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17 Dec 1999

Angola + 6 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 50 covering the period 11-17 December 1999

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— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network for Southern Africa
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Fax: +27 11 880 1421
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ANGOLA: Southern offensive resumes

Angolan government forces this week resumed their offensive against UNITA rebels in the south of the country near the Namibian border in clashes which brought a new wave of refugees into Namibia.

The latest clashes come in the wake of a government offensive in October which forced UNITA to retreat towards

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03 Dec 1999

Angola + 9 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 48 covering the period 27 Nov - 03 Dec 1999

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U N I T E D N A T I O N S
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ZIMBABWE: Protest feared over pay rises for top officials

A government announcement this week of substantial pay rises for cabinet ministers, members of parliament, local chiefs and headmen as Zimbabwe's economy faces its worst crisis in two decades has drawn angry protests from critics of President Robert Mugabe.

An Extraordinary Government Gazette on

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30 Nov 1999

Angola + 4 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 30 November

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— IRIN
ZIMBABWE: Cholera outbreak
Eight people have died of cholera following an outbreak in the north of the country, the official daily, 'The Herald' reported on Tuesday.

The deaths were reported in Mashonaland West. The newspaper quoted health officials as saying 130 people had contracted the disease over the past month.

ZIMBABWE: Foreign currency restrictions

Zimbabwean exporters holding corporate foreign currency accounts will have to change half their holdings into local currency within 60 days under a plan by Finance Minister Herbert

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25 Nov 1999

Angola + 5 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 25 November

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— IRIN
SOUTH AFRICA: HIV prevalent in mines
South Africa's deputy minerals and energy minister was reported as saying about 45 percent of miners are infected with HIV, and warned that the industry would face a severe labour shortage if the epidemic was not brought under control.

Addressing the launch of an AIDS awareness project for the mining industry, Susan Shabangu said: "We will experience a situation in which the productive population will not have the physical energy and or ability to perform their daily tasks."

South Africa's mining industry employs

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15 Nov 1999

Angola + 5 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 15 November

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ZAMBIA: British police to assist assassination probe
A team of British Scotland Yard police investigators will assist Zambian authorities in their investigation of the murder of former President Kenneth Kaunda's son, Wezi, news reports said on Monday.

A spokesman of the ministry of home affairs said the British government had agreed to help with the investigation following a request by the Kaunda family. Wezi Kaunda was shot dead outside his hom in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, on 3 November. Two suspects appeared in court to face charges and have been remanded in custody.

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05 Nov 1999

Angola + 6 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 44 covering the period 30 Oct to 5 Nov 1999

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UNITED NATIONS
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ANGOLA: Malanje remains an emergency

A "nutritional emergency" continues in the northern Angolan city of Malanje, despite three months of uninterrupted food supplies to the formerly besieged government-held provincial capital, the humanitarian community has warned.

During the past three months, food distribution

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29 Oct 1999

Angola + 11 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 43 covering the period 23-29 Oct 1999

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— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
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ANGOLA: Pretoria committed to closing sanctions loopholes

The South African government is working on legislation to provide greater oversight of a traditionally secretive banking industry, sources close to the UN's Panel of Experts on Angola Sanctions told IRIN, this week.

In a briefing to the South African parliament

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23 Oct 1999

Angola + 9 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 42 covering the period 16-23 Oct 1999

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UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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ANGOLA: WFP needs US $158 million for year 2000

The World Food Programme said this week that it would "consider" asking donors for US $158 million to cover its humanitarian operations in Angola for the next year. The WFP-Angola appeal document for the year 2000, based on a May assessment which estimated

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20 Oct 1999

Angola + 2 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 20 October

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BOTSWANA: Mogae sworn in as president
President Festus Mogae of Botswana was been sworn into office on Wednesday, following his party's victory in last Saturday's general elections.

In a televised ceremony, President Mogae told crowds at his inauguration ceremony that his government's main objective would be to fight poverty and unemployment. This will be Mogae's first full term in office. Mogae took over from Ketumile Masire, who stepped down as president last year.

ANGOLA: Concern for detained journalist

The Committee to Protect Journalists

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15 Oct 1999

Angola + 6 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 41 covering the period 9-15 October 1999

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UNITED NATIONS
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ANGOLA: Army moving on UNITA stronghold

The UNITA rebel movement, under pressure from an Angolan army offensive, is attempting to withdraw its forces from its key central highlands military and air supply base in Andulo, Western diplomats and security analysts told IRIN this week.

