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01 Nov 1999

Burundi + 3 others
IRIN Update 791 for the Great Lakes

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— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network
for Central and Eastern Africa
Tel: +254 2 622147
Fax: +254 2 622129
e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Four "operational zones" established by JMC

The Joint Military Commission (JMC), established under the Lusaka peace deal, on Sunday divided the country into four operational zones covering territory controlled by both the government and rebels, the independent Ugandan 'Monitor' newspaper reported on Monday.

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01 Nov 1999

Burundi + 4 others
Burundian Refugees Terrorise Hosts

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— Pan African News Agency
Nicodemus Odhiambo, PANA Correspondent
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (PANA) - Thousands of refugees from Burundi, some of whom are armed, are unleashing a spate of violent attacks on locals in the western Tanzanian region of Kigoma.

The locals have appealed to the authorities to either repatriate the refugees immediately or beef up security in the region.

Unconfirmed reports say scores of villagers have either been killed or hurt in the past but the cases went unreported.

According to the government, the refugees

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01 Nov 1999

Democratic Republic of the Congo + 1 other
Ugandan troops clash with Mai Mai warriors in DR Congo

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— Agence France-Presse
KIGALI, Nov 1 (AFP) - Ugandan troops and rebels they support have clashed sporadically with traditional warriors in the northeast Democratic Republic of Congo town of Bunia, witnesses told AFP on Monday.
A rebel-controlled radio station identified the attackers as Mai Mai warriors, some of whom support DRC President Laurent Kabila against a variety of rebel groups. Some of their commanders are generals in Kabila's army.

"Bunia came under attack on the night of October 27 at around three in the morning," said one of the witnesses, a clergymen based in the town.

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01 Nov 1999

Democratic Republic of the Congo + 8 others
Horn of Africa: The Monthly Review (Sep-Oct 1999)

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— UNDP Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia


This update covers the period September- October 1999
REGIONAL ISSUES

WHO Horn of Africa Initiative:

Recognizing the need for regional collaboration to ensure the health and safety of people who live in border areas, in March 1998 health ministers of countries of the Horn of Africa attended a conference on public health where they signed a Protocol of Co-operation enabling "cross-border" control of major health problems.

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01 Nov 1999

Kenya + 2 others
Field Exchange Nov 1999: Food aid targeting in East Africa

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— Emergency Nutrition Network
Consultancy Report
The FEWS (Famine Early Warning System) project for the Greater Horn of Africa recently commissioned a review on food aid targeting* in East Africa with the aim of improving the targeting of emergency food aid in response to drought induced slow onset food crises in Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. The reviewer spent three weeks in each country in discussions with agency staff at capital city level and in selected food insecure areas. Relief operations during the year of 1997/8 were taken as a reference period to focus discussion.

Main findings

Tanzania:

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01 Nov 1999

Uganda
Field Exchange Nov 1999: Between a Rock and a Hard Place? Responding to IDP Food Needs in Uganda

Report
— Emergency Nutrition Network
Philippa Howell is the Research & Programme Learning Officer in the Emergencies Unit, of ActionAid based in UK. This article which she has contributed describes important issues arising from working as a WFP implementing partner with internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Western Uganda. The article draws from a review of the Bundibugyo food distribution which the author carried out in 1998.
Many international NGOs make a long term commitment to communities with whom they are engaged in development programmes. Increasingly, crises such as conflict as well as drought or
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31 Oct 1999

Democratic Republic of the Congo + 2 others
Five million dollars raised for DRC peace process

Report
— Agence France-Presse
LUSAKA, Oct 31 (AFP) - The commission overseeing implementation of the fragile peace process in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has raised more than five million dollars, a Zambian cabinet minister has said.
"We estimated the costs of the commission's work at five million dollars. We have raised a little more than that and expect more pledges, but money is never enough," Presidential Affairs Minister Eric Silwamba told reporters on Saturday.

Zambia has been tasked with leading a regional effort to negotiate a peace settlement in the DRC, where rebels

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29 Oct 1999

Democratic Republic of the Congo + 2 others
New toll for DR Congo clash: 27 dead

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— Agence France-Presse
KIGALI, Oct 29 (AFP) - Twenty-seven people including 10 civilians died in clashes earlier this week involving Mai Mai warriors in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a rebel leader said Friday, giving a new toll.
The fighting took place Monday near Uvira in South Kivu province.

Earlier reports put the death toll at around 15. "We sent a team there and according to their findings, there was a total of 27 dead and several wounded," said Commander Ilondo of the Congolese Rally for Demcocracy (RCD), speaking from the movement's

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29 Oct 1999

Democratic Republic of the Congo + 2 others
Kabila calls for DR Congo-Uganda peace dialogue

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— Agence France-Presse
KAMPALA, Oct 29 (AFP) - President Laurent Kabila has appealed for dialogue with President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, which backs rebels in Kabila's Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC Justice Minister Mwenze Kongolo said here.
"I came to Kampala as an envoy bringing a personal message of peace to President Museveni from President Kabila, which said that we need to talk more and exchange ideas on how to get peace and how we can enforce the Lusaka accord," Kongolo told Uganda's independent Monitor newspaper in an interview published on Friday.
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29 Oct 1999

Cameroon + 13 others
IRIN-WA Weekly Round-up 43 covering the period 23-29 Oct 1999

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— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network for West Africa
Tel: +225 21 73 54
Fax: +225 21 63 35
e-mail: irin-wa@ocha.unon.org

SIERRA LEONE: More than 625,000 children immunised against polio

A total of 627,978 children were immunised against polio in Sierra Leone's 13 districts on 9-10 October, during the first round of National Immunisation Days for Polio Eradication, the World Health Organisation (WHO) office in Freetown reported.

