Reports

ANGOLA: Influx of new IDPs WFP said in its latest situation report this week that an estimated 15,897 new internally displaced persons (IDPs) have arrived in Kuito in Bie Province in the central highlands from Cambandua, Chicala, Gamba, Chinguar and…

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 : <a href="http://lw4fd.law4.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?a=b&mailto=1&to=irin@ocha.unon.org&msg=MSG967456423.5&start=218898&len=13204&src=https://reliefweb.int/&type=x" target==5Ftop>irin@ocha.unon.org BURUNDI: Le FNL rencontre Mandela Le groupe rebelle PALIPEHUTU-FNL, qui avait jusqu'à…

LUSAKA, 25 August (IRIN) - Zambia is facing a mounting refugee crisis as a result of continuing conflict in neighbouring Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but humanitarian agencies are being hamstrung by a funding shortfall, a…

ARTA, Djibouti, 25 August (IRIN) The 245 members of Somalia's new interim parliament, the Transitional National Assembly (TNA), meeting in Djibouti, started voting on Friday to elect the country's first head of state in nearly a decade of civil war…

UNITED NATIONS Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for Southern Africa Tel: +27 11 880 4633 Fax: +27 11 880 1421 e-mail: irin-sa@irin.org.za NAMIBIA: Deteriorating security situation As the security situation in northern Namibian continues to deteriorate, Namibia's northern…

By Our Staff Reporter Ethiopia is making preparations to use the ports of neighboring countries of Kenya and the Sudan according to Ayenew Bitewilign, Vice Minister of Transport and Communication. The Vice Minister said that while a draft document…

By Our Staff Reporter With a view to ensure an efficient aid food supply, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has, in collaboration with the Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Commission, completed installing a commodity Tracking and Monitoring System…

The top UN envoy for humanitarian issues in Sudan, Tom Eric Vraalsen, stated yesterday that the UN's Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS) is "in very good shape." "This optimistic assessment is wrong, misleading, and strangely out of touch with recent…

Mr. Samuel Nyambi, the United Nations Resident Coordinator (UNRC) in Ethiopia, issued an appeal today, 25 August 2000, in Addis Ababa on behalf of the UN Country Team (UNCT) in Ethiopia, requesting a total of US$30.4 million for rehabilitation…

AI Index AFR 16/014/2000, News Service Nr. 163 All parties to the Burundi conflict should refrain from inciting violence and other human rights abuses against unarmed civilians in the tense run-up to the possible signature of a peace agreement on 28…