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24 Dec 1999

Angola + 5 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 51 covering the period 18-24 Dec 1999

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ANGOLA: Fighting intensifies along southern border with Namibia

Angolan and Namibian defence forces this week blasted suspected UNITA rebel strongholds in southern Angola from positions on the Namibian side of the border sending villagers in some areas fleeing for safety in the bush.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees

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23 Dec 1999

Angola + 4 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 23 December

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ZAMBIA: UNHCR revises Angolan refugee influx upwards
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Thursday it had revised its contingency plans for refugees fleeing into Zambia from eastern Angola upwards as government forces pursue their drive against UNITA rebels.

In recent weeks, the refugee agency told IRIN, a total of 13,000 Angolan refugees had crossed over. It was now revising plans upwards to accommodate 30,000 new arrivals "in the near future". The influx has prompted a joint relief effort in which UNHCR has sent plastic

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21 Dec 1999

Angola + 2 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 21 December

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ANGOLA: Latest IDP figures
The UN Humanitarian Coordination Unit (UCAH) in Angola on Tuesday reported that the number of people internally displaced by fighting between government forces and UNITA rebels had now reached over one million people.

It said that up to 15 December, the number of confirmed internally displaced persons (IDPs) had reached 1,053,336 since January last year. The number of IDPs reported, however, was much higher at 1,732,284. UCAH put the number of people receiving food aid in Angola at 753,302, while those receiving aid other than food was given

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17 Dec 1999

Angola + 6 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 50 covering the period 11-17 December 1999

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ANGOLA: Southern offensive resumes

Angolan government forces this week resumed their offensive against UNITA rebels in the south of the country near the Namibian border in clashes which brought a new wave of refugees into Namibia.

The latest clashes come in the wake of a government offensive in October which forced UNITA to retreat towards

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16 Dec 1999

Angola + 2 others
Southern African: IRIN News Briefs, 16 Dec 1999

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ANGOLA: South Africa says no illegal arms went to Angola
The South African government said this week there had been no breaches of arms control procedures that could have led to South African weapons illegally reaching Angola or the Great Lakes region.

Kadar Asmal, chairman of the National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC) told a news conference that although the NCACC did not have "official knowledge" of illegal arms shipments, there had indeed been instances of weapons exported legally finding their way to third countries. He gave no further details.

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15 Dec 1999

South Africa + 3 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 15 Dec 1999

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SOUTH AFRICA: Foreign minister to visit Rwanda, Tanzania
South Africa said on Wednesday that Foreign Minister Nkosazana Zuma would travel to Rwanda to this week to sign a general agreement on bilateral cooperation between the South Africa and Rwanda governments.

Zuma will also visit Tanzania to attend the Ministerial Conference on Security, Stability, Development and Cooperation in Africa (CSSDCA). A statement by department said that Zuma was also likely to hold meetings on the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), particularly violations of the Lusaka peace deal.

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10 Dec 1999

Angola + 11 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 49 covering the period 4 - 10 Dec 1999

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ZIMBABWE: Protest march planned

Opponents of President Robert Mugabe, said this week they were planning a series of nationwide marches at the weekend to protest against a new draft constitution they say is flawed in favour of his ruling ZANU-PF party despite months of soliciting public opinion over a new constitution.

Morgan Tsvangirai, general secretary

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09 Dec 1999

Burundi + 5 others
Bulletin quotidien d'information No. 819 pour la région des Grands Lacs

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NATIONS UNIES
Bureau de coordination des affaires humanitaires
Réseau intégré d'information régional
Pour l'Afrique centrale et de l'Est
Tel : +254 2 622147
Fax : +254 2 622129
E-mail : irin@ocha.unon.org

REPUBLIQUE DEMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO: Offensive gouvernementale sur deux fronts

Les observateurs de la région estiment que la situation en RDC a empiré depuis septembre, les forces gouvernementales ayant lancé une offensive sur deux fronts. Dans l'Equateur, au nord-ouest du pays, les troupes congolaises et leurs alliés zimbabwéens co mbattent

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09 Dec 1999

Democratic Republic of the Congo + 1 other
Zimbabwe-DRC: Peace process on track

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JOHANNESBURG, 9 December (IRIN) - The peace process in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is "on track" through a combination of high-level contact between the main foreign protagonists and US diplomatic influence, Zimbabwe's presidential spokesman George Charamba told IRIN on Thursday.
"The President is in contact with his colleagues in Rwanda and Uganda," Charamba said. "Hardly two weeks ago the Rwandese presidential affairs minister was here with messages. Four days ago (Ugandan President Yoweri) Museveni was in contact
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09 Dec 1999

