Reports

This report* does not necessarily reflect the official position of the United Nations. Weekly Highlights MONUC inquiry determines at least 25 civilians killed during attack last month in Lutwegi, North-Kivu Province Precarious humanitarian situation reported for new waves of Congolese expelled from…

Context The Accra peace accord signed in August 2003, followed by the deployment of UN peacekeepers (UNMIL), has brought an end to Liberia's 14 years of civil war. A fragile peace is now in place and security has improved in…

Ten years ago this week some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in the genocide that broke out on April 6th, the worst planned ethnic killing since the Holocaust fifty years prior. The events of 1994 ripped through…

Text: Kent Page, UNICEF Regional Communication Officer, Western & Central Africa Region, Dakar Situation Overview: West Africa today finds itself at a critical juncture, particularly amongst the countries affected by the ongoing Ivory Coast Sub-Regional Crisis. Cross-border violent conflict, ethnic bitterness…

This report* does not necessarily reflect the official position of the United Nations. Weekly Highlights 1.4 million IDPs are estimated to be living in the Kivus and Maniema Provinces and Northern Katanga, 73% of whom are accessible but only 45% assisted:…

Executive Summary As a result of the ongoing conflict in Darfur, thousands of Sudanese have fled their country to seek refuge in neighbouring Chad. The exact number of refugees, who are scattered along a 600 km stretch…

21 - 29 March 2004 GENERAL SITUATION 1. Highlights NTGL Ministers inducted The Chairman of the National Transitional Government of Liberia, Mr. C. Gyude Bryant formally inducted 14 Ministers at a ceremony held at the Executive Mansion on 23 March 2004. The…

S/2004/251 I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to Security Council resolution 1493 (2003) of 28 July 2003, by which the Council extended the mandate of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of…

AI INDEX: AFR 16/011/2004 Jean-Noel R joined the Burundian armed forces aged 15 in 1998. He had already been helping soldiers for around one year at the military position next to the camp for the internally displaced where he lived.…

UNMIL/PIO/PR/51 (Monrovia, Liberia) - The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), in collaboration with the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), has concluded a series of visits to educate and inform children associated with the fighting forces about the disarmament, demobilization, rehabilitation and…