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01 May 2001

Uganda + 1 other
Twenty-five former Ugandan captives preparing to return home

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— Agence France-Presse
KHARTOUM, April 30 (AFP) - Ugandan rebels in southern Sudan have freed 25 captives, including women and children, and they have arrived here on their way home to Uganda, the state-run SUNA news agency said.

Thirteen captives, including seven women and four children, who were captives of the Lord's Resistance Army rebels (LRA), arrived here Sunday while another group of 12 people came here earlier, SUNA reported.

It was not clear how many of the original group were women and children.

The repatriation is being conducted by

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01 May 2001

Burundi + 4 others
IRIN Update 1168 for the Great Lakes

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DRC: Aid agencies in protest at killing of ICRC workers

Some 20 aid agencies working in eastern DRC have suspended humanitarian activities from Monday to Wednesday in protest against the murder of six colleagues from the ICRC in an ambush on the Bunia-Djugu road in Orientale Province on 26 April. "To express

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01 May 2001

Burundi + 4 others
Bulletin quotidien d'information No. 1168 pour la région des Grands Lacs

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RDC: Les agences humanitaires protestent contre le meurtre des employés du CICR

Une vingtaine d'organisations humanitaires opérant à l'est de la RDC ont suspendu leurs activités de lundi à mercredi en signe de protestation contre le meurtre de six collègues du CICR, victimes d'une embuscade le 26 avril sur la route reliant Bunia à Djugu en province

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01 May 2001

Burundi + 3 others
Congo rebels: No peace unless foreign forces leave

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— Reuters - AlertNet
By Paul Busharizi
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Congolese rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba threatened on Tuesday to pull out of the peace process aimed at ending the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo if foreign forces backing the government failed to leave.

''This is an ultimatum to Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia that if they do not pull out the same way Uganda has done, we do not see why we should be involved in the Lusaka peace agreement,'' the Congolese Liberation Front (FLC) leader said at a news conference in the Ugandan capital of Kampala.

He gave no deadline but said he would

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30 Apr 2001

Uganda
Uganda Affected Populations by District - Refugees and Internally Displaced

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30 Apr 2001

Burundi + 2 others
IRIN Update 1167 for the Great Lakes

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DRC: Annan, Security Council deplore ICRC murders

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the UN Security Council on 27 April expressed "distress" at the killings of six relief workers in the DRC on 26 April, and urged parties to the conflict to ensure safe access by humanitarian agencies. In a statement

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30 Apr 2001

Burundi + 2 others
Bulletin quotidien d'information No. 1167 pour la région des Grands Lacs

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RDC: Annan et le Conseil de sécurité déplorent l'assassinat des employés du CICR

Le Secrétaire général de l'ONU, Kofi Annan et le Conseil de sécurité ont exprimé, le 27 avril, leur 'grande affliction' face à l'assassinat collectif de six travailleurs humanitaires en République démocratique du Congo (RDC) le 26 avril, et ont instamment

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30 Apr 2001

Democratic Republic of the Congo + 2 others
Uganda pullout of Lusaka accords "not necessarily a setback": Annan

Report
— UN Department of Public Information
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said Uganda's announcement that it had withdrawn from the Lusaka peace accords was "not necessarily a setback" if the authorities respect the spirit of the agreement.
"Under the agreement, [Ugandan troops] are supposed to withdraw from the Congo," the Secretary-General told reporters at UN Headquarters. "If indeed Uganda does withdraw and ends this engagement in the Congo and respects the spirit of the agreement, I think it will be fine."

Mr. Annan, who heard Uganda's statement

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30 Apr 2001

Angola + 13 others
Field Exchange Apr 2001: Conflict - a cause and effect of hunger

Report
— Emergency Nutrition Network
Summary of draft review1
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is currently working on a review of what is known about the linkages between hunger. Some of the key findings of the review are outlined in this summary.

At the end of 2000, violent conflict and its aftermath had left nearly 24 million people in 28 developing and transition countries and territories food insecure and in need of humanitarian assistance. In addition, some 35 million war-affected refugees and internally displaced persons showed high rates of malnutrition.

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29 Apr 2001

Burundi + 3 others
Uganda to pull out of DRCongo and peace process: Museveni

Report
— Agence France-Presse
KAMPALA, April 29 (AFP) - Uganda, rejecting a damning UN report accusing Kampala of looting minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is to pull out all of its troops from the country and withdraw from the peace process there.
President Yoweri Museveni wrote in the government mouthpiece the Sunday Vision: "I have now decided to recommend to the High Command, the Army Council, the Government and Parliament that Ugandan forces withdraw completely from DRC and also from the Lusaka Process."

