Reports

15th - 31st March 2004 1. SIGNIFICANT EVENTS/ HIGHLIGHTS Political tensions culminated on Thursday the 25th March when the protest march planned by opposition parties pushing for the full implementation of the Linas Marcoussis peace accord, was violently disrupted by President…

S/2004/272 I. Introduction 1. In paragraph 1 of its resolution 1478 (2003) of 6 May 2003, the Security Council decided that the Government of Liberia had not complied fully with the demands set out in resolution 1343 (2001), in which the Council…

Trauma Awareness and Recovery Trainings, School Safe Zones, Eminent Persons Mediation are Signature Programs New York, NY -- As Church World Service rolled out plans to its board of directors last week for a multi-year Africa Initiative, the global humanitarian…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA)Note: The last situation report was dated February 3, 2004. Background Liberia has been marked by intermittent civil war since Charles…

FY 2004 Budget - $7,900,000 Background The U.S. Agency for International Development's Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) began its Burundi Program in March 2002 in response to the August 2001 signing of the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement (APRA) by 17…

Program Description The Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) supports the ongoing peace process in Burundi as outlined in the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Accord (APRA) by promoting community-level reintegration and reconciliation through community-based leadership development, vocational skills training, small-scale infrastructure reconstruction, and…

Program Description USAID/OTI's Liberian Transition Initiative (LTI) program was launched in April 2004 to help consolidate the gains of the Accra Peace Accord signed between Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD), the Movement for Democracy in Liberia (MODEL), and the…

Amount of decision: 4,000,000 EUR Decision reference number: ECHO/TCD/BUD/2004/01000 Explanatory Memorandum 1 - Rationale, needs and target population: 1.1. - Rationale: Fighting between the Government of Sudan and the rebel groups, the Sudanese Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM),…

Nearly 300,000 Sierra Leonean refugees have returned home in recent years: As the confidence of Sierra Leone's people increases, organised repatriation is now entering its final stages. The UN refugee agency is implementing projects to help communities absorb returning refugees, particularly…

SC/8047, AFR/878 Following is today's press statement by Security Council President Jean-Marc de La Sablière (France) on the Democratic Republic of the Congo: The members of the Security Council heard this morning a briefing by the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping, on the situation…