Reports

Overview : UN Secretary General's Envoy for Humanitarian Affairs starts visit to Sudan. 2,400 displaced households in Juba receive 88 Mts of seed for immediate planting Livestock project: 300,000 cattle vaccinated against rinderpest Arrival of the UN Secretary General's Special Envoy for Humanitarian…

(9:25pm AEST) The Australian Government has allocated more than four-million dollars in food aid and refugee assistance for victims of conflict and drought in southern Sudan and central Africa. Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Afffairs, Andrew Thompson, says the combined affects of…

Nairobi, 10 June 1997 -- The United Nations World Food Programme is appealing for US$ 2 million cash this week to help pay transport costs for an emergency food distribution in areas of southern Somalia where crop failure has led…

Through 9 June, IOM had provided return and resettlement assistance to 12,856 demobilized soldiers (DS) and 15,184 accompanying dependants. Operations in all but three of the Selection and Demobilization Centres (SDC) in Regions 1 and 2 (central and southern) have…

Co-ordinating OfficeAction by Churches Together (ACT) is a worldwide network of Churches and their related agencies meeting human need through co-ordinated emergency response and common identity. The ACT network is organizationally based in the Lutheran World…

Policy Analyst WORLD VISION RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT on H.R. 748 PROHIBITION ON FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS WITH COUNTRIES SUPPORTING TERRORISM ACT OF 1997 before the SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIME HOUSE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY JUNE 10, 1997 Introduction Mr. Chairman, thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today.…

By Lesley Wroughton LUANDA, Angola (Reuter) - Relief agencies have withdrawn their staff from two towns in eastern Angola because of increasing security problems, aid officials said Tuesday. The officials, who declined to be identified, said a U.N. World Food…

(Excerpt) DAILY HIGHLIGHTS The Secretary-General's Special Representative for Angola Alioune Blondin Beye received assurances of cooperation from UNITA leader Dr. Jonas Savimbi in Bailundo a UN announced on Tuesday. UN Spokesman Fred Eckhard said these renewed assurances, given during the meeting in…

(Excerpt) DAILY HIGHLIGHTS The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced in Geneva on Tuesday that it had stopped its activities in Burundi. UNHCR said it ceased its activities in the Chibitoke region in the far north-western part of Burundi, after…