Reports

Bujumbura - More than 60 people were injured in a grenade attack Wednesday at the Buyenzi market two km north-west of downtown Bujumbura. "It was 0700 (0500 GMT) when a grenade was thrown at dozens of shoe traders and shoppers",…

Khartoum, Sudan August 23, 2000 - The United Nations has said it has no objection to the Sudanese government's request to monitor relief flights heading towards war-torn Southern Sudan from the Kenyan airport of Lockichokio if authorities in Nairobi…

KHARTOUM - Libya said it considered the call for granting war-torn southern Sudan the right to self-determination was wrong and could destabilise the region, a senior Libyan official said Monday night. Ali el Teraiki, secretary of the Libyan general popular committee…

Nairobi, August 22, 2000 - Kenya's maize yields will drop by 43 percent in 2000 as a result of the ranging drought ravaging the country, agricultural experts have warned. They predict that barely 19 million bags will be harvested from…

NATIONS UNIES Bureau de coordination des affaires humanitaires Réseau intégré d'information régional Pour l'Afrique centrale et de l'Est Tel : +254 2 622147 Fax : +254 2 622129 E-mail : irin@ocha.unon.org RDC: La nouvelle assemblée prête serment Le président de RDC, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, a présidé…

JOHANNESBURG, 22 August (IRIN) - An amnesty offer by the Angolan government to UNITA rebel leader Jonas Savimbi could represent the beginning of a search for a political solution to the decades-old civil war, analysts told IRIN. Angolan military chief…

Kenya is suffering from "the worst drought in living memory". For the fourth successive season the rains have failed, and the greatest impact is being felt in the remote and traditionally arid areas of the North. The population of Marsabit…

CESCR 23rd session 22 August 2000 Morning The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this morning continued with its examination of the initial report of Sudan on how that country is implementing the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and…

CESCR 23rd session 22 August 2000 Afternoon The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this afternoon finished its review of the initial report on how Sudan complies with the rights embodied in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Following the…

SOMALIA: New assembly speaker sworn in Abdillahi Deroow Issack, the newly-elected speaker of Somalia's Transitional National Assembly, has been officially sworn in and designated acting president, pending the election of a new president by legislators at the Djibouti peace talks. Conference…