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01 Oct 2000

United Republic of Tanzania + 9 others
Update of the Oct to Dec 2000 Climate Outlook for the Greater Horn of Africa

Report
— Drought Monitoring Centre for the Greater Horn of Africa
October to December constitutes an important rainfall season over the Greater Horn of Africa sub-region. This report provides DMCN update of the climate outlook for the September to December 2000 rainfall season for the Greater Horn of Africa that was issued at the sixth Climate Outlook Forum held in Kisumu, Kenya from 14th to 18th August 2000.
Among the principal factors taken into account in developing this climate outlook update was the anticipated near average sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean and the
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30 Sep 2000

Democratic Republic of the Congo + 2 others
Masire ploughing on as DR Congo mediator

Report
— Agence France-Presse
GABORONE, Sept 30 (AFP) - Former Botswana president Sir Ketumile Masire, rejected by President Laurent Kabila as mediator in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) peace talks, is ploughing ahead anyway, leaving for Britain, France and Belgium on Sunday to brief their governments on progress.
He said in a statement Saturday that he had kept a low profile for some time "to avoid getting into a shouting match."

Masire was appointed as facilitator by the Organisation of African Unity last December, but on June 12 the Kinshasa

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30 Sep 2000

Afghanistan + 36 others
FAO/GIEWS Food Outlook No. 4, 2000

Report
— Food and Agriculture Organization
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Rome, September 2000
Extracts from FAO/GIEWS Food Outlook No. 4, 2000

Highlights

Latest indications continue to point to increased cereal output in 2000, although the growth will be lower than expected earlier. This reaffirms earlier forecasts that total cereal production will not be sufficient to meet expected utilization requirements in 2000/01, causing global cereal reserves to be drawn down.

FAO's latest forecast for cereal production in 2000 is 1 881 million tonnes, up 0.3 percent on last year. Output of

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30 Sep 2000

Afghanistan + 14 others
Health in Emergencies Issue 7, Sep 2000

Report
— World Health Organization


HIV/AIDS in Complex Emergencies - A Call for Action
Dr Peter Piot, Executive Director, UNAIDS

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29 Sep 2000

Angola + 7 others
IRIN-CEA Weekly Round-up 39 covering the period 23 - 29 Sep 2000

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— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network
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BURUNDI: Agenda agreed at follow-up meeting

The 19 signatories to the 28 August Arusha accord, who began their meeting in Arusha last Monday, have agreed on an agenda for their talks, the independent Hirondelle news agency reported. A senior official of the facilitation team, Judge Mark Bomani, announced

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27 Sep 2000

Angola + 6 others
IRIN Update 1020 for the Great Lakes

Report
— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network
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UGANDA: "Understanding" with Angola, Rwanda over DRC

An Angolan military delegation led by Chief-of-Staff General Joao Baptista de Matos this week visited Uganda and held talks with President Yoweri Museveni and senior military officers. A Ugandan source told IRIN that the talks were a confidence-building measure

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27 Sep 2000

Angola + 6 others
Bulletin quotidien d'information No. 1020 pour la région des Grands Lacs

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— IRIN
NATIONS UNIES
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Pour l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est
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OUGANDA: "Entente" avec le Rwanda sur la RDC

Une délégation militaire angolaise conduite par le chef d'état-major, le général Joao Baptista de Matos, s'est rendue cette semaine en Ouganda et a tenu des pourparlers avec le président Yoweri Museveni et des officiers militaires supérieurs. Une source ougandaise a confié à IRIN que ces consultations avaient pour but de rétablir la confiance

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26 Sep 2000

Angola + 5 others
Bulletin quotidien d'information No. 1019 pour la région des Grands Lacs

Report
— IRIN
NATIONS UNIES
Bureau de Coordination des Affaires Humanitaires - IRIN
Pour l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est
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RDC: Annan déplore la gravité de la situation humanitaire

Dans son rapport adressé au Conseil de Sécurité dans lequel il a recommandé une prorogation de deux mois du mandat de la Mission de l'ONU en RDC (MONUC), le Secrétaire-général de l'ONU, Kofi Annan, a insisté pour que les préparatifs du déploiement de la Phase Deux de la MONUC se poursuivent. Toutefois, il a fait observer

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26 Sep 2000

Angola + 5 others
IRIN Update 1019 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

DRC: Annan deplores grave humanitarian situation

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in his report to the Security Council in which he recommended an eight-week extension to the UN Mission in DRC (MONUC), has stressed that preparations for MONUC's Phase Two deployment are continuing. However, he noted the UN still lacked

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25 Sep 2000

Burundi + 5 others
IRIN Update 1018 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

BURUNDI: Nairobi follow-up meeting underway in Arusha

Follow-up talks to the Nairobi summit meeting kicked off in Arusha, Tanzania on Monday with an appeal to the warring factions to reach a ceasefire. Judge Mark Bomani, an official of the facilitation team, told participants of the 19 sides taking part in

