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01 Jan 2002

Botswana + 15 others
OCHA Regional Disaster Response Advisor for Southern Africa 2002

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— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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21 Dec 2001

Angola + 8 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 50 covering the period 15 - 21 Dec 2001

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— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network
IRIN-SA
Tel: +27 11 880-4633
Fax: +27 11 447-5472
Email: IRIN-SA@irin.org.za

ZAMBIA: Controversial general elections

Zambia's preparations for general elections at the end of the month have come in for a hammering by international observers. They said that voter apathy and "disenfranchisement" could effect the democratic process. Zambians are scheduled to go to the polls on 27 December to elect a new president, members of parliament, and municipal

IRIN:

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14 Dec 2001

Angola + 6 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 49 covering the period 8 - 14 Dec 2001

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— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network
IRIN-SA
Tel: +27 11 880-4633
Fax: +27 11 447-5472
Email: IRIN-SA@irin.org.za

ZIMBABWE: Opposition leader freed after short detention

Opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai was detained in a dawn raid and released without charge on Friday 14 December as the ruling ZANU-PF opened its annual conference to prepare for presidential elections in March.

Tsvangirai's arrest came a day after

IRIN:

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13 Dec 2001

Angola + 11 others
FEWS Southern Africa Regional Flood Watch 13 Dec 2001

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— US Agency for International Development
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With above normal rains forecast for much of the SADC region, this issue of the Regional Flood Watch reports the onset of the rains, the likelihood of floods this season and the current state of flood preparedness in the region. The RRSU and FEWS NET will be issuing periodic Regional Flood Watch reports on an ad hoc basis throughout the 2001/2002 season.
1. 2001/2002 SEASON BEGINS WITH GOOD RAINFALL IN MOST AREAS

Satellite imagery from METEOSAT confirm a good start to the 2001/2002 rainfall season in most areas of the region.

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12 Dec 2001

Angola + 10 others
Southern Africa: IRIN Focus on regional food supplies

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— IRIN
[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations]
JOHANNESBURG, 12 December (IRIN) - Recent heavy rains over large parts of South Africa are unlikely to affect maize exports to the rest of the region, an economist with Grain-SA told IRIN on Wednesday.

"The heavy rains that we have been experiencing in recent weeks is likely to affect the new crop and not the old crop. Our [South Africa's] maize exports would come from the old crop," the economist said.

Recent media reports said heavy rains

IRIN:

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07 Dec 2001

Angola + 9 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 48 covering the period 1 - 7 Dec 2001

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— IRIN


UNITED NATIONS
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IRIN-SA
Tel: +27 11 880-4633
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Email: IRIN-SA@irin.org.za

ZIMBABWE: Mugabe seeks support

The South African presidency said this week that it had not yet received an official request for a meeting with the Zimbabwean government in spite of reports that President Robert Mugabe wanted an urgent summit over South Africa's waning support for his policies.

IRIN:

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05 Dec 2001

Angola + 9 others
Southern Africa: IFRC appeals for US $13 million

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— IRIN
JOHANNESBURG, 5 December (IRIN) - The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is appealing for more than US $13 million to fund its humanitarian programmes in southern Africa.
A statement from the IFRC's regional delegation in Harare on Wednesday said that the IFRC had allocated US $44 million to programmes in Africa. In its global appeal, launched in Geneva on Tuesday 4 December, the IFRC said that it needed US $162 million to
IRIN:

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29 Nov 2001

Angola + 13 others
Beyond Afghanistan: Humanitarian aid to refugees worldwide faces $126 million funding crisis

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— US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
The international community is responding with laudably generous financial contributions to assist refugees from Afghanistan, but refugee relief programs in most other regions of the world are begging for adequate financial support in the final weeks of 2001, particularly in Africa.
Funding channeled through the UN refugee agency during 2001 for worldwide refugee assistance and protection currently faces a $126 million shortfall for the world's 14 million refugees as well as 2 million former refugees who have only recently returned home. The
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22 Nov 2001

Angola + 10 others
FEWS Southern Africa Food Security Update: 22 Nov 2001

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— US Agency for International Development
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HIGH LEVEL OF IMPORTS STILL NEEDED TO MEET CEREAL REQUIREMENTS

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16 Nov 2001

Angola + 6 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 45 covering the period 10 - 16 Nov 2001

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— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network
IRIN-SA
Tel: +27 11 880-4633
Fax: +27 11 447-5472
Email: IRIN-SA@irin.org.za

ZAMBIA: Millions in need of food aid

As a result of bad weather across much of southern Africa this year, millions of Zambians are in serious need of food aid, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) announced on Friday 16 November.

