Reports

The information contained in this report was provided by the United Nations Humanitarian Assistance Coordination Unit in Luanda (UCAH)1996 in Review ... 1996 saw the humanitarian situation in Angola improve dramatically with the opening of road routes…

LUSAKA, Zambia (PANA) - Zambian authorities have registered 239 Zairean refugees who fled the ongoing fighting between the national army and Tutsi rebels in the country's east. Zairean refugees have been arriving in Zambia since July when fighting erupted in…

30 December, 1996 Project Purpose Project Beneficiaries - Approximately 23,000 internally displaced people in 18 camps, 20% of whom are under the age of 5, in Muyinga province. Project Activities Rehabilitation of damaged water sources Background Since colonial times Burundi, like neighboring Rwanda, has…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org IRIN Emergency Update No. 67 on the Great Lakes (Saturday 28 December 1996) - The first trials in Rwanda of those suspected of committing crimes…

Somalia The Deyr (secondary) rainy season finally started in southern Somalia during the third week of November -- about 5 weeks later than normal. In many areas, dry-planted sorghum and maize had withered and died before the main rains fell.…

HARARE, Zimbabwe (PANA) - A contingent of 17 Zimbabwe police officers left Harare Friday for peacekeeping and observer duties in Angola. They will be part of a United Nations force helping Angola return to peace after nearly two decades of…

Lubango, Angola (PANA) - Some 7,000 children and 910 women of child bearing age have been immunized against various diseases under Angola's Expanded Immunization Programme in Chibia, northern Angola. Some 1,133 children, according to the province directorate of public health and…

From Lionel Williams; PANA Correspondent JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa is to fly Monday 20 tons of relief supplies to Rwanda, where thousands of refugees have returned from neighbouring states. The assistance, to be flown by the South African…