Burundi + 5 others
IRIN Update 819 for the Great Lakes

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DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Two-front offensive launched by government

Regional analysts say the situation in DRC has taken a turn for the worse since September, with a two-front offensive launched by government forces. In the northwest Equateur province, DRC troops and their Zimbabwean allies are pitted against rebels of the Mouvement

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07 Dec 1999

Democratic Republic of the Congo + 3 others
Zimbabwe-DRC: JMC to negotiate fate of trapped troops

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JOHANNESBURG, 7 December (IRIN) - A Joint Military Commission (JMC) team is to travel to Rwanda shortly to discuss safe passage for Zimbabwean soldiers trapped by Kigali-backed rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a spokesman for Zimbabwe's Armed Forces Headquarters told IRIN on Tuesday.
The JMC team, comprising representatives of the United Nations, Organisation of African Unity and Zambia, is expected to visit Rwanda in the next seven days to negotiate the safety of 700 Zimbabwean soldiers besieged in the northeastern DRC town of Ikela by Rassemblement
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03 Dec 1999

Angola + 9 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 48 covering the period 27 Nov - 03 Dec 1999

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U N I T E D N A T I O N S
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ZIMBABWE: Protest feared over pay rises for top officials

A government announcement this week of substantial pay rises for cabinet ministers, members of parliament, local chiefs and headmen as Zimbabwe's economy faces its worst crisis in two decades has drawn angry protests from critics of President Robert Mugabe.

An Extraordinary Government Gazette on

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02 Dec 1999

Zimbabwe + 3 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 2 December

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ZIMBABWE: At least 300 elephants poached by ivory hunters
Ivory poachers in Zimbabwe have killed an estimated 350 elephants in the past year, Knight Ridder news reported on Thursday.

Describing what it called "the worst outbreak of ivory smuggling since the animals were taken off the world's endangered species list nearly three years ago", Knight Ridder said according to confidential documents it had obtained, the animals had been killed by poachers using AK-47 automatic rifles. "The gangs used axes or chain saws to hack off the elephants' ivory tusks," leaving the

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02 Dec 1999

Democratic Republic of the Congo + 1 other
Zimbabwe: Mugabe defends DRC intervention

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MAPUTO, 2 December (IRIN) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe this week strongly defended his country's military intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
During a question and answer session at a southern Africa trade and investment conference in the Mozambique capital, Maputo, on Tuesday, Mugabe said: "The Zimbabwean government responded to a call for assistance by the DRC government following the invasion by Uganda and Rwanda."

He added: "I think our decision was a gallant one and our response so far has been just as gallant. We

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01 Dec 1999

Angola + 2 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 1 December

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ANGOLA: New currency launched
The Angolan Central Bank on Wednesday launched a new currency, the kwanza, as part of a monetary reform program to simplify small transactions, news reports said.

The reports quoted Aguinaldo Jaime, the central bank governor, as saying the authorities wanted to do away with the public having to use large wads of the old currency, the readjusted kwanza, when making small purchases. The largest denomination of the new currency will be five kwanzas, which is worth 5 million readjusted kwanzas.

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30 Nov 1999

Angola + 4 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 30 November

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ZIMBABWE: Cholera outbreak
Eight people have died of cholera following an outbreak in the north of the country, the official daily, 'The Herald' reported on Tuesday.

The deaths were reported in Mashonaland West. The newspaper quoted health officials as saying 130 people had contracted the disease over the past month.

ZIMBABWE: Foreign currency restrictions

Zimbabwean exporters holding corporate foreign currency accounts will have to change half their holdings into local currency within 60 days under a plan by Finance Minister Herbert

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26 Nov 1999

Namibia + 6 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 47 covering the period 20-26 November 1999

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UNITED NATIONS
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NAMIBIA: More Angolan refugees flee fighting

Refugees fleeing fighting between Angolan government forces and UNITA rebels have been crossing south into Namibia daily this week as tensions along the 700 km of common frontier increased.

"Our latest refugee figures have grown from 2,300 a few days ago to 2,400," Hesdy G. Rathling, UNHCR's

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26 Nov 1999

Burundi + 9 others
Burundi: IRIN Focus on the Arusha summit

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NAIROBI, 26 November (IRIN) - When regional leaders meet in Arusha, Tanzania, next week to thrash out the future of the Burundi peace mediation, they may well be embarking on a last chance to salvage the peace process and stop a wider regional conflict.
In his latest report, Burundi analyst Jan van Eck of the South Africa-based Centre for Conflict Resolution, says the choice of a suitable mediator to succeed the late Julius Nyerere is crucial. "The decision...will determine whether Burundians will be able to continue to try and find a peaceful negotiated settlement or continue
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