"The country is reeling from two freak acts of nature. So far too much rain in some areas, and barely a

IRIN:

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09 Nov 2001

Angola + 8 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 44 covering the period 3 - 9 Nov 2001

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— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network
IRIN-SA
Tel: +27 11 880-4633
Fax: +27 11 447-5472
Email: IRIN-SA@irin.org.za

ANGOLA: Young men face conscription

Fear gripped thousands of young men across Angola this week as the defence ministry ordered all men born in 1979 and 1980 to report for military duty or be punished. According to a ministry statement quoted by Angolan government radio on Wednesday 7 November, conscripts should report to recruitment centres. The statement also said the call-up

IRIN:

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10 Oct 2001

Algeria + 16 others
IRIN Update 1284 for the Great Lakes

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— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network
for Central and Eastern Africa
Tel: +254 2 622147
Fax: +254 2 622129
e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org

DRC: Preliminary inter-Congolese dialogue to begin Monday

The facilitator of the inter-Congolese peace and reconciliation dialogue, former Botswanan President Ketumile Masire, on Tuesday denied there were plans to postpone talks following the opening ceremony on Monday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

"The reports are simply not true.

IRIN:

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02 Oct 2001

Angola + 8 others
Southern Africa: Countries face mixed economic fortunes

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— IRIN
JOHANNESBURG, 2 October (IRIN) - The latest economic forecasting from the London-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) shows that most southern African countries are facing mixed economic fortunes.
In Zambia, the EIU noted that the economy was slowly becoming more service orientated despite recent investments in copper. "Zambia's comparative advantage is abundant fertile land suitable for agriculture, coupled with large water resources," said the EIU. "HIPC (the Heavily Indebted Poor Country Initiative) debt
IRIN:

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04 Sep 2001

Angola + 11 others
FEWS Southern Africa Food Security Update: 04 Sep 2001

Report
— US Agency for International Development


1. Meeting Maize Requirements In SADC -Figure 1
At the regional level, 2000/2001 maize production will meet only 87% of consumption requirements. However, when opening stock levels at the start of the 2001/02 marketing year are added, regional maize requirements are fully met, with a small surplus.

2. Meeting Maize Requirements In SADC - Figure 2

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31 Aug 2001

Angola + 8 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 34 covering the period 25 - 31 Aug 2001

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— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network
ZIMBABWE: Mass displacements lead to widespread suffering

Zimbabwe could face a humanitarian crisis in commercial farming districts where hundreds of thousands of farm workers have been displaced, agencies reported on Friday. One of the hardest hit areas is Hwedza district in Mashonaland East province. The Hwedza Farming Association this week confirmed sweeping displacements. A spokesman for the organisation said workers at 18 commercial farms had been driven out

IRIN:

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31 Aug 2001

Botswana + 2 others
Africa: IRIN HIV/AIDS Weekly issue 42, 31 August

Report
— IRIN
NEWS:
AFRICA: HIV/AIDS could orphan third of Africa's children

Up to one third of children in Southern and East African countries could be orphaned by HIV/AIDS by 2010, the head of a South African charity told the International Forum for Child Welfare (IFCW) in Ireland this week, SAPA reported on Friday.

"By 2010, between 20 percent and 35 percent of all children under 15 in eleven countries of Eastern and Southern Africa will be missing their mother, father or both of their parents," Sibongile Mthembu-Mkhabela, chief executive officer of the Nelson Mandela

IRIN:

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17 Aug 2001

Angola + 9 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 32 covering the period 11 - 17 Aug 2001

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— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network for Southern Africa
Tel: +27 11 880 4633
Fax: +27 11 880 1421
e-mail: irin-sa@irin.org.za

SOUTHERN AFRICA: SADC to send task force to Zimbabwe

The South African Development Community (SADC) on Tuesday established a five-country task force to facilitate dialogue in Zimbabwe to help resolve the country's political and economic crisis, but analysts contacted by IRIN said they were concerned it could be too

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15 Aug 2001

Angola + 8 others
Southern Africa: SADC to act on expected food shortages

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— IRIN
JOHANNESBURG, 15 August (IRIN) - The Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit has directed its agricultural ministers to meet as soon as possible to examine the region's food security and to develop a regional response to pending shortages.
Saying that the region's food security was greatly influenced by weather conditions, civil strife and national policies, the summit projected a combined all-cereals deficit of 3.87 million mt for the 2001/2002 marketing year, compared to a small surplus of 583,000 mt for the previous year. According to a communique released on Tuesday
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10 Aug 2001

Botswana + 3 others
Africa: IRIN HIV/AIDS Weekly issue 39, 10 August

Report
— IRIN
NEWS:
BOTSWANA: Behaviour blamed for high HIV/AIDS infection rate

Despite poverty being identified as one of the underlying factors which expose people to HIV/AIDS, Beruki Hawaz of the AIDS/STD Unit in Gaborone told participants at a HIV/AIDS workshop that behaviour is the main reason why it has been difficult to control the spread of HIV in the country, the newspaper 'Mmegi' reported on Friday. Hawaz was addressing an HIV/AIDS awareness workshop attended by representatives from the agricultural sector when he told participants that in the long

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27 Jul 2001

Botswana + 5 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 27 July

Report
— IRIN
ZAMBIA: Food shortages loom say farmers
Zambia was expected to experience a huge shortage of maize, the country's staple food, the Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) said on Thursday. "A maize shortage is expected this year. ZNFU estimates a shortfall of 120,000 to 150,000 mt," Songowayo Zyambo, ZNFU executive director, was quoted saying in an AFP report.

According to the report, the Zambian government had no official estimates of the shortfall, but had set up a committee to find solutions to the crisis to prevent market distortions

IRIN:

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