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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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14 Dec 2001

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

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UNITED NATIONS
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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

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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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13 Dec 2001

Malawi
FEWS Malawi Food Security Report mid-Nov to mid-Dec 2001

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— US Agency for International Development

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Planting rains are delayed, especially in the Southern and some parts of the Central Region. A late onset of the rains could shorten the growing season with a detrimental impact on yields and production.

Distribution of free farm inputs to 1 million households under the Targeted Input Programme (TIP) is almost complete.

ADMARC maize stocks remain low at only 5,686 MT by the end of November. However, local markets are well supplied from domestic and imported sources.

Local market maize prices continued to

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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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12 Dec 2001

Malawi
Malawi: Government still planning free food distributions

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— IRIN

JOHANNESBURG, 12 December (IRIN) - The Malawian government is hoping to draw on donor and public resources to provide free food to the most vulnerable in coming months, the country's secretary for agriculture, Ellard Malindi, told IRIN on Wednesday.
The government said about two months ago that it would provide some 60,000 mt of maize to the elderly and to those who could not take part in food-for-assets or food-for-work programmes, but said at the time that it did not know where it would get the maize from.

Suffering from a severe maize shortage

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11 Dec 2001

Malawi
Malawi: Plans to bring food to Malawi's poor

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— IRIN

JOHANNESBURG, 11 December (IRIN) - The World Food Programme (WFP) is drafting plans to help thousands of impoverished Malawians survive this year's maize shortages.
WFP representative in Malawi, Adamo Diop-Faye, told IRIN on Tuesday that any food aid would be channelled through food-for-work programmes run by the agency. "The government asks that any intervention should be channelled through food-for-work," she said. "We are developing an emergency operation, which still has to be approved. We are trying to push for January. We're heading to the holidays,

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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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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: 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.

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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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30 Nov 2001

Angola + 6 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 47 covering the period 24 - 30 Nov 2001

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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: Government placed under increased pressure

The Zimbabwean government found itself under renewed pressure from the international community this week. On Wednesday 28 November the US Congress passed the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act that calls on the Zimbabwean government to respect the rule

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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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26 Nov 2001

Malawi
Malawi: IRIN interview with WFP official, Abdelgadir Hamid

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— IRIN

BLANTYRE, 26 November (IRIN) - The World Food Programme's (WF) food-for-assets initiative in Malawi aims to provide more than 11,000 mt of food to about 65,000 people over a two-year period. As Malawi's food shortages worsen, the projects have become more popular with rural Malawians forced to rely on maize as payment for their work.
Abdelgadir Musallam Hamid, head of the WFP sub-office in Blantyre, told IRIN during an interview recently that the lean season in Malawi this year is particularly severe because of the cumulative effect floods, drought and high commercial maize prices are

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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
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: 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

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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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20 Nov 2001

Malawi
FEWS Malawi Food Security Report mid-Oct to mid-Nov 2001

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— US Agency for International Development

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Summary

Planting rains, which will kick off the 2001/02 main production season, are expected at any time.

Farm inputs are readily available in the various retail outlets. Lack of purchasing power is the major constraint farmers face to buying and using these inputs.

Official maize stocks remain very low at only 3,815 MT, a level that in previous years would have been inadequate to meet the current demand for maize. However, there is no demand pressure in ADMARC markets due to the availability of alternative sources.

Local market maize prices begin to fall

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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

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02 Nov 2001

Angola + 6 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 43 covering the period 27 Oct - 2 Nov 2001

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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

SOUTH AFRICA: Troops depart for Burundi

South African troops deployed in Burundi this week to protect politicians participating in the country's multiparty transitional government faced a very "delicate mission", analysts told IRIN.

Speaking from Burundi, independent analyst Jan Van Eck said the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers

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29 Oct 2001

Malawi
Malawi: WFP extends feeding programme

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— IRIN

JOHANNESBURG, 29 October (IRIN) - The World Food Programme (WFP) has extended its emergency feeding programme for families still suffering from floods earlier this year for a further two months "in response to the alarming food situation" in the country.
WFP adviser in Malawi, Ayoub Algaloudi, told IRIN in a written response to questions that the programme which was supposed to end in October would now wrap up at the end of December.

"An extension-in-time and a budget revision have been developed for two months effective 1 November 2001.

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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
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network
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

Malawi
Malawi: Action needed now to avert starvation

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— IRIN

JOHANNESBURG, 24 October (IRIN) - Feeding programmes to assist the poor should begin soon to prevent starvation, and possible death, by the end of the year, World Vision relief manager for Malawi, Elton Ntwana, warned on Wednesday.
His warning followed the release of a World Vision nutrition survey conducted in part of the Machinga District from 2-8 October. The survey, using a height-for-age formula, found a global acute malnutrition rate of 31.8 percent among children between six months and five years old.

Using the same formula, a severe acute

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

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

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

Malawi
FEWS Malawi Food Security Report mid-Nov to mid-Dec 2001

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

Malawi
Malawi: Government still planning free food distributions

Malawi
Malawi: Plans to bring food to Malawi's poor

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

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

Angola + 6 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 47 covering the period 24 - 30 Nov 2001

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

Malawi
Malawi: IRIN interview with WFP official, Abdelgadir Hamid

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

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

Malawi
FEWS Malawi Food Security Report mid-Oct to mid-Nov 2001

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

Angola + 6 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 43 covering the period 27 Oct - 2 Nov 2001

Malawi
Malawi: WFP extends feeding programme

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

Malawi
Malawi: Action needed now to avert starvation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Angola + 6 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 47 covering the period 24 - 30 Nov 2001

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

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

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

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

Angola + 6 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 43 covering the period 27 Oct - 2 Nov 2001

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