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01 Jan 2004

Democratic Republic of the Congo + 7 others
DR Congo Appeal No. 01.43/2004

Report
— IFRC
The International Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. The Federation is the world's largest humanitarian organization, and its millions of volunteers are active in over 180 countries. All international assistance to support vulnerable communities seeks to adhere to the Code of Conduct and the Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response, according to the SPHERE Project.
This document reflects a range of programmes and activities to be implemented in 2004, and the related funding
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31 Dec 2003

Uganda
Thousands take part in peace marches in north Uganda

Report
— Agence France-Presse
KAMPALA, Dec 31 (AFP) - Thousands of people took part in peace marches in northern Uganda on Wednesday to demand the end of a 17-year rebel war in the region, officials said.
"About four thousand people participated in the demonstration in Gulu town that ended with a peace prayer," Roman Catholic priest Carlos Rodriguez told AFP by telephone from Gulu.

He said more people had taken part in a another march organised by religions leaders in the town of Kigum, northeast of Gulu.

Northern Uganda has been wracked by nearly

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31 Dec 2003

Angola + 6 others
Africa: Multi-Country Demobilization and Reintegration Program - progress report and work plan, Oct - Dec 2003

Report
— World Bank
1. This report provides an update of activities carried out under the Multi-Country Demobilization and Reintegration Program (MDRP) since the time of the previous quarterly progress report (July to September 2003). The report is organized by the four main components of the MDRP, namely: (i) national demobilization and reintegration programs; (ii) special projects; (iii) regional activities; and (iv) overall program management. A revised work plan for the period January to March 2004 is also included in this report.

I. National Programs

Angola

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30 Dec 2003

Uganda
Ugandan army says 300 rescued from LRA rebels in December

Report
— Deutsche Presse Agentur
Kampala (dpa) - Government forces in December rescued 318 people, mainly children, who had been abducted by guerillas fighting in northern Uganda, an army spokesman said Tuesday.
The army is transferring dozens of malnourished and wounded children whom it had rescued from the Lords Resistance Army (LRA), to trauma treatment centres, the spokesman Chris Magezi said in a telephone interview from Lira, 270 kilometres north of Kampala.

"I am today handing over a batch of 52 people rescued in the last four days during hot pursuit and contacts

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30 Dec 2003

Afghanistan + 29 others
The Federal Foreign Office supported more than 300 humanitarian aid projects all over the world in 2003

Report
— Government of Germany
The Federal Foreign Office supported 307 projects for humanitarian aid, humanitarian mine clearance as well as disaster prevention all over the world in 2003 to the tune of EUR 71.5 million.
Some 237 projects totalling EUR 52.5 million received support from the humanitarian aid budget. This funding was used to look after victims of natural disasters or armed conflicts and provide life-saving commodities such as clean drinking water, food and medication. The aid projects were implemented by German non-governmental
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26 Dec 2003

Democratic Republic of the Congo + 2 others
RDC: La MONUC rapatrie des ex-combattants ougandais et rwandais cantonnés à Kitona

Report
— UN Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Désiré Baere/Radio Okapi
La MONUC a commencé depuis samedi 13 décembre dernier le rapatriement d'ex-combattants rwandais et ougandais cantonnés à Kitona, à l'Ouest de la RDC. Au total cinq cent quatre-vingt-neuf personnes étaient concernées par l'opération DDRRR (désarmement, démobilisation, rapatriement, réinstallation et réinsertion)

Samedi 13 décembre, dans la journée une petite pluie s'abat sur la base militaire de Kitona, la deuxième en importance en RDC, après Kamina. La localité est située à l'extrême ouest du pays, à quelques centaines de mètres de l'océan Atlantique.

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25 Dec 2003

Uganda
Church leaders call for renewed efforts for dialogue in the Ugandan war

Report
— Agence France-Presse
KAMPALA, Dec 25 (AFP) - Christian leaders in Uganda used Christmas to renew calls to parties involved in a civil war raging in the north of the country to embrace dialogue as the solution to the 17-year old conflict.
Both the Roman Catholic and Anglican Church leaders called on the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels fighting government forces in the north and north-east to accept dialogue with the government to end the suffering in the region.

"The call we make to all those with guns raised against their brothers is 'put them down and talk peace and

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23 Dec 2003

Burundi + 5 others
Grands Lacs : La conférence régionale sera retardée

Report
— IRIN
NAIROBI, le 23 décembre (IRIN) - La conférence régionale pour la paix et le développement ne se tiendra pas en juin 2004 comme prévu, en raison "de certains délais dans l'établissement et les activités de quelques commissions nationales préparatoires, notamment celle de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC)", a annoncé vendredi le bureau du représentant spécial du secrétaire général des Nations Unies pour les Grands Lacs.
A l'occasion d'une réunion à Nairobi (Kenya), les parties à la conférence internationale pour les Grands Lacs
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22 Dec 2003

Democratic Republic of the Congo + 1 other
RDC-Ouganda : La MONUC voit une ''avancée'' dans le rapatriement des rebelles ougandais

Report
— IRIN
KAMPALA, le 22 décembre (IRIN) - Les responsables de la mission des Nations Unies en République démocratique du Congo (RDC) ont salué le récent rapatriement d'anciens rebelles ougandais opérant en RDC. Ils ont qualifié cet événement "d'avancée décisive pour la normalisation des relations entre l'Ouganda et le Congo". La MONUC a encore estimé que cette importante étape devrait inciter d'autres rebelles ougandais encore présents en RDC à quitter le territoire.
"Ceci permettra à ces deux pays voisins d'avoir des relations diplomatiques normales," affirmé à IRIN
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22 Dec 2003

