Reports

Kigali - At least eight civilians were killed and 50 seriously wounded Saturday in a grenade attack in Bukavu, capital of the Sud-Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The province's governor, Norbert Katintuma, told PANA Monday in a…

Arusha, Tanzania -- President Clinton on August 28 urged the parties to the Burundi Peace Talks in Arusha, Tanzania, to drop their enmities and give peace a chance. In a speech at Simba Hall Arusha International Conference Center, the last…

Angola's government continued to pursue complete military victory over rebel forces during the first half of the year, while growing numbers of local nongovernmental leaders pressed for a negotiated settlement to the latest round of conflict in the country's on-again…

Uganda's massive internally displaced population numbering 450,000 or more when the year began - grew larger during the first six months of 2000 as insurgent attacks continued to push families from their homes in northern and southwestern regions of…

SG/SM/7518, AFR/266 Following is the text of the message from Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of the inauguration ceremony of the President of Somalia, delivered on the Secretary-General's behalf by his Representative for Somalia, David Stephen in Djibouti on…

Maputo (AIM) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is to buy from Mozambican farmers 7,000 tones of the maize it needs to distribute among the needy, according to Monday's issue of the daily paper "Noticias", citing a…

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 BURUNDI: Clinton arrives in Arusha US President Bill Clinton arrived in Arusha on Monday, but it was…

ARTA, Djibouti 28 August (IRIN) - Somalia's newly-elected transitional authority will have to garner international and domestic support following the election in neighbouring Djibouti of an interim parliament, the Transitional National Assembly (TNA), and a new head of state, President…

Framework agreement for peace in Burundi signed White House National Security Adviser Samuel Berger on August 28 characterized the signing of a framework agreement by 14 of 19 parties to peace talks in Arusha, Tanzania, as "an important step in an…

Hundreds of thousands of Eritreans fled their homes during May and early June when Ethiopia launched a military offensive that defeated Eritrean troops and forced an apparent end to a bloody two-year border war between the two countries. The two…