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Angola + 5 more

IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 31 covering the period 29 Jul - 4 Aug 2000

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: A warning strike Zimbabwean workers heeded a one-day stay-away call on Wednesday by the Zimbabwe…

Format:
News and Press Release
Source:
TNH
Posted:
4 Aug 2000

Kenya

Horn of Africa crisis: Drought in Kenya

Oxfam's Liz Clayton visits drought-stricken Turkana, where nomadic farmers have lost much of their livestock and livelihood The rains have failed for the last three years, and people's traditional coping mechanisms are exhausted. Pastoralists earn their living by herding cattle…

Format:
News and Press Release
Source:
Oxfam
Posted:
4 Aug 2000

Ethiopia

Over 10 Million at Risk in Ethiopia

UNICEF estimates that 1.4 million children under the age of five are at risk of acute malnutrition in Ethiopia. Since April, UNICEF has dispatched nine relief flights to famine threatened countries in the Horn of Africa. Each flight transported up…

Format:
Situation Report
Source:
UNICEF USA
Posted:
3 Aug 2000

Somalia

End nears for Somalia's decade-long civil war

As a new peace pact takes hold, Somalis ready to choose new leaders. By David Gough, Special to The Christian Science Monitor Fadumo Abdukadir can barely remember life in Somalia before civil war began 10 years ago. She struggles to recall the…

Format:
Analysis
Source:
CSMonitor
Posted:
3 Aug 2000

Djibouti + 3 more

IRIN Horn of Africa Update, 3 August

SUDAN: Bombing forces MSF out The non-governmental organisation Medecins sans frontieres (MSF) said on Tuesday that an aerial bombing campaign by the Sudanese government had forced it to suspend its aid operations in part of northern Bahr el Ghazal province,…

Format:
News and Press Release
Source:
TNH
Posted:
3 Aug 2000

Burundi + 2 more

IRIN Update 981 for the Great Lakes

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 BURUNDI: Buyoya meets army officers to discuss peace accord Burundian President Pierre Buyoya on Wednesday had a meeting…

Format:
News and Press Release
Source:
TNH
Posted:
3 Aug 2000

Kenya

Kenyan Herdsmen Told to Be out of National Parks

NAIROBI (Aug. 3) XINHUA - Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has told drought-striken pastoralists to drive their livestock out of Mount Kenya National Park, saying that the herdsmen were an additional threat to the forest park. Herdsmen were aggravating the menace to…

Format:
News and Press Release
Source:
Xinhua
Posted:
3 Aug 2000

Somalia

Somalia : 2 Action Against Hunger's Fieldworkers Abducted in Mogadishu

The International organisation Action Against Hunger remains very concerned about the fate of its 2 fieldworkers abducted in Mogadishu on Wednesday 26th July. All Action Against Hunger's programs in Somalia are currently suspended with the exception of minimal life-saving activities. The…

Format:
News and Press Release
Source:
ACF
Posted:
3 Aug 2000

Eritrea + 2 more

Sudanese, Eritrean Defense Ministers Meet to Ease Tension

News Article by XINHUA posted on August 03, 2000 at 02:09:06: EST (-5 GMT) KHARTOUM (Aug. 2) XINHUA - Sudanese Defense Minister Bakri Hassan Saleh held talks with his Eritrean counterpart Sebhat Ephrem here Wednesday on easing tension between the…

Format:
News and Press Release
Source:
Xinhua
Posted:
3 Aug 2000

Somalia

Somalia: Progress reported at peace conference

ARTA, Djibouti, 3 August (IRIN) - After weeks of political haggling, two Somali groups on Wednesday handed in lists of their nominees for the setting up of the long-awaited 225-seat Transitional National Assembly (TNA). The Dir, a main clan grouping,…

Format:
News and Press Release
Source:
TNH
Posted:
3 Aug 2000

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