Uganda + 1 other
DRC-Uganda: MONUC hails return of Ugandan rebels as a "breakthrough"

Report
— IRIN
KAMPALA, 22 December (IRIN) - UN officials have hailed the recent repatriation of former Ugandan rebels operating in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as a "breakthrough in the normalisation of relations between Uganda and Congo", adding that it would be useful in convincing other Ugandan rebels still at large in eastern DRC to return.
Speaking to IRIN on Friday at the UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC's (MONUC) headquarters in Kampala, the Ugandan capital, MONUC political affairs officer Philippe de Bard said
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22 Dec 2003

Burundi + 9 others
Government of the Netherlands: Africa Memorandum 2003

Report
— Government of the Netherlands
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1. Main features of Dutch policy on Africa
1.1 Dutch policy on Africa: key aspects

Sub-Saharan Africa is the only part of the world where the general standard of living has been falling in recent decades. Poverty here is worse and affects a larger part of the population than on any other continent. The problems are prodigious: the proliferation of armed conflicts, weak and corrupt governments, lack of economic development, inadequate social infrastructures, environmental degradation and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. What is more, these problems are closely linked. Despite substantial

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22 Dec 2003

Burundi + 5 others
Great Lakes: Regional conference facing ''some delays''

Report
— IRIN
Nairobi, 22 December (IRIN) - A regional peace and development conference will not likely take place in June 2004 as had been foreseen, owing to "some delays in the setting up and operations of some National Preparatory Committees, notably that of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)", the Office of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region reported on Friday.
Meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, on Friday, parties to the International Conference for the Great Lakes Region, however,
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19 Dec 2003

Uganda
Twenty-five die in cattle-rustling raid in east Uganda

Report
— Agence France-Presse
KAMPALA, Dec 19 (AFP) - At least 25 people were killed this week in eastern Uganda when heavily armed Karamojong tribal warriors raided neighbouring communities to steal cattle, a military spokesman said on Friday.
The victims of the raid on Wednesday included 14 villagers and 11 warriors killed by government troops, according army spokesman Lieutenant David Kazoola.

"We have confirmed reports that 14 civilians were killed in Nadunget in Masheniko county of Moroto district when a joint force of the Bokora and the Pians attacked the Matheniko,"

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19 Dec 2003

Afghanistan + 25 others
WFP Emergency Report No. 51 of 2003

Report
— World Food Programme


This report includes:
A) Middle East and Central Asia: (1) Iraq, (2) Afghanistan

B) East and Central Africa: (1) DR Congo, (2) Burundi, (3) Rwanda, (4) Uganda, (5) Sudan, (6) Eritrea, (7) Ethiopia, (8) Somalia

C) West Africa: (1) Mauritania, (2) Guinea, (3) Sierra Leone, (4) Liberia, (5) Côte d'Ivoire

D) Southern Africa: (1) Regional, (2) Namibia, (3) Angola, (4) Zambia, (5) Zimbabwe, (6) Malawi, (7) Mozambique, (8) Swaziland, (9) Lesotho, (10) Madagascar

E) Asia: (1) Bhutan, (2) Indonesia, (3) DPR Korea

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18 Dec 2003

Uganda
To end suffering of Uganda's 1.4 million IDPs, donors must urge government to protect camps against rebel attacks

Report
— Global IDP Project
GENEVA, 18 December 2003 - Uganda's donors should insist that the government protect the 1.4 million internally displaced people, or IDPs, who have been uprooted by the fighting between government forces and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army in the north of the country, concludes a report published by the Norwegian Refugee Council's Global IDP Project today.
"In order to bring an end to this humanitarian catastrophe and the suffering of the victims of this bloody
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18 Dec 2003

Uganda
Uganda: Mass displacement to unprotected camps

Report
— Global IDP Project
This summary outlines the main findings of the newly updated country profile on internal displacement in Uganda. The profile was prepared by the Global IDP Project of the Norwegian Refugee Council, which monitors and analyses internal displacement in over 50 countries worldwide. The full country profile is available from the Project's Database (www.idpproject.org), or upon request by e-mail (idpproject@nrc.ch).
Described by a senior UN official as the "world's biggest neglected humanitarian crisis", the conflict
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18 Dec 2003

Burundi + 3 others
Great Lakes: Conference in Burundi calls for end to marginalisation of Pygmies

Report
— Agence France-Presse
BUJUMBURA, Dec 18 (AFP) - Around 50 delegates gathered in Burundi Thursday for the final day of a conference calling for an end to the marginalisation of Pygmies in Africa's Great Lakes region.
The conference, which opened Tuesday, has gathered representatives from the Pygmy communities in Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda and Uganda.

"We are here to see which strategies we should adopt to end the marginalisation of our respective societies, above all, in the field of education," Charles Uwiragiye, a member of the delegation from Rwanda, told AFP.

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16 Dec 2003

Uganda
Uganda: New amnesty law to exclude top LRA leaders

Report
— IRIN
NAIROBI, 16 December (IRIN) - The Ugandan government has announced plans to amend its four-year-old amnesty law to exclude the top leadership of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). The current law expires on 17 January.
The Amnesty Act, which became law in January 2000, currently offers a blanket immunity and resettlement packages to all rebels who surrender their arms.

Shaban Bantariza, Uganda army spokesman told IRIN on Tuesday the law - which is renewed every six months - would this time be amended in parliament to exclude LRA leader Joseph Kony and his senior commanders.

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