Standard' reported on…

NAIROBI, 27 November (IRIN) - Sudanese government planes carried out several bombing raids in the Eastern Equatoria region at the weekend, demolishing part of a school and causing people to flee in panic, humanitarian sources said on Monday. The attacks…