Reports

SUMMARY Maize available in Zimbabwe for the 2000/01 marketing year (April - March) is expected to reach about 2.54 million tons. This supply is made up of an estimated gross harvest in 2000 of about 2.1 million tons, 357,000 tons…

SUMMARY Insecurity in Bahr-el-Ghazal and Upper Nile Regions continues to cause population displacements to perceived safer locations, and is interfering with access to food. Following the occupation of Gogrial town by Sudanese Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) forces,…

SUMMARY The summer rains, between June and July, have been well below average. Some long-cycle crops such as maize and finger millet were subjected to water stress due to excessive heat in May and June. This year's overall sown…

Highlights In June, low river levels are causing concern for irrigated production. Although the level of Shabelle River was sufficiently high to allow gravity irrigation, farmers in Hiran and Upper parts of Middle Shabelle region were using…

NAIROBI, 30 August (IRIN) - The newly elected president of Somalia, Abdiqassim Salad Hassan, arrived in the capital, Mogadishu, to an ecstatic welcome on Wednesday morning from the public and a show of support from militiamen previously allied to…

UNITED NATIONS Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for Central and Eastern Africa Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org BURUNDI: Annan praises Arusha deal UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has welcomed the agreement reached on 28 August…

Ref: OCHA/GVA - 2000/0165 OCHA Situation Report No. 6 Madagascar - Cyclone "Hudah" 30 August 2000 From the UN Resident Coordinator's office Situation This report summarizes the information on the impact of three cyclones, Eline, Gloria and Hudah, as well as subsequent flooding in…

General situation Under the new facilitator, Nelson Mandela, the Arusha peace process seems to have gained new and much-needed momentum. After two years of talks, for the first time ever armed rebel movements, which have so far…

ZAMBIA-DRC: Rebels demand money to release Zambians Suspected Congolese rebels who abducted 26 Zambians in the northern border town of Kaputa are now demanding an undisclosed amount of money for their release to safety. Peter Machungwa, the Zambian home affairs minister said…

MOGADISHU (Aug. 29) XINHUA - At least 26 people were killed and more than 20 others wounded in three separate armed confrontations in the past two days in Jowhar town, 90 kilometers north of Mogadishu, Somalia. The first confrontation started…