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U N I T E D N A T I O N S Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 441125 Fax: +254 2 448816 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org This is number 11 in a series of weekly reports from…

Situation in Masisi, Eastern Zaire In a letter to the President of the UN Security Council dated 24 May, the Permanent Representative of Rwanda to the United Nations called for an emergency meeting of the Security Council to take immediate…

Tension on the Zaire/Rwanda border Over the past few weeks some 10,000 people have fled the fighting in the Masisi area of the North Kivu region of Zaire and taken refuge in Rwanda. These people are of Banyarwanda origin and…

OVERALL SITUATION DURING THE REPORTING PERIOD, REPRESENTATIVES OF NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE, UNITA AND HUMANITARIAN ORGANISATIONS INVOLVED IN HEALTH MET FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS YEAR TO DEFINE A COMMON STRATEGY FOR HEALTH ACTIVITIES IN ANGOLA. THIS JOINT UCAH-WHO INITIATIVE IS…

VEHICLE HITS LANDMINE IN TONJ COUNTY... On 10 April at 8 p.m., a Terra Firma vehicle hit a landmine 80km southeast of Tonj. The five passengers, two expatriates and three Sudanese, were wounded and transported to the ICRC Lopiding…

ANNEX G: SCOPE OF WORK The Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) Statement of Work Interim Strategic Evaluation of Assistance to Southern Sudan Purpose: The purpose of this evaluation is to assess the effectiveness of OFDA's Southern Sudan strategy in…

KHARTOUM, SUDAN - The Associated Press via Individual Inc. : Piles of broken mud bricks spread far across the vast field. They are the remains of tiny huts built by refugees who couldn't bring themselves to believe the government's…

[IRIN Note: IRIN does not normally distribute political statements, but the following transcript of a press release from UPRONA, dated 26 June 1996, will, we believe, be of exceptional interest to the humanitarian community. We also believe, after initial…

Civil war has been eating away at southern Sudan for the past 13 years. Africa's largest nation, over ten times the size of the United Kingdom, is rent apart by violence that no longer makes newspaper…

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Office of the Special Envoy, Kigali Main Developments The steering committee formed to oversee implementation of the plan of action from the Bujumbura conference in February 1995 met for the first time in Geneva on…