Reports

New York, February 26, 1996 -- Lutheran World Relief partners in Rwanda are limiting their travel and operations in response to current security problems. Meanwhile, in Zaire, the interchurch aid coalition ACT has suspended aid to needy refugees and displaced…

A weekly report on major developments concerning relief operations in southern Sudan. COSV STAFF TEMPORARILY RELOCATED FROM NYAL... Two staff members of the OLS NGO Coordinating Committee for Voluntary Service (COSV) were temporarily relocated from Nyal, western Upper Nile, on 19 February…

Good Rains Needed in Eastern Africa and the Horn Rains in eastern Africa and the Horn begin at different times during the year and have an assortment of names -- including long rains, short rains, Gu, masika,…

MAPUTO, Mozambique (PANA) - The Mozambican government on Monday appealed to the international community for emergency aid valued at almost 30 million U.S. dollars to assist the victims of Februay's severe flooding in the central provinces, and to repair flood…

Funds Sent To: Churches Action in Relief and Development (CARD) Malawi Amount Sent USD: 10,000.00 Date Sent: 25 February 1997 Rapid Response Fund Balance is now - USD:$ 85,875 Details of Payment Emergency Project: Initial flood relief activities. An appeal will be…

INTERNATIONAL APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE Ref: DHAGVA - 97/0075 DHA-UNDAC TEAM IN THE FIELD 1. DHA's UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team completed a field assessment in the floods- affected Chikwawa and Nsanje Districts in the Lower Shire Valley, focusing particularly…

Good Rains Needed in Eastern Africa and the Horn Rains in eastern Africa and the Horn begin at different times during the year and have an assortment of names -- including long rains, short rains, Gu, masika,…

Louise Tunbridge, Special to The Christian Science Monitor NAIROBI, KENYA -- Opposition politicians in Kenya say they have never had an easy time. Now, they add, the imposition of a "draconian" act by the government in the name of…

From Paul Ejime; PANA Staff Correspondent TRIPOLI, Libya (PANA) - The conflict in Burundi has gulped some 62 percent of the O.A.U. special Peace Fund, set up in 1993 to facilitate its mechanism for conflict prevention, management and resolution, according…

UN SECURITY COUNCIL PUSHES AHEAD WITH PLANS The UN Security Council went into private session on 25 February, during which it will agree to a plan to progressively cut its presence in Angola. The UN's new Secretary General, Kofi Annan, had…