They said government forces were now

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13 Oct 1999

Mozambique + 3 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 13 October

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— IRIN
MOZAMBIQUE: Four candidates to fight for the presidency
Four candidates have registered for the December presidential elections, a Mozambican electoral official was quoted by news reports as saying. They are: President Joaquim Chissano of the governing FRELIMO party, Afonso Dhlakama of the country's main opposition party Renamo, Yaqub Sibindi of the smaller Pimo party and Wehia Ripua, leader of the Mozambican Opposition Union.

The parliamentary and presidential elections will run concurrently on 3 and 4 December. Mozambique held its first democratic

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12 Oct 1999

Angola + 5 others
Southern Africa: IRIN news briefs, 12 October

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— IRIN
ZIMBABWE: New party urges conditional aid grants only Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of a new opposition party in Zimbabwe called the Movement for Democratic Change, has urged European donor governments not to grant further aid to his country unless it is conditional on good governance and respect for human rights.
In an interviewed carried by the South African daily, 'Business Day', at the end of a European visit, Tsvangirai after meetings with Dutch, German, British and other European officials that they should get tougher with President Robert Mugabe. He cited mismanagement
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08 Oct 1999

Angola + 5 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 40 covering the period 2-8 October 1999

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UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network for Southern Africa
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ANGOLA: De Beers stops all Angolan diamond purchases

The giant South African-based diamond house De Beers, announced this week that it had placed a world-wide embargo on the purchase of diamonds from Angola in support of "the UN attempt to bring peace and stability" to the war-torn country.

In a statement, the company said it was

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24 Sep 1999

Angola + 8 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 37 covering the period 18 - 24 September 1999

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— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network
for Southern Africa
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ANGOLA: Conditions for displaced persons deteriorate

In its latest update on the situation in Angola, the United Nations Humanitarian Assistance Coordination Unit (UCAH) said this week that the general situation in the country remained unstable with increased military operations in several areas, resulting in the continued movement of people to more secure areas.

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17 Sep 1999

Afghanistan + 26 others
FAO/GIEWS: Food Outlook No. 4, 1999

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HIGHLIGHTS
The outlook for 1999 cereal production has improved slightly since June, due mainly to better crop prospects in Asia and North America. World production, however, will not be sufficient to meet anticipated consumption requirements and global stocks will need to be drawn down.

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10 Sep 1999

Zimbabwe + 8 others
Southern Africa: IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 36 covering the period 4 September - 10 September 1999

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UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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for Southern Africa
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ZIMBABWE: New political party to be launched

The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) and civic groups will on Saturday launch the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) as a political party which aims to challenge the ruling ZANU-PF of Robert Mugabe in next year's parliamentary elections.

The 'Zimbabwe Independent' said the ZCTU's

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09 Sep 1999

Angola + 3 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 9 September

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AFRICA: AIDS overtakes malaria as prime killer
More than two-thirds of the estimated 33.4 million people in the world living with HIV/AIDS are in sub-Saharan Africa, according to latest figures by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNAIDS.

For the first time, AIDS this year outstripped malaria as the prime source of health-related death in Africa, AFP reported. According to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), in eastern and southern Africa, AIDS is now claiming more lives than warfare, the continent's traditional scourge.

"AIDS has been around for only 20

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27 Aug 1999

Angola + 3 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 27 August

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ANGOLA: Panel begins work on enforcing sanctions
A panel of arms and finance experts have started their task of enforcing UN sanctions against the UNITA rebel movement in Angola, media reports said on Friday.

Canada's UN ambassador, Robert Fowler, who heads the sanctions committee, was quoted as saying that the group hoped to make it more difficult for UNITA leader, Jonas Savimbi, to sell diamonds so that he can buy arms and oil for his troops. "Our objective is to try to limit Savimbi's ability to make war," he said. Fowler

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30 Jul 1999

Angola + 10 others
FEWS Special Report: Southern Africa Cereal Availability Update (99-2)

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— US Agency for International Development


Southern Africa Cereal Availability Update
Satisfactory except in Angola, Tanzania and Zimbabwe

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26 Jul 1999

Angola + 6 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News briefs, 26 July

Report
— IRIN
ANGOLA: UNITA communique claims military successes
The Angolan UNITA rebel movement said in a statement to the media at the weekend that it had killed 68 government soldiers in battles with government forces during the past week.

In a report which was not independently verified and which did not carry details of any casualties its own forces may have suffered, UNITA said it had killed 28 government soldiers when they ambushed a convoy 14 km north of the besieged central highlands city of Huambo on 20 July. The following day, it said 21 government soldiers

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