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Angola

Médecins Sans Frontières Expresses Concern Over Fate of IDPs in Angola

Displacement and Rural Insecurity Increasing New York, NY -- July 26, 2000: The international medical relief organization Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today expressed deep concern over the security and health of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Angola and…

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News and Press Release
Source:
MSF
Posted:
26 Jul 2000

Angola + 11 more

Security Council holds debate on children and armed conflict

Security Council - 4176thMeeting Morning & Afternoon Child soldiering must be curbed by mobilizing political pressure, addressing the economic, social and political factors behind the phenomenon, and enhancing capacities on the ground for receiving and rehabilitating child soldiers,…

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News and Press Release
Source:
UN SC
Posted:
26 Jul 2000

Angola + 1 more

UN: Interview with Acting Emergency Relief Coordinator Carolyn McAskie

NEW YORK, 26 July (IRIN) - In the first part of an interview with IRIN, Carolyn McAskie - acting Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) and Acting Head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) - said…

Format:
News and Press Release
Source:
TNH
Posted:
26 Jul 2000

Rwanda

Famine claims heavy toll in southern Rwandan region

Kigali (dpa) - Famine afflicting southern Rwanda has claimed the lives of over 400 people since last September, official sources in the area reported Wednesday. ''The Bugesera region should be declared a disaster zone. We are faced with an unprecedented…

Format:
News and Press Release
Source:
DPA
Posted:
26 Jul 2000

Eritrea + 1 more

UN sets up Observer Mission for Ethiopia, Eritrea

NEW YORK, UN (PANA) - The UN security country has authorised a 100-member observer mission for Ethiopia and Eritrea that recently reached an agreement to end two years of deadly hostilities. In a resolution adopted Tuesday, the council mandated the…

Format:
News and Press Release
Source:
PANAPress
Posted:
26 Jul 2000

Angola

Angola Peace Monitor Issue No.11, Vol.VI

Angolan army advances The Angolan army, FAA, have made further territorial gains against Jonas Savimbi's rebel movement - UNITA. The government now claims to control 92 percent of Angola's 157 districts, including eleven of the thirteen districts in the two…

Format:
Situation Report
Source:
ACTSA
Posted:
26 Jul 2000

Eritrea + 1 more

UN Opens Liaison Office For Peacekeeping Operations

Ghion Hagos, PANA Correspondent ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (PANA) The UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations Wednesday opened a liaison office in Addis Ababa to facilitate the deployment of a peacekeeping force along the Ethio-Eritrean border. Col. Jukka Pollanen is the liaison…

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News and Press Release
Source:
PANAPress
Posted:
26 Jul 2000

Angola + 6 more

Bulletin quotidien d'information No. 975 pour la région des Grands Lacs

NATIONS UNIES Bureau de Coordination des Affaires Humanitaires - IRIN Pour l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est Tél: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 E-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org GRANDS LACS : Les humanitaires 'recollent les morceaux' Un rapport de l'ONU sur la situation dans les Grands Lacs…

Format:
News and Press Release
Source:
TNH
Posted:
26 Jul 2000

Djibouti + 4 more

IRIN Horn of Africa: IRIN Update, 26 July

SOMALIA: Aid workers seized in Mogadishu Unidentified gunmen operating in the south of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, have kidnapped a French woman and a British subject employed by the NGO, Action contre la Faim (ACF), a spokeswoman for the agency…

Format:
News and Press Release
Source:
TNH
Posted:
26 Jul 2000

Somalia

Somalia: Two Action Against Hunger Relief Workers Held Hostage in Mogadishu

Wednesday, July 26th, 2000 During early morning on Wednesday, several unidentified armed men forced their way into the residence home of Action Contre la Faim ( the organisation’s French head office managing relief operations in Somalia) relief…

Format:
News and Press Release
Source:
ACF
Posted:
26 Jul 2000

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