Reports

By Buchizya Mseteka JOHANNESBURG, Nov 28 (Reuters) Another summit to try to end a three-year conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo has come and gone with little or no action. At the latest meeting in the Mozambican capital Maputo on…

ZIMBABWE: ZANU-PF wins by-election President Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party won a parliamentary by-election marred by violence in the town of Marondera, news reports said on Tuesday. ZANU-PF scooped 7,376 votes to the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC's) 4,366…

Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Representative for the Great Lakes region today chaired the first meeting of the committee monitoring the implementation of Burundi's peace agreement. Special Representative Berhanu Dinka presided over the gathering of the Implementation Monitoring Committee, which brought together…

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 DRC: Worst-case scenarios now unfolding A report has warned that the grimmest forecasts of the humanitarian situation…

JOHANNESBURG, 28 November (IRIN) - Contrary to Angolan government claims that the rebel group UNITA is a spent force, a recent security report said the rebels are launching new offensives. The report, from a Johannesburg-based risk-assessment company, documents increased UNITA…

JOHANNESBURG, 28 November (IRIN) - A senior Zambian military commander told IRIN on Tuesday that Zambia's armed forces were ready to defend the country's "territorial integrity", following a warning by Angolan UNITA rebels that its war against the government could…

Dakar, Senegal - In Somalia, which has had no central government for a decade, the new transitional national government is making demobilisation of thousands of militia members and their reintegration into society a priority. The goal is to demobilise up…

From IOM Press Briefing Notes by Thomas Weiss, IOM Spokesperson The Government of Zambia has requested IOM's assistance to transport some 2,000 former Angolan UNITA combatants and their families who recently entered the North Western Province of Zambia. The newly-arrived are…

UNMEE/PR/14 The United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) today successfully opened the first access route through the frontlines. UNMEE Force Commander Major-General Patrick Cammaert and a small number of key staff members traveled in a two-vehicle convoy by road from…

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…