Reports

UNITED NATIONS Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for Southern Africa Tel: +27 11 880 4633 Fax: +27 11 880 1421 e-mail: irin-sa@irin.org.za ZIMBABWE: Annan gives Mugabe guarded support, urges dialogue The UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan this week gave conditional…

NAIROBI, 7 Sept (IRIN) - People claiming to be escaped slaves from Sudan have demanded the arrest of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who has joined heads of state from around the world for the UN Millennium Summit. In a…

Current situation ETHIOPIA At the beginning of August the Ethiopian Government's Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Commission (DPPC) released a revised estimate of the number of people requiring food aid. In addition to the original 8.1 million people identified in the…

By Our Staff Reporter Fourteen young camp Sadako volunteers from Ethiopia, South Korea, Japan, Spain, the United Kingdom, the USA, France, Switzerland, Austria and New Zealand returned last week to Addis Ababa after a one month field mission to…

GENERAL CONTEXT The situation in relaxed considerably after the signing of the Arusha agreement on 28 August. According to political observers those parties who signed the accord only "with reservations" say they did so, only because they hadn't enough time…

Benguela, Angola Un groupe de promoteurs des Droits de l'Homme de la municipalité de Balombo, province de Benguela (littoral), a organisé, lundi dernier, un séminaire consacré aux droits de l'enfant et aux mécanismes destinés à la protection et à…

SUDAN-ERITREA: Troops move to eastern Sudanese border Eritrean troops and Eritrean-based Sudanese opposition forces have moved into positions along the border with eastern Sudan, according to news reports on Wednesday quoting the independent Sudanese daily, 'As-Sahafi Ad-Dawli'. The reports, which were…

ANGOLA: UNITA defends continued diamond sales News agencies report that the Angolan rebel group UNITA will continue to sell diamonds in defiance of UN sanctions designed to prevent it buying arms and prolonging a decades-old civil war. UNITA's chief foreign affairs…

General Highlights Djibouti Peace Conference Elects President After 10 years of civil war, Somali parliamentarians of the Transitional National Assembly at the Djibouti Peace talks held in the town of Arta elected Dr Abd-al Qasim Salad Hasan as President on the morning…

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 : Kinshasa doit préciser sa précision sur Lusaka, selon l'ONU Le gouvernement congolais doit préciser sa position sur…