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17 Dec 1999

Guinea + 4 others
IRIN Update 618 of events in West Africa

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UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network
for West Africa
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GUINEA: Growing calls for Conde's release

There is growing pressure on Guinea's government to release opposition politician Alpha Conde who has been in prison for just over a year, Reuters reported on Thursday.

Conde's lawyers have said they have not yet received full details of the charges against the politician, whose

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17 Dec 1999

Guinea + 4 others
Bulletin d'information No. 618 pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest

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NATIONS UNIES
Bureau de coordination des affaires humanitaires
IRIN pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest
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GUINEE: La pression monte pour faire libérer Condé

De plus en plus de voix s'élèvent pour exiger du gouvernement guinéen la libération du dirigeant de l'opposition, Alpha Condé, emprisonné depuis un peu plus d'un an, a rapporté jeudi l'agence Reuter.

Les avocats de M. Condé affirment qu'ils n'ont toujours pas reçu tous les détails des charges qui pèsent contre

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10 Dec 1999

Angola + 11 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 49 covering the period 4 - 10 Dec 1999

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UNITED NATIONS
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Integrated Regional Information Network for Southern Africa
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ZIMBABWE: Protest march planned

Opponents of President Robert Mugabe, said this week they were planning a series of nationwide marches at the weekend to protest against a new draft constitution they say is flawed in favour of his ruling ZANU-PF party despite months of soliciting public opinion over a new constitution.

Morgan Tsvangirai, general secretary

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08 Dec 1999

Angola + 4 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 8 December

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ZAMBIA: Holbrooke seeks DRC mediator
Richard Holbrooke, US ambassador to the United Nations, said on Wednesday the main aim of his current African tour is to find a "facilitator" to bring together the parties in the Congo civil war.

"The main point is that we are trying to find a facilitator," Holbrooke told reporters after meeting Zambian President Frederick Chiluba, who played a key role negotiating July's fragile peace accord. Chiluba said Organisation of African Unity (OAU)leaders will meet in Addis Ababa next week to discuss names from an undisclosed list.

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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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01 Dec 1999

Angola + 2 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 1 December

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ANGOLA: New currency launched
The Angolan Central Bank on Wednesday launched a new currency, the kwanza, as part of a monetary reform program to simplify small transactions, news reports said.

The reports quoted Aguinaldo Jaime, the central bank governor, as saying the authorities wanted to do away with the public having to use large wads of the old currency, the readjusted kwanza, when making small purchases. The largest denomination of the new currency will be five kwanzas, which is worth 5 million readjusted kwanzas.

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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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12 Nov 1999

Angola + 5 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 45 covering the period 06 - 12 Nov 1999

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U N I T E D N A T I O N S
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ZIMBABWE: Public health system hit by nurses strike

Nurses employed in Zimbabwe's public health sector went on strike over better pay and working conditions this week throwing the service into fresh disarray a week after the country's junior doctors ended a similar six-week action.

Sources in the Zimbabwe capital, Harare,

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11 Nov 1999

Angola + 3 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 11 November

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MALAWI: Team of observers sent to DRC
The Malawi government has sent a 10-member ceasefire observer team to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), media reports said on Thursday.

The group flew first to the Zambian capital Lusaka for a "strategic training" course which has been sponsored by the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) before being deployed in the DRC capital, Kinshasa. "We will not take sides. We will advise both soldiers belonging to the government camp and the rebels on the importance of keeping the peace," a Malawian army officer was quoted as

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10 Nov 1999

Angola + 3 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 10 November

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ZIMBABWE: Nurses go on strike
A week after striking doctors returned to work, the majority of Zimbabwe's 9,000 government nurses have gone on strike demanding higher salaries and better working conditions, AFP reported on Wednesday.

In a dispatch quoting Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA), it said 6,000 nurses began the action on Monday. The remaining 3,000 nurses, mostly in the capital Harare, were undecided as their hospitals struggle to make up for lost time caused by the doctors' strike, according to ZINA spokeswoman Stella Zengwa.

ANGOLA: Zimbabwe defence minister

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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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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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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
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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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03 Sep 1999

Angola + 7 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 35 covering the period 28 Aug - 3 Sep 1999

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ANGOLA: Humanitarian situation remains dramatic

The UN Humanitarian Assistance Coordination Unit (UCAH) has warned that the humanitarian situation in Angola remains critical, despite the efforts of relief agencies to reach affected populations.

In their latest report UCAH said that between 23-29 August heavy fighting in several parts of the country had

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01 Sep 1999

Angola + 3 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 1 September

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ANGOLA: Angolan cities cut off
Two Angolan coastal cities are virtually cut off from the rest of the country because of fighting between the UNITA rebel movement and government forces.

According to the independent 'Radio Ecclesia', UNITA rebels reportedly blew up two bridges on roads that link the cities of Benguela and Lobito. The report said that UNITA had also staged a number of ambushes along the roads. Road links from Benguela and Lobito to Lubango in the southern Huila province have also been affected.

Thousands more flee fighting in north

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31 Aug 1999

Angola + 1 other
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 31 August

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ANGOLA: Several killed in ambushes
At least eight people were killed and several others injured in rebel ambushes and attacks at the weekend, news organisations reported on Tuesday.

The reports said UNITA rebels had left four people dead in an attack on a town called Dundo in the eastern Lunda Sul Province some 1,000 km east of the capital Luanda. Local radio correspondents quoted by AFP said hundreds had fled, but gave no further details.

In an ambush on a vehicle convoy along a road near the town in a separate incident on also Sunday, two people

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27 Aug 1999

Angola + 6 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 34 covering the period 21-27 August 1999

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ANGOLA: Security Council debates Angola

The UN Security Council this week demanded that UNITA, the Angolan rebel movement of Jonas Savimbi, comply immediately and unconditionally with obligations under the 1994 UN-brokered Lusaka Protocol peace accords to demilitarise and allow the extension of the government's administration to areas under their control.

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25 Aug 1999

Angola + 3 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 25 August

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ANGOLA: Government turns down UN on aid corridors
The Angolan govenement has turned down a United nations Security Council request for humanitarian aid corridors saying luanda itself could ensure emergency relief deliveries, media reports said on Wednesday.

The reports quoting Foreign minister Joao Miranda said there was no need for such measures. They also said the UNITA rebel movement had so far failed to respond to the UN request.

Police detain three journalists

The Angolan government has detained three journalist from Kuito, about 350km southeast of the capital Luanda, media

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23 Aug 1999

Angola + 7 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 23 August 1999

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ANGOLA: Pope says Angolan conflict threatens entire region
Pope John Paul II has described the Angolan conflict as one of the worst humanitarian crises in Africa and warned that it threatened to engulf the entire region, media reports said on Monday.

"Ever more worrying news reaches us from Angola where, because of civil war, one of the most serious humanitarian crises is developing in silence and with no respect for human dignity," the pope said. The pope said Angolan bishops had voiced their concerns about the plight of thousands of Angolans.

MALAWI: Eritreans deported

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