Reports

Highlights Food security conditions in most of Uganda continue to be adequate following the first season crop harvest from June through August. In Kotido and Moroto Districts (Karamoja Region), however, that have a single harvest beginning in…

Summary Good to heavy rains fell during the first dekad of August in the agriculturally productive areas of southern Zoba Gash Barka and all of Zoba Debub. These rains continued into the second and third dekads along…

Highlights The prolonged drought in Kenya has caused a disturbing decline in the welfare status of pastoralists, agropastoralists and marginal agricultural households. The viability of pastoralist livelihoods, in particular, has deteriorated to alarming levels. Rising livestock mortality,…

Highlights Heavy rains fell in most parts of southern Sudan during August, in welcome contrast to the low and erratic rains that characterized the earlier months of the season. These heavy rains flooded low-lying areas in Bahr-el-Ghazal,…

Summary The failure of the belg (minor growing season) 2000 harvest followed by poor kiremt (major growing season) rainfall distribution in the eastern half of the country will continue to limit domestic production of food supplies into…

SC/6921 The Security Council this morning authorized the deployment of up to 4,200 troops, including 220 military observers, for the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE). It also mandated the mission until March 2001. It did this by unanimously…

NATIONS UNIES Bureau de Coordination des Affaires Humanitaires - IRIN Pour l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est Tél: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 E-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org RDC : Retour de l'évêque Mgr Kataliko à Bukavu L'évêque de Bukavu, à l'est de la République démocratique du…

ETHIOPIA-ERITREA: UN deploys military observers The first deployment of 46 UN military observers in Ethiopia and Eritrea has begun as part of the effort to end the war between the two nations which broke out in 1998. "We just spoke with…

By Jim Fisher-Thompson, Washington File Staff Writer Washington -- Visiting Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has praised the Clinton administration for helping bring about a cease-fire between Ethiopia and Eritrea and paving the way for what could be "a final and…

The signing of the Arusha Peace Accord on August 28 marks a potential new beginning for Burundi. However, political progress alone cannot facilitate peace. Unless the political efforts are met by humanitarian and economic progress, the work accomplished in Arusha…