Indonesia
Liaising with aid agencies to assess humanitarian needs among people displaced by violence on the island of Timor.

Sierra Leone

Providing nutritional feeding to over 700 severely malnourished and 2,500 moderately malnourished children in hospitals in Kenema and Blama.

Running an 80-bed temporary children's hospital for nutritional feeding and emergency treatment of diseases such as cholera in Freetown.

Re-establishing and restocking one hospital and 18 health centres in Kenema and Bo districts in eastern Sierra Leone

This report includes: A) Indonesia - East Timor B) Angola C) Somalia D) East and Central Africa: Burundi, Tanzania, D.R. Congo and Congo/Brazzaville.
From Manuel Aranda da Silva, Chief, Technical Support Service. Available on the WFP Home Page at http://www.wfp.org/ or by electronic mail from Deborah.Hicks@wfp.org or Natasha.Nadazdin@wfp.org (fax 39 06 6513 2854). For information on resources, donors are requested to contact Aleesa.Blum@wfp.org or Marius.deGaayFortman@wfp.org at WFP Rome,

A/54/430

Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 112

Promotion and protection of the rights of children Protection of children affected by armed conflict Note by the Secretary-General The Secretary-General has the honour to transmit to the members of the General Assembly, in accordance with section VIII of Assembly resolution 53/128 of 9 December 1998, the report prepared by Olara A. Otunnu, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict.

Annex

59/99 Annex b
International Development Secretary Clare Short today announces the Department for International Development (DFID) will provide an additional £20 million to the fight against polio.

What is Polio?

Poliomyelitis is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. It mainly affects children under three. It invades the nervous system and can cause paralysis in a matter of hours. Polio is incurable and its effects are irreversible.

What is the extent of the problem?

Of the 10-20 million people world-wide

SC/6736
The West was prepared to spend $40 billion to fight a war in the Balkans, and less than 1 per cent of that to save the lives of tens of millions in Africa, the representative of Nigeria told the Security Council at the end of its two-day open debate on the situation in Africa.

A Summary of Emergency Health Programmes in Sona Bata, Ngidinga, Luozi and Mangembo health zones - Bas Congo, Western DRC
Ongoing Activities

Essential drugs, medical materials have been supplied to four health centres and two referral hospitals in Sona Bata health zone

Essential drugs, materials and technical support have been provided to six health centres and one referral hospital in Ngidinga health zone

A training programme for joint community and health centre staff motivation and management systems has been successfully conducted in Sona Bata and Ngidinga health zones

Food Situation in Angola Slightly Improved: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is to begin a nutritional survey in Malanje at the end of this week in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, UNICEF, and other non-governmental organizations. Doctors Without Borders is currently running seven feeding centers in the besieged city. A total of 1,500 children are receiving therapeutic feeding in six of these centers, and an additional center is providing supplementary feeding. The nutritional situation has improved slightly now that the road is open between

SC/6734
Meeting to Resume Tomorrow

"Africa fatigue" was an affront to the very idea of a responsible international community, Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the Security Council as it convened an open meeting this morning on the situation in Africa.

The meeting, which will resume tomorrow, was held to review the implementation of the recommendations contained in the Secretary-General's April 1998 report on the causes of conflict and promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa.

GA/9616
"Rwanda demonstrates what Kosovo might have become, had we not intervened in 1999 and Kosovo demonstrates what Rwanda might have been, had we intervened in 1994", Bronislaw Geremek, the Foreign Minister of Poland, told the General Assembly this afternoon as it continued its general debate.

"We have learned that what should not repeat itself is the unacceptable inaction which occurred in the past", he stressed. Could the new outbreaks of conflict in Kosovo and East Timor have been averted and was there the political will to head them off in