Reports

CONTENTS 1.Chronology 2.Easter with the Nuba 3.New mission at Adior 1.Chronology March 17: Sudan detained an airplane operated by a relief agency, along with all those on board, because the craft was used to aid southern rebels, a military official said today. The…

A weekly report on major developments concerning relief operations in southern Sudan BOMBS DROPPED ON YEI... Two aircraft dropped bombs on Yei on 10 April where UN and NGO staff have been working during the past few weeks carrying out relief…

(Excerpt) AFTERNOON HR/CN/97/49 ... In a resolution on the situation of human rights in the Sudan, the Commission expressed deep concern at continued serious human rights violations by the Government, including extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests, detentions without due process, enforced or involuntary disappearances, violations of…

by Renato Kizito Sesana (1,200 words) Against the wishes of the majority, the Sudanese civil strife continues unabated, claiming many lives and causing suffering of Biblical proportions to thousands of others. But the inhabitants of the Nuba Mountains are perhaps…

Co-ordinating Office Action 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 Federation (LWF) and…

Outbreaks of acute diarrhoea and cholera have continued to occur in various parts of the country since late 1996. Cholera has been confirmed and continues to be reported in Mogadishu and Merca and new outbreaks were reported in Lower…

Segun Adeyemi PANA Correspondent NEW YORK (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has recommended that a new UN Observer Mission for Angola be established July 1. In a report Monday to the UN Security Council, he also recommended the extension of…

(Circulated only for countries where foodcrops or supply situation conditions give rise to concern) The behaviour of the 1997 long rains in the unimodal rainfall central, southern and south-western areas gives cause for concern. These rains…

CONTENTS 1.Chronology 2.Easter with the Nuba 3.New mission at Adior 1. Chronology March 17: Sudan detained an airplane operated by a relief agency, along with all those on board, because the craft was used to aid southern rebels, a…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (PANA) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has severed its assistance to 220 of the 200,000 Rwandan refugees who have been living in northern Burundi since 1994. Mrs Claire Bourgeois, who heads the UNHCR sub-office in…