Reports

MONROVIA, June 14 (Reuter) - Up to 8,000 civilians fleeing clashes between rival factions in western Liberia have arrived at a displaced persons' camp outside the capital Monrovia, aid workers said on Friday. But in Monrovia itself two commercial vessels docked…

C. LIBERIA AND SIERRA LEONE 1. Liberia a) ECOMOG deployment complete in Schiefflin although minor clashes reported between government and faction forces. b) First phase of the WFP expanded feeding programme in Monrovia completed with 64 communities served. 2. Sierra Leone a) Peace talks…

D. EAST AFRICA: REGIONAL OPERATION FOR BURUNDI, RWANDA, ZAIRE AND TANZANIA 1. Burundi a) Following the death of three ICRC staff members, NGOs suspend non-emergency activities for one week in a measure of solidarity and mourning. Remaining ICRC staff leave Burundi. b)…

General: The humanitarian community in Burundi reacted with deep shock to the murder in an ambush of three ICRC delegates in Cibitoke Province on Tuesday, 4 June as they were returning from an evaluation mission to Mugina. Following the assassination of…

BUJUMBURA, June 13 (Reuter) - Burundi's army said on Thursday it killed 50 Hutu rebels in an attack on a training camp and an army report blamed rebels for killing three Swiss aid workers. ''With the help of the…

By Mark Dodd NAIROBI, June 12 (Reuter) - Several international aid groups owed on Wednesday to stay on in war-torn Burundi despite the evacuation of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) staff following the killing of three of their…

By Harry Mouzalas MONROVIA, June 11 (Reuter) - Ethnic Krahn fighters agreed on Tuesday to disarm and leave an army barracks at the centre of recent fighting in Liberia's six-year-old civil war, a statement by the Krahn's ULIMO-J militia said.…

By Christian Jennings BUJUMBURA, June 11 (Reuter) - The last eight foreign staff of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) left Burundi on Tuesday in the latest of a series of evacuations amid growing insecurity. The eight Swiss ICRC…

In an unprecedented move, Oxfam, along with 12 other aid agencies, has reluctantly refused to re-establish a major humanitarian operation in war-torn Liberia until security improves enough to allow the safe delivery of desperately needed aid. Despite the grave plight…