Reports

LUANDA, 31 August: - The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Angola today expressed concern over what the UN described as the "alarming humanitarian conditions" in the municipality of Luau, situated in the north east of the province of Moxico, close…

THE Salvation Army International Emergency Services, operating in conjunction with the organisation's East Africa Territorial Headquarters in Kenya, is continuing to bring relief to those affected by famine. An order has been placed for 45,000 emergency family rations. These rations…

FEWS NET/Somalia This report is a joint publication of FSAU and the USAID Famine Early Warning System (FEWS NET) for Somalia. Detailed field information remains available through the FSAU/FEWS offices. HIGHLIGHTS - Following the inter-agency drought assessment carried out in Somaliland in…

A compilation of disaggregated population data in relation to official government (DPPC) relief beneficiary numbers. August 2000. to view the attached tables in pdf format* * Get Adobe Acrobat Viewer (free)

ARTA, Djibouti, 31 August (IRIN) - Hasan Muhammad Nur "Shatigudud" (Red Shirt), the military leader of the Rahanwein Resistance Army (RRA), joined the Djibouti-hosted peace talks as one of Somalia's main "warlords". "Shatigudud" a former colonel who served in the…

ZAMBIA: DRC rebels free 25 Zambian villagers Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have freed 25 Zambian villagers they seized last weekend but the fate of one is unknown, a Zambian minister was quoted in news reports as…

August 2000 INTRODUCTION This is the second of three annual issues of this report prepared by the FAO Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) on the food supply situation and cereal import and food aid requirements for all countries in…

LUANDA, 31 August: - The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Angola today welcomed the action taken by the Provincial Government of Huambo Province in facilitating over recent days the resettlement of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from…

Nine hundred and fifty thousand people, including an estimated 190,000 children under five years old, are in need of humanitarian assistance. According to the Government of Mozambique, the official death toll is 699 people. Massive amounts of fertile farmland and crops…

Summary The long-rains season has concluded in the severely drought-affected pastoral, agropastoral and marginal agricultural areas. Although rainfall was fairly heavy during May and June in the western areas of the country, the 2000 long-rains season was…