He did not give a date for the completion

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29 Apr 2001

Democratic Republic of the Congo + 2 others
Ugandan-backed rebels block deployment of UN observers in DRC

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— Agence France-Presse
MBANDAKA, DR Congo, April 29 (AFP) - Rebels backed by Uganda are continuing to block the deployment of UN observers in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the head of the UN observer mission said on Sunday.
"Our observers have delayed their deployment due to the fact that (Jean-Pierre) Bemba has not left as planned," said General Mountaga Diallo, who is commanding the UN operation in DRC, known as MONUC.

Bemba is the leader of the Congolese Liberation Front (FLC), which is backed by Kampala and controls the north

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27 Apr 2001

Afghanistan + 12 others
WFP Emergency Report No. 17 of 2001

Report
— World Food Programme
This report includes: (A) Great Lakes Region: (1) Regional Operation, (2) DR Congo, (3) Burundi (B) West and Central Asia: (1) Afghanistan, (2) Pakistan, (3) Tajikistan, (4) Armenia (C) Eritrea (D) Southern Africa (1) Angola, (2) Namibia (E) Sierra Leone
From Francesco Strippoli, Senior Humanitarian Adviser; available on the Internet on the WFP Home Page (www.wfp.org), or by e-mail from Zlatan.Milisic@wfp.org. For information on resources, donors are requested to contact Valerie.Sequeira@wfp.org at WFP Rome, telephone
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27 Apr 2001

Angola + 6 others
Bulletin quotidien d'information No. 1166 pour la région des Grands Lacs

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RDC: Le CICR suspend son travail à Bunia après le meurtre de six employés

Six employés du CICR ont été retrouvés morts jeudi en bordure de l'axe routier reliant Djugu à Fataki près de Bunia, au nord-est de la RDC. "L'équipe, à bord de deux véhicules portant l'emblème du CICR, effectuait une évaluation pour une prochaine distribution dans la région. Ils avaient perdu tout contact radio avec

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27 Apr 2001

Angola + 4 others
Certification to combat conflict diamonds due in November

Report
— Agence France-Presse
by Emmanuel Defouloy
BRUSSELS, April 27 (AFP) - An international certification system to curb the flow of conflict diamonds is to be in place in November, participants at a Brussels conference on conflict diamonds said Friday.

Thibedi Ramontja, who chairs the so-called Kimberley Process against conflict diamonds, said the "main characteristics" of the new certificates of origin would be agreed at a meeting in Moscow in July.

"In November, at a meeting in Gaborone, an international certification will be in place," said Ramontja, whose

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27 Apr 2001

Angola + 6 others
IRIN Update 1166 for the Great Lakes

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DRC: ICRC suspends work in Bunia after employees killed

The bodies of six ICRC aid workers were on Thursday found on the road between Djugu and Fataki near Bunia, in northeastern DRC. "The team, which was travelling in two vehicles marked with the ICRC emblem to carry out an evaluation for the next distribution in the

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27 Apr 2001

Democratic Republic of the Congo + 1 other
Letter from Permanent Mission of DR Congo to the UN Security Council (re: murder of six ICRC staff) (S/2001/420)

Report
— UN Security Council
S/2001/420

Letter dated 27 April 2001 from the Chargé d'affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council

The Democratic Republic of the Congo was distressed to learn of the murder of six staff of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), four of Congolese nationality and two foreigners, which took place on Thursday, 26 April 2001 in Orientale province, on the Bunia-Djugu road, some 30 kilometres from the town of Bunia, close to the Ugandan border.

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26 Apr 2001

Djibouti + 6 others
Towards food security in the Horn of Africa

Report
— World Vision
By Alison Preston
In the Horn of Africa, around 70 million people live in a constant state of food insecurity and regularly face famine.

According the the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), more than half the people in the Horn survive on less than $1 per day.

The population of the region has doubled since 1974 and continues to grow rapidly. And only 1% of the cultivable land in the region is irrigated, making it extremely vulnerable to droughts.

The FAO and organistions like World Vision are seeking to break this cycle of hunger and poverty, with a strategy

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26 Apr 2001

Burundi + 3 others
Rwanda asks UN to reject report on mineral looting in DR Congo

Report
— Agence France-Presse
KIGALI, April 26 (AFP) - The Rwandan government has asked the UN Security Council to reject the conclusions of a report by UN experts accusing Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi of looting minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), officials said.
"None of the allegations quoted in the report were verified, not even with the people concerned," Rwandan Finance Minister Donald Kaberuka told a press conference on Wednesday.

"Such negligence is unacceptable," he added, flanked by Rwanda's special envoy to the DRC, Patrick Mazimhaka,

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26 Apr 2001

Angola + 5 others
IRIN Update 1165 for the Great Lakes

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GREAT LAKES: WFP appeals for $93 million to fight hunger

The World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday made an appeal for US $93 million to help populations facing hunger in the Great Lakes region. A statement from the agency indicated that the number of those in need was almost double the original monthly figure of

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