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Nairobi - A two-member Caritas Italiana team has completed an extensive tour of Southern Sudan aimed at identifying ways and means in which the Italian NGO can help alleviate the suffering of the thousands of civilian victims of the civil war.

The team, whose visit during last month lasted four days, included Paolo Cereda, who is Caritas Italiana manager in charge of international programmes and Davide Invernizzi, who is the organisation's programme manager in the Eastern Africa region. The Bishop

Luanda - A group of intellectuals have announced that they would join Angola's main peace movement, amid reports of continuing violence against civilians in the war-torn country.

The group, called the Group for Reflection on Peace GRP, said last week that it would be joining forces with two other groups: the Angolan Group for Reflection on Peace GARP and the Group for the Promotion of a Culture of Peace GAP.

GARP and GAP merged in August in an effort to become more effective in their search for a peaceful solution to the

Addis Ababa - Spokesman of the OAU said last Monday that the Organization's peace plan to solve the Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict can never be implemented without an immediate cease fire.

In its monthly press conference at the OAU headquarters, Ambassador Ibrahim Dagash emphasized that "the 11 points in the plan should be implemented," as they bind Ethiopia and Eritrea which have both accepted it.

The OAU still regards the framework which was formulated after the conflict erupted as "very much in tact."

Flying over the forest from the Ruwenzori mountains of south-western Uganda, one sees no sign of man: no road, no village, no puff of smoke across hundreds of kilometres of the northern Democratic Republic of Congo, until the concrete slash through the trees that is Kisangani international airport. The three- storey terminal building is empty and crumbling; air traffic control is one man with a 10- or 15-

About 700 others have been injured since UNITA rebels launched an offensive against territories held by the government, the Integrated Regional Information Network IRIN reported.

Malanje, situated 400 km east of the capital Luanda, came under renewed long-range artillery fire from Jonas Savimbi's rebels last week, resulting in five deaths last Friday, according to local officials.

Custom Officials also say some of the fleeing civilians are from the vilages of Sheakaika,Mawadia, Wula and Masene

The enlisting of children has enraged

Mogadishu - The initiatives of women in peace processes in war torn countries in Africa have often been disregarded. The prejudices they face every day