El Alto Comisario de las Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados, Ant=F2nio Guterres, y la secretaria de Estado de Cooperación Internacional, Leire Pajín, acuerdan la futura puesta en marcha de un fondo de reserva para asistencia rápida a los refugiados en crisis humanitarias.

Madrid, 1 de junio de 2007. El Alto Comisario de las Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados, Ant=F2nio Guterres, y la Secretaria de Estado de Cooperación Internacional, Leire Pajín, firmaron hoy un documento de conclusiones que recoge las líneas generales de colaboración

Par DIOSSO OLIVIER

La France vole au secours des populations déplacées de l'Est de la République démocratique du Congo. Elle-même venant en appui au Programme alimentaire mondial qui puise de plus en plus dans ses stocks de vivres et autres biens, tant le nombre de déplacés augmente pratiquement au jour le jour.

L'ambassadeur de France en République démocratique du Congo (RDC), Bernard Prévost, a annoncé, le mercredi 30 mai dernier à Goma dans la province du Nord-Kivu, un don de deux millions d'euros au Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM), destiné à l'achat de

By Joe Bavier

KINSHASA, June 1 (Reuters) - War could break out again in the eastern provinces of Democratic Republic of Congo unless the Congolese army and United Nations peacekeepers intervene to prevent it, according to a senior Catholic Church official.

Monsignor Francois-Xavier Maroy, Archbishop of Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province, made the warning in a letter this week to France's ambassador to Congo. Rebels massacred 18 villagers in his province last weekend.

Despite an election last year which crowned

Introduction

Hungry people across the globe in desperate situations are reliant on WFP food. Here are this week's global hotspots.

Afghanistan

After a five truck convoy was attacked on May 24 and some 60 mt of food looted in Bala Murghab district of Badghis province, a police-escorted, 12 vehicle convoy was attacked on May 28 in Bakwa district of Farah province.

The attempt to loot the cargo resulted in the killing of two police escorts.

In yet another incident, this time in the southern province of Kandahar, a truck loaded with 40 mt of food was diverted and food looted.

KINSHASA, 31 May 2007 (IRIN) - Days after armed men, suspected to be Rwandan rebels, attacked villages in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), killing scores of people, civilians have fled their villages, aid workers said.

An assessment mission involving various United Nations agencies observed the movement of people from Kanyola towards Budodo and Walungu centre, said Kemal Saiki, spokesman for the United Nations Mission in Congo (MONUC).

"The displaced families spent the night in the Catholic parish of Kanyola, in the general hospital at Kanyola

Eoin Young / MONUC

In partnership with CAFCO (Framework for Congolese women), MONUC's Gender division organised a national consultation and evaluation workshop on the participation of women in DRC society in Kinshasa on 30 May 2007, with the aim of improving their representation in the forthcoming local elections to be held next year.

Head of MONUC's Gender Affairs division Amy Smythe explained that the Kinshasa workshop was a consolidation and validation of the recommendations formulated following 11 different workshops held in the provinces during the month of May.

Washington, DC, 31 May 2007 - The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) on Thursday welcomed US government contributions in May totaling $32.4 million to feed people confronting critical humanitarian situations ranging from severe drought to conflict in Kenya, Chad, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe and Colombia.

The latest series of major donations, from the Office of Food for Peace at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) , bring total American contributions to WFP operations for the

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Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's remarks at the Africa Day celebrations in New York today, 31 May:

I am delighted to welcome you to this celebration to mark Africa Day. Every year, Africa Day provides an appropriate opportunity to reflect on the continent's prospects, take stock of its problems, and acknowledge its achievements.

Through such initiatives as the New Partnership for Africa's Development and its Peer Review Mechanism, the leaders and

Washington DC, le 31 mai 2007. Le programme alimentaire mondial des Nations Unies (PAM) a remercié mardi le gouvernement des États-Unis pour leurs 32,4 millions de dollars de don en mai afin d'apporter de l'aide alimentaire aux personnes confrontées à des situations humanitaires critiques, allant des grandes sécheresses aux conflits au Kenya, au Tchad, en République Centrafricaine, en République Démocratique du Congo, au Zimbabwe et en Colombie.

Un donateur très généreux

Ce dernier don, de la part du Bureau pour la Nourriture et la Paix de l'Agence américaine pour le Développement