Reports

SC/7653, AFR/552 Following is today's statement to the press on Burundi by Security Council President Jean-Marc de La Sablière (France): Members of the Council welcomed the signing on 25 and 27 January of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Transitional Government and…

New York, Jan 30 2003 3:00PM - Members of the United Nations Security Council today welcomed the recent moves in Burundi by the Government and rebel leaders towards settling the nation's ongoing conflict. The current President of the Council, Ambassador Jean-Marc…

Justices of the Peace and their clerks and bailiffs are receiving intensive training this month for duty in rural locations during the critical post-conflict period in Sierra Leone. The Office of the Chief Justice developed the programme with the UNDP…

Issues Addressed Include Employment, Wages, Access to Education, Marriage and Family Law WOM/1383 Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women 607th Meeting* (PM) Since ratifying the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in 1983, the Republic of the…

Over 1,000,000 displaced in Côte d'Ivoire, 80% of whom are women and children Over 150,000 people have already crossed into neighboring countries, straining already weak social service systems US$ 5.7 million needed to cover emergency health, nutrition and…

Freetown/Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has reunited ten Liberian children living as refugees in Sierra Leone with their families in Liberia. This is the first such cross-border reunification since tensions in Liberia started more…

SG/SM/8590 AFR/548 Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the opening of the Conference of Heads of State on Côte d'Ivoire in Paris on 25 January: We are gathered here today to ratify the agreement ending the conflict which…

Under-Secretary-General Olara A. Otunnu, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, has been invited to address the twenty-sixth ordinary Summit of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African…

IHA/751 NEW YORK, 27 January (OCHA) - On the morning of Saturday, 25 January, the Secretary-General's Humanitarian Envoy for the crisis in Côte d'Ivoire, Carolyn McAskie, visited the Abidjan shantytown of Washington, following reports that residents there had been beaten and…

BANGUI, 27 January (IRIN) - The Central African Republic (CAR) government has been fighting supporters of the former army chief of staff, Francois Bozize, since 25 October 2002 when they invaded the capital, Bangui. Aided by Libyan troops and an…