Reports

Although UN Security Council resolution 1509 mandated that specific attention be paid to child and women combatants in Liberia's disarmament programs, the planners of the disarmament, demobilization, and rehabilitation program (DDR) failed to design the program to account adequately for…

Laurent Guepin/MONUC KINSHASA MONUC provides free water from Regideso in Kimbanseke to contain typhoid epidemic: MONUC's water trucking support for the supply of MSF's six water tanks scattered throughout the Commune of Kimbanseke really started efficiently this week. The Tunisian…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] MONROVIA, 25 January (IRIN) - The Liberian government has imposed a dusk to dawn curfew on Harper, a port town near the southeastern border with Cote d'Ivoire, following…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] ABIDJAN, 25 January (IRIN) - As the two camps in Cote d'Ivoire's simmering civil war dig in their heels refusing to budge for peace, members of the country's…

CHAD Security The Chadian Prime Minister conducted an extensive visit to eastern Chad. During his visit, he expressed concern over the deterioration of security, particularly in the Goz Beida area. He also expressed the Government's worries about the spill-over of the ethnic…

SG/SM/9682, AFR/1095 He also Underscores Need to Continue Fight against Corruption, Impunity Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's message to the Summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Accra, today, 19 January, as delivered by…

NKONDO, Uganda , Jan. 19 (UNHCR) Trapped between fighting on one side and an uneasy exile on the other, thousands of Congolese refugees have spent the past 10 days crossing back and forth between eastern Democratic Republic of the…

S/2005/35 I have the honour to refer to Security Council resolution 1579 (2004) concerning Liberia. In paragraph 8 of the resolution, the Council re-established the Panel of Experts for a further period, until 21 June 2005, to undertake the tasks set out…

14th December -17th January 2005 1. SIGNIFICANT EVENTS/ HIGHLIGHTS Since the 14th January, 17 cases of cholera have been reported from the hospital of Bouaké. MSF France reports that the outbreak of cholera has already caused 4 deaths. MSF together…

Basic Demographics of the Programme Beneficiaries The mean age of the XCs is about 26 years and most of them are between 18 and 34 years which indicates a youthful population. (pdf* - 706 KB)