Reports

Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme This report includes: A) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania. From P. Ares, Chief, Programming Service. Available on the Internet at WFP Home Page http://www.wfp.org/ or by e-mail from HicksDeb@wfp.org (fax 39…

01 - 10 Jan 1997 The information contained in this report was provided by the United Nations Humanitarian Assistance Coordination Unit in Luanda (UCAH) UCAH has issued an urgent call to the international donor community to continue its support for humanitarian programmes…

General WVS activities in both the Middle Juba and the Bari region are on going despite the delay of expat staff getting flights to get back to the field. However, all of them will be going back to on Saturday. WVS…

Bob Sieple WV US President visit to Sudan: We have kicked off with first time ever visit from Bob Seiple and his group from USA to Sudan this week, they were accompany by Bruce Menser, World Vision Sudan ,Program Director.…

Security: - According the Ugandan newspaper "The New Vision" of January 8, aid sources and a Rwandan defence spokesman said that up to 50 people, including Rwandan soldiers, civilians and armed infiltrators from Zaire have been killed since Christmas. Meanwhile, Rwandan…

From Lionel Williams; PANA Correspondent JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (PANA) South Africa has agreed to support the peace process in Angola and help in rebuilding the strife-torn country. President Nelson Mandela said this Wednesday in Umtata on the east coast after two…

HR/97/1 United Nations Human-Rights Observers Told of Tension in Reception of Former Refugees, Welcome Commencement of Trials for Genocide Some 5,460 recent Rwandan returnees were being held in detention throughout Rwanda as of 31 December 1996, according to a 6 January report…

ADDIS ABABA, Jan 8 (Reuter) - More than 4,000 Sudanese refugees have arrived in neighbouring Ethiopia since November, fleeing civil war and famine, Ethiopia said on Wednesday. The government Department of Refugees and Returnee Affairs said up to 4,128 Sudanese…

Insecurity persist in the country, with renewed fighting reported in the northern part of Cibitoke in late December, but also in southern Bujumbura rural and in Kayanza. The renew fighting has resulted in some 100 000 new refugees entering…

From Ghion Hagos; PANA Staff Correspondent ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (PANA) - Twenty six Somali political groups have accused the faction led by Hussein Aideed, the son of the late Gen. Mohamed Farah Aideed, of using funds secured from banana production…