Reports

DATE=10/11/96 TYPE=BACKGROUND REPORT NUMBER=5-34633 TITLE=ANGOLA/THE "SHAKE-SHAKE" ECONOMY BYLINE=ALEX BELIDA DATELINE=LUANDA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: ANGOLA'S ECONOMY HAS BEEN RAVAGED BY 20-YEARS OF CIVIL WAR AND POLITICAL INSTABILITY. NOW, AS AN INTERNATIONALLY-BACKED PEACE PROCESS NEARS ITS FINAL PHASE, ECONOMIC CONDITIONS HAVE WORSENED, THREATENING THE POLITICAL AND MILITARY…

DATE=10/11/96 TYPE=BACKGROUND REPORT NUMBER=5-34634 TITLE=ANGOLA/SAVIMBI BYLINE=ALEX BELIDA DATELINE=LUANDA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: U-S SECRETARY OF STATE WARREN CHRISTOPHER MAKES A BRIEF STOPOVER IN ANGOLA MONDAY AS HE CONCLUDES HIS FIRST EXTENDED TOUR OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA. HIS VISIT COMES AT A CRUCIAL TIME IN THE PEACE PROCESS…

Press Release SC/6278 SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS ANGOLA MISSION UNTIL 11 DECEMBER, WHILE EXPRESSING DISAPPOINTMENT WITH PEACE PROCESS DELAYS Unanimously Adopts Resolution 1075 (1996); Will Consider Trade, Travel Restrictions on UNITA without 'Substantial' Progress by 20 November Deeply disappointed with the delay of the…

This report includes: A) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania B) Liberia and Sierra Leone C) Afghanistan From P. Ares, Chief, Programming Service. For information regarding resources, donors are requested to contact Mr. F. Strippoli or Mr. M. Crosthwaite, WFP Rome…

From Segun Adeyemi; PANA Correspondent NEW YORK, United Nations, (PANA) Nigeria has urged Jonas Savimbi, president of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), to take urgent steps to update UNITA's implementation of key issues in the…

DATE=10/10/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-204452 TITLE=UN/ANGOLA (L ONLY) BYLINE=JOE CHAPMAN DATELINE=NEW YORK CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: DIPLOMATS URGED THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY) TO SEE THAT ANGOLA CONTINUES ON THE ROAD TO PEACE. V-O-A'S JOE CHAPMAN REPORTS FROM NEW YORK. TEXT: DIPLOMATS FROM MORE THAN 30…

NAIROBI (Reuter) - Kenya's President Daniel arap Moi is hosting exploratory peace talks in Nairobi between rival Somali faction leaders, diplomats said Thursday. They said major Mogadishu rivals Hussein Aideed and Ali Mahdi Mohamed arrived in Nairobi this week for…

KHARTOUM, Sudan (PANA) - The Khartoum government said it beat off an attack from Eritrea-based Sudanese armed opposition group near the border on Tuesday, forcing the attackers into retreat, the army said on Wednesday. "A force of the remnants of…

With a new regional summit on Burundi taking place later this week in Arusha, a succession of high-level visitors have come to Burundi in recent days, searching for a break through in the country's protracted crisis. There are signs…

9 October 1996 At a Headquarters briefing yesterday, the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Angola, Alioune Blondin Beye, informed correspondents about recent developments in Angola. Noting that the Security Council was scheduled to hold a meeting on Angola soon, he said that meeting…