Reports

Highlights Provincial Planning Workshop held in Luanda Food insecurity reported in Ganda, Benguela Province Joint mission assesses humanitarian needs in Luau, Moxico Province Land distribution to IDPs underway in Uíge Province General Humanitarian Situation and Assistance Provincial Planning Workshop On 4 and 5 September, a Provincial Planning Workshop…

Summary Updated IDP figures are available and reflect the movement of IDPs and camp residents to their homes. As yet it is undecided how to classify all areas of return as not all people have been able…

The World Health Organization (WHO) office in Eritrea would like to inform all UN staff, (resident and visiting), None Governmental Organizations, and other partners that the Ministry of Health of the State of Eritrea has notified an outbreak of…

Khartoum Sudan's Constitutional Court has suspended last week's decision by the Khartoum State Governor Majzoub Khalifa barring women from certain occupations. The court Saturday said it was suspending the governor's decision upon complaints from the Sudanese Women Union and from the…

Nairobi Kenya's Maasai herdsmen, facing severe drought, have driven their cattle to Nairobi in search of grazing land. A survey by PANA has established that Maasai herders, known for temporary structures due to their pastoralist way of life, have pitched…

Bujumbura, Burundi Cinq personnes ont été tuées et cinq autres blessées par les rebelles burundais dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi, en commune Bukemba dans la province de Rutana (sud-est du Burundi). D'après le porte-parole suppléant de l'armée Burundaise,…

NAIROBI (Sept. 9) XINHUA - The famine situation in Kenya is still severe and persistent with at least 3.3 million people being directly affected, the People daily reported Saturday. The newspaper quoted Kenya's National Drought Response Committee Chairman Uhuru Kenyatta…

NAIROBI, Kenya Egypt Friday gave a donation of 870,000 shillings (about 11,500 US dollars) to the World Food Programme's emergency operation to help alleviate the plight of more than three million drought- afflicted people in Kenya. The cheque was presented…

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 DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Kabila reshuffles cabinet Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Laurent-Desire Kabila has reshuffled his…

Brussels, 8 September 2000, 10912/00 (Presse 294), 127/00 The European Union hopes that the election of Mr Abdulkassim Salat Hassan as President of Somalia by the National Transitional Assembly meeting in Arta will contribute to the restoration of the State, to…