Reports

UNDP FLASH! Two rival warlords in Somalia, Ali Mahdi and Hussein Aidid, have signed a joint statement calling on international donors to back a US$100 million UN appeal for Somalia launched in December. A severe drought which aid officials estimate…

(extract) UNDP Flash! A three-day meeting on Peace, Gender and Development held in Kigali last week ended with a call for the establishment of a compensation fund for the victims of genocide in Rwanda. The "Kigali Declaration" also urged all…

A P P E A LAppeal Target : US$ 75,000 Emergency applied for: Cyclone Gretelle Location: South-East Madagascar Date of the event: 24-25 January 1997 Requestee/Implementing Partner: Malagasy Lutheran Church Geneva, March 10, 1997 Dear Friends, On 24 and 25 January 1997, Cyclone…

Yahya el Hassan PANA Correspondent KHARTOUM, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan's commissioner for refugees, Mohamed Ahmed Hussein, has said the 6,000 refugees in Sudan fleeing Zaire's civil war are in desperate need of help. They are in need of emergency assistance, he…

Population: 10.7 Million Urban Population: 32% Major Ethnic and Linguistic Groups: Ovimbundu 37% Kimbundu 25% Bakongo13% Languages: Portuguese (Official), various Bantu languages Religions: Christianity (53%) and Animism 47% Population Annual Growth Rate: 3.0% Life Expectancy (at birth): 46 Years Infant Mortality (under one): 191…

BURUNDI Population: 6.2 million Urban Population: 7% Major Ethnic and Linguistic Groups: Hutu 85%, Tutsi 14% and Twa 1% Languages: French, Kirundi (both official)and Swahili Religions: Roman Catholic 62% Indigenous Beliefs 32% Population Annual Growth Rate: 2.9% Life Expectancy…

(Excerpt:) This report includes: A) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania B) Uganda C) Sahel - Chad, Mauritania and Niger D) Mozambique and Malawi floods. From P. Ares, Chief, Programming Service. Available on the Internet at WFP Home Page http://www.wfp.org/ or by e-mail from…

In a remarkable turnaround, Ethiopia has gone from being a drought victim to a surplus producer of grain, some of which has just been purchased by WFP to assist drought victims in Kenya. "It's quite significant that Ethiopia is now…

The United Nations Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Great Lakes Region today renewed a call on behalf of aid agencies to exempt humanitarian assistance from sanctions imposed on Burundi by its neighboring states. Mr. Martin Griffiths appealed to regional and local…

Thursday, 6 March 1997: UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy today condemned the continuing abduction of children by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda and called for the immediate release of all the youngsters now in captivity. Armed opposition…