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01 Jan 2002

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

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13 Dec 2001

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

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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
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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

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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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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
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23 Nov 2001

Angola + 8 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 46 covering the period 17 - 23 Nov 2001

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UNITED NATIONS
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ZIMBABWE: European Union snubbed by Mugabe

Zimbabwe found itself further isolated internationally this week when a European Union (EU) delegation said it had failed to hold constructive talks with President Robert Mugabe on Friday 23 November, and that its relations with the country had reached a "critical point".

"Our relations are now at a critical

IRIN:

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22 Nov 2001

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

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HIGH LEVEL OF IMPORTS STILL NEEDED TO MEET CEREAL REQUIREMENTS

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26 Oct 2001

Angola + 8 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 42 covering the period 20 - 26 Oct 2001

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— IRIN


UNITED NATIONS
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ZIMBABWE: Commonwealth visit could lead to further isolation

A significant development in Zimbabwe this week was the arrival on Wednesday (24 October) of a Commonwealth mission charged with monitoring September's Abuja agreement. The visit came as farming organisations and civic groups said that state-backed invasions of white-owned farms had escalated despite the deal the government signed in Nigeria pledging to end the land crisis.

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24 Oct 2001

Angola + 10 others
FEWS Southern Africa Food Security Update: 24 Oct 2001

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1. NEAR-NORMAL RAINS FORECAST FOR 2001/2002 RAINFALL SEASON

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19 Oct 2001

Angola + 6 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 41 covering the period 13 - 19 Oct 2001

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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: Ceasefire before 'humanitarian corridors'

The United Nations Security Council this week asked Angola's warring parties to grant humanitarian workers access to at-risk communities, saying it is deeply concerned about humanitarian conditions in the country. UN statistics indicate at least 500,000 Angolans

IRIN:

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18 Oct 2001

Angola + 2 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 18 October

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— IRIN
ZIMBABWE: Government declares new minimum wage
President Robert Mugabe's Cabinet has legislated minimum wages for Zimbabwean industry without reaching agreement with labour and business, the 'Financial Gazette' reported on Thursday. The minimum wages, which were still under discussion in the Tripartite negotiating Forum (TNF), were gazetted together with new price controls at the end of last week and were effective from 1 October.

"TNF was in the middle of negotiations on price monitoring and minimum wages," the Business Leaders' Forum

IRIN:

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16 Oct 2001

Angola + 5 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 16 October

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SOUTH AFRICA: Expulsion of Zimbabwean workers temporarily halted
A South African court on Monday ordered the government to temporarily halt the expulsion of Zimbabwean workers from farms in the country's Northern Province which borders Zimbabwe. A spokesman for the Agricultural Union of South Africa (Agri-SA) told IRIN on Tuesday that three farmers' associations won a court interdict against the expulsion of an estimated 5,500 workers. "The judge ordered the department of home affairs and the farmers to meet and try and find some
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28 Sep 2001

Angola + 7 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 38 covering the period 22 - 28 Sep 2001

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— IRIN
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Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network
ANGOLA: UNITA attacks power station near Luanda

Suspected UNITA rebels attacked a power station on the outskirts of the Angolan capital, Luanda, early on Tuesday - bringing the rebel movement's current wave of attacks closer to the capital than ever before.

An explosion took place at the substation in the Viana municipality, about 20 km from the centre of Luanda. A gun battle ensued between the attackers and soldiers of the Angolan Armed Forces

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21 Sep 2001

Angola + 9 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 37 covering the period 15 - 21 Sep 2001

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

ZIMBABWE: Food shortages warning

Rural Zimbabweans are facing a "desperate" food security situation due to a combination of a bad harvest and deepening poverty that has exhausted household coping mechanisms, development workers told IRIN this week. In Matebeleland, according to the available data, "people are already cutting down to one meal a day", Ed

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14 Sep 2001

Angola + 5 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 14 September

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COMORES: Anjouan doctors strike over "deplorable" conditions
Public hospital doctors on the separatist island of Anjouan went on strike to protest against "deplorable conditions" of life and work, a strike organiser said on Friday. An AFP report quoted Dr Ahmed Abdallah as saying that the work stoppage which began on Thursday was expected to last until Sunday. However, he warned that if doctors' demands were not met by then, an open-ended strike would begin next Wednesday, the report said.

"If our claims are not met, we will

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14 Sep 2001

Angola + 7 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 36 covering the period 08 - 14 Sep 2001

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UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network for Southern Africa
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ZIMBABWE: SADC leaders meet in Harare

President Robert Mugabe faced his harshest critics this week at a regional summit that took five other heads of state to Harare in a bid to stem Zimbabwe's political troubles. The leaders of Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe met behind

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10 Sep 2001

Angola + 5 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 10 September

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— IRIN
MOZAMBIQUE: WFP update
Preliminary results from a government crop and food assessment at the end of August indicated there would be "several pockets" of food insecurity in the country which would need some kind of relief intervention by the end of the year, WFP said in its latest emergency report.

WFP spokesman in Maputo, Inyene Udoyen, told IRIN on Monday that the government's disaster authority - the INGC - had selected several districts in the Maputo, Gaza, Inhambane, Sofala, Manica and Tete provinces for the assessment. The update said WFP was already

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06 Sep 2001

Angola + 10 others
Southern Africa: Region to meet cereal needs

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JOHANNESBURG, 6 September (IRIN) - Southern Africa's cereal consumption requirements would be "more than met" this marketing season, according to the latest report by USAID's Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS-Net).
In it's regional food security update published on 23 August, FEWS Southern Africa said that according to official government production estimates, total production would meet approximately 80.5 percent
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05 Sep 2001

Angola + 10 others
FEWS Southern Africa Food Security Update: 23 Aug 2001

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— US Agency for International Development


1. Regional Cereal Production And Stocks Will Meet Requirements

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04 Sep 2001

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

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— 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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