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25 Sep 2000

Eritrea + 5 others
IRIN Horn of Africa Update, 25 September

Report
— IRIN
SOMALIA: Libya brokers agreement
Interim President Abdiqasim Salad Hasan signed a "memorandum of understanding" with Mogadishu faction leader Husayn Muhammad Aydid in Libya. Sources close to Abdiqasim told IRIN that the president met and held talks with Aydid in Libya and that the memorandum was "a basic understanding of cooperation". According to the source, Abdiqasim was given an enthusiastic state welcome in Libya, with a 21-gun salute, and streets lined with Somali flags. Libyan leader Moamer Al-Qadafi said he accepted Abdiqasim as the president of
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25 Sep 2000

Burundi + 5 others
Bulletin quotidien d'information No. 1018 pour la région des Grands Lacs

Report
— IRIN
NATIONS UNIES
Bureau de Coordination des Affaires Humanitaires - IRIN
Pour l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est
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E-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org

BURUNDI : Après Nairobi, poursuite des pourparlers à Arusha

Succédant au sommet de Nairobi, les pourparlers de paix ont repris lundi à Arusha en Tanzanie. A l'occasion de cette rencontre, un appel a été adressé aux diverses factions en guerre pour parvenir à un cessez-le-feu. Le juge Mark Bomani, un des responsables du bureau de

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25 Sep 2000

Uganda + 1 other
Humanitarian Update - Uganda, Volume II, Issue 7

Report
— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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OVER 10,000 TURKANA SEEK REFUGE IN KARAMOJA
Food security improves slightly
About 10,000 Turkana herdsmen have crossed into Karamoja due to drought in neighbouring Kenya. Reports also indicate that several Karamojong from the Matheniko tribe cross into Kenya to access food.

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23 Sep 2000

Democratic Republic of the Congo + 2 others
Kabila, Patasse Pledge to Promote Peace in Central Africa

Report
— Pan African News Agency
Kinshasa, Congo - President Laurent-Desire Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo and his Central African Republic counterpart, Ange-Felix Patasse have pledged to exert efforts toward promoting peace in Congo and in the Central African sub region as a whole.
The withdrawal of Ugandan and Rwandan troops is a prerequisite to the advent of that peace in line with the resolution 1304 of the UN Security Council, they said in a joint statement issued late Friday at the end of a two-day visit by Patasse in Kinshasa.

Both sides also reaffirmed the principle

Pan African News Agency:

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22 Sep 2000

Uganda
ACT Appeal Uganda: Famine Relief - AFUG-01 (Revision 1)

Report
— Action by Churches Together International


Appeal Target: US$ 188,458
Geneva, 22 September 2000

Dear Colleagues,

In response to suffering caused by the prolonged period of drought and other inclement climatic conditions in Uganda, the initial ACT Appeal for Uganda, Famine Relief was issued on 17 April 2000.

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22 Sep 2000

Burundi + 3 others
IRIN Update 1017 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

BURUNDI: CNDD-FDD "not isolated"

The rebel CNDD-FDD has reiterated that unless its two preconditions are complied with, there can never be face to face talks with the Burundi government. Spokesman Jerome Ndiho told IRIN on Friday negotiations had to precede a ceasefire, and negotiations

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22 Sep 2000

Burundi + 5 others
IRIN-CEA Weekly Round-up 38 covering the period 16 - 22 Sep 2000

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: Rebels reject Kabila's negotiation offer

The two Ugandan-backed rebel groups, the Mouvement de liberation du Congo (MLC) and the Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD-MLC), have rejected President Laurent-Desire Kabila's offer to revive the Lusaka accord by setting up a commission to

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22 Sep 2000

Burundi + 5 others
Bulletin hebdomadaire d'information 38 pour l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est

Report
— IRIN
NATIONS UNIES
Bureau de Coordination des Affaires Humanitaires - IRIN
Pour l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est
Tél: +254 2 622147
Fax: +254 2 622 129

(du 16 au 22 septembre 2000)

RDC: Les rebelles rejettent l'offre de négociation de Kabila

Les deux factions rebelles soutenues par l'Ouganda, le Mouvement de libération du Congo (MLC) et le Rassemblement congolais pour la démocratie (RCD-MLC), ont rejeté la proposition du président Laurent-Désiré Kabila de rétablir l'accord de Lusaka en créant une commission

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22 Sep 2000

Burundi + 3 others
Bulletin quotidien d'information No. 1017 pour la région des Grands Lacs

Report
— IRIN
NATIONS UNIES
Bureau de 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

BURUNDI : Le CNDD-FDD 'n'est pas isolé'

Les rebelles du CNDD-FDD ont réaffirmé qu'il ne pourrait pas y avoir de consultations face-à-face avec le gouvernement burundais tant que leurs deux conditions n'étaient pas réunies. Le porte-parole, Jérôme Ndiho, a déclaré vendredi à IRIN que les négociations devaient précéder un cessez-le-feu, et qu'elles ne pourraient pas avoir lieu tant que les

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