Reports

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 SOMALIA: Stage set for presidential voting The field of contenders running for the presidency of Somalia has narrowed…

Brussels, 25 August 2000,10772/00 (Presse 287),P 117/00 The European Union welcomes the designation of a transitional national assembly, representing all shades of opinion in Somali society, by delegates at the Arta peace conference. It hopes that this first step towards a…

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 (Du 19 au 25 août 2000) SOMALIE: Tout est prêt pour l'élection présidentielle Le…

[This article does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] ARTA, DJIBOUTI, 25 August (IRIN) - The tiny, mountainous town of Arta 30 km south of the Djibouti capital has been transformed into a small piece of Somalia…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] LUANDA, 25 August (IRIN) - Jonas Savimbi, leader of Angola's rebel UNITA group, has a reputation clouded by cliches and cloaked in mystery. He's been described as a…

August 25 statement by State Dept.'s Philip Reeker State Department Deputy Spokesman Philip Reeker on August 25 expressed U.S. condemnation of government of Sudan aerial bombings and other attacks against civilian targets in the south, and in some Eastern Equatorial Region…

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…