Reports

LUSAKA, Apr 27, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The European Union (EU) will release 1 million euro (about 0.85 million U. S. dollars) as food aid for refugees in Zambia, the Zambia Daily Mail newspaper reported Friday The paper quoted…

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 GREAT LAKES: WFP appeals for $93 million to fight hunger The World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday made…

General information The emergency coordination team is conducting a preliminary review of the situation in the four flood affected provinces. This review includes an evaluation of the existing capacity to support the distribution of seeds and tools, as well as…

THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS RECEIVED BY UNMEE MACC 1. UNPK Force reports that a new minefield may have been discovered around Senafe. On 26 Apr 01 a TM-57 mine was found at GR BD 437220 (longitude: 39 degree 24 minutes,…

The government of Austria donated 6.3 million USD for the implementation of projects in three priority sectors, namely food security, health and energy for the next three years. "With regard to food security, efforts will concentrate on the Amhara National…

Nairobi - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today launched a multi-million dollar appeal to provide emergency relief food to hundreds of thousands of Eritreans whose lives have been devastated by three successive years of drought and consequent crop…

News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty International * IOR 41/012/2001 - 76/01 At the closing of it's annual session in Geneva, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (CHR) took positive steps to tackle "disappearances", called again for…

SUMMARY Over the past nine months, emergency conditions across Somalia abated significantly due to the combination of good rainfall, adequate river levels, above average crop production, improved availability of ground water and pasture, and the limited, slow onset of the cholera…

By Nigel Marsh, World Vision's Communications Manger in East Africa. Within a generation, the Horn of Africa faces a water crisis that will multiply the worst of today's water-shortages across most of her population. By 2025, nearly 200 million people…

By Nigel Marsh Much of Mudhir Hassan's working day is spent on a piece of land little bigger than two tennis courts, neatly marked out into squares, each with a different crop growing in it. It's not a huge workplace…