Reports

NAIROBI, 4 September (IRIN) - With the election of a new president after a decade of civil war and anarchy, the UN Coordination Office is expecting to improve humanitarian access. Because of security problems and kidnappings of relief workers,…

NAMIBIA: Caprivi separatists and UNITA Alleged evidence of collaboration between Angolan UNITA rebels and Namibia's separatist Caprivi Liberation Army (CLA) has been uncovered by the Angolan army (FAA), Namibian security sources told IRIN. When the FAA captured a UNITA base earlier this…

Nairobi - Kenya has said that it would repatriate more than 200,000 Somali refugees as soon as a full-fledged government is established in the once war-ravaged Somalia. Speaking in Nairobi, Kenya's foreign affairs minister, Bonaya Godana, said that the presence…

Country: EthiopiaDrought affected: Population: 10,000,000 (revised June appeal; includes approx. 2,000,000 previously considered at risk) Areas : Somali, Oromiya, Tigray, Amhara, Afar Gambella , Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR) Affected children under five years: 1,700,000 Pregnant/lactating women: 850,000 Conflict…

Highlights Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement discussed in Luanda Lack of resources to combat malnutrition reported in Cambambe, Bengo Humanitarian conditions remain precarious in Bié Malnutrition rates among children under five improving in Malanje Inter-agency mission scheduled to assess conditions in Luau, Moxico General Humanitarian Situation…

LUANDA (Sept. 1) XINHUA - The World Food Program (WFP) has announced that it can only assure assistance to some 1.1 million war-displaced Angolans until November instead of the originally planned 1.5 million. Speaking here on Thursday, WFP spokeswoman Maria Flynn…

RUNDU, 1 September (IRIN) - Angolan UNITA rebels attacked the southern Angolan border town of Kwangari early on Thursday, sending civilians fleeing across the Kavango river into Namibia, Namibia's regional army commander told IRIN. Lieutenant-Colonel Bernard Nkawa said UNITA attacked at…

NAIROBI, 1 September (IRIN) - The following is a chronology of recent events in Somalia leading up to the establishment of a new interim administration which will govern the country for three years, pending elections: 26 June 1960: The former…

SOMALIA: New president asks for peace Somalia's newly elected president, Abdiqasim Salad Hasan said the country's "warlords" should abide by the wishes of the people, who wanted peace and stability. Speaking in an interview with the BBC on Thursday, he…

L'Union européenne condamne les exactions perpétrées, dans le cadre du conflit entre l'Ethiopie et l'Erythrée, à l'encontre des populations civiles de l'un ou l'autre pays, notamment celles intervenues depuis la conclusion de l'accord de cessation des hostilités du 18 juin…