About 93.1 percent of targeted children

IRIN:

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This article does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations or its agencies. Refer to the IRIN copyright page for conditions of use.

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29 Oct 1999

Burundi + 10 others
IRIN-CEA Weekly Round-up 43 covering the period 23 - 29 Oct 1999

Report
— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network for Central and Eastern Africa
Tel: +254 2 622147
Fax: +254 2 622129
e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: UN mission clouded by controversy

Controversy still surrounds the deployment of members of the UN observer mission, MONUC, to parts of the DRC. DRC Interior Minister Gaetan Kakudji this week authorised MONUC to visit Goma and other rebel-held areas. However, according to a report on state television,

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29 Oct 1999

Burundi + 9 others
Bulletin hebdomadaire d'information 43 pour l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est

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— IRIN
NATIONS UNIES
Bureau pour la coordination des Affaires Humanitaires - IRIN
Pour l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est
Tél.: +254 2 622147
Fax: +254 2 622129
e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org

RDC : La mission de l'ONU assombrie par la polémique

Le déploiement dans certaines régions de la RDC, des membres de la mission d'observation de l'ONU, la MONUC, continue à susciter la polémique. Le ministre de l'intérieur de la RDC, M. Gaetan Kakudji, a autorisé cette semaine la MONUC à visiter les zones sous contrôle rebelle. Cependant, selon un reportage de la télévision nationale,

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28 Oct 1999

Sierra Leone + 2 others
Special efforts are needed for recovery of child soldiers, Third Committee told during debate on children's rights

Report
— UN General Assembly
Press Release GA/SHC/3539 - 19991028
Warning that without timely assistance, Africa could quickly fall back into the cycle of violence, the representative of Sierra Leone called for a comprehensive programme of assistance to the children of war-torn societies in order to bring durable and sustainable peace to the continent as a whole. He addressed the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) this morning as it met to continue considering issues related to the promotion and protection of the rights of children.

Stating that his country's armed conflict

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28 Oct 1999

Somalia + 6 others
FEWS bulletin Oct 1999: Eastern Africa and the Horn

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— US Agency for International Development


Food Security in Ethiopia Remains Precarious

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27 Oct 1999

Sudan + 1 other
Uganda: IRIN News Briefs, 27 October

Report
— IRIN
Britain says aid flows dependent on referendum process
The British High Commissioner to Uganda, Michael Cook, has reiterated that unfairness in the running of next year's referendum on multi-party politics would be grounds, among others, for Britain to reconsider its aid to Uganda. In a letter to the independent 'Monitor' newspaper, he said a flawed referendum process and failure to resolutely tackle other issues such as corruption and increased military expenditure "would have negative implications for future levels of our assistance to Uganda and our relations".
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27 Oct 1999

Burundi + 3 others
IRIN Update 788 for the Great Lakes

Report
— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network
for Central and Eastern Africa
Tel: +254 2 622147
Fax: +254 2 622129
e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org

RWANDA: "Historical" year for genocide court

The past year has been "historical" for the Arusha-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), according to its fourth annual report, issued at UN headquarters on Monday. The report, covering the period July 1998 to June 1999, said the Tribunal's

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27 Oct 1999

Angola + 7 others
Zimbabwe: Government defends DRC intervention

Report
— IRIN
HARARE, 27 October (IRIN) - A spokesman for Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe said on Wednesday the government had the support of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in its military intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
In an interview with IRIN, presidential spokesman George Charamba, said the regional power, South Africa, which had expressed reserve on the intervention by SADC neighbours Zimbabwe, Namibia and Angola, had been more supportive since Thabo Mbeki succeeded Nelson Mandela as president earlier this year. "Contrary to what you
IRIN:

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27 Oct 1999

Burundi + 3 others
Bulletin quotidien d'information No. 788 pour la région des Grands Lacs

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— IRIN
NATIONS UNIES
Bureau pour la coordination des Affaires Humanitaires - IRIN
Pour l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est
Tél.: +254 2 622147
Fax: +254 2 622129
e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org

RWANDA : Année " historique " pour le tribunal du génocide

L'année qui vient de s'écouler a été " historique " pour le Tribunal pénal international pour le Rwanda (TPIR), selon le quatrième rapport annuel de l'institution publié lundi au siège de l'ONU. Le rapport, qui couvre la période de juillet 1998 à

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26 Oct 1999

Burundi + 2 others
IRIN Update 787 for the Great Lakes

Report
— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network
for Central and Eastern Africa
Tel: +254 2 622147
Fax: +254 2 622129
e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org

GREAT LAKES: Rwanda, Burundi challenge admissibility of ICJ case

Rwanda and Burundi are challenging the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in cases brought against them by the DRC. In complaints filed against Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda in June, the DRC charged the three countries with invading its territory

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26 Oct 1999

Burundi + 2 others
Bulletin quotidien d'information No. 787 pour la région des Grands Lacs

Report
— IRIN
NATIONS UNIES
Bureau pour la coordination des Affaires Humanitaires - IRIN
Pour l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est
Tél.: +254 2 622147
Fax: +254 2 622129
e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org

GRANDS LACS : Le Rwanda et le Burundi remettent en cause la compétence de la CIJ

Le Rwanda et le Burundi ont remis en cause la compétence de la Cour internationale de justice (CIJ) à délibérer des procès que leur a intentés la RDC. Dans des plaintes déposées contre le Rwanda, le Burundi et l'Ouganda en juin, la RDC accuse les trois

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