Reports

Travel Advice Unit, Consular Division Foreign & Commonwealth Office 1 Palace Street, London SW1E 5HE Tel: 0171 238 4503/4504 Fax: 0171 238 4545 Do not visit Angola unless on essential business. Business visitors are advised that, although Luanda is calm at present, the…

Yahya el Hassan PANA Correspondent KHARTOUM, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese government announced here that its troops had recaptured a strategic town in the Blue Nile province which had fallen to an alliance of armed rebels in mid January. In a…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 E-mail: irin@dha.unon.org INTRODUCTION 1. This report follows two recent DHA/IRIN field trips to Uganda and describes developments affecting the humanitarian situation during January and February. The…

Contents 1. Chronology 2. Sudanese seek Mandela's intervention 3. Rumbek Diocesan Assembly held 1. Chronology (continues from previous issue) February 1997 15: Sudanese war planes have bombed a northern Ugandan town, killing one woman, the Ugandan government said here today, in the most serious…

This is an excerpt of the original WFP report which includes: A) Albania B) Democratic People's Republic of Korea C) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania D) Uganda E) Ethiopia F) Angola. PART I - HIGHLIGHTS (Details below in Part II) F.…

(excerpt) Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme This report includes: A) Albania B) Democratic People's Republic of Korea C) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania D) Uganda E) Ethiopia F) Angola. From P. Ares, Chief, Programming Service. Available on the…

(extract) Oxfams largest programme in Uganda, the Ikafe settlement for Sudanese refugees, has been greatly affected by rising levels of violence in northern Uganda. Security has become very bad, and 32,000, or 60% of the total population of the refugees…

FRIDAY, 3.30PM: A GROUP of up to 600 unidentified armed men killed 32 people at a Roman Catholic mission station in south-western Angola last week, an Angolan newspaper said today. Six nuns, whose fate is unknown, were also abducted…

In Burundi, authorities are appealing for calm after revealing they've foiled a plot to assassinate military ruler Major Pierre Buyoya. Army spokesman, Isaie Nibizi, says six people, including two soldiers, were arrested on suspicion of plotting to kill Major Buyoya, who…

(extract) Oxfam has for many years now maintained a programme of emergency and rehabilitation work in southern Sudan. This is ongoing, and has most recently included the distribution to displaced people of non-food materials on behalf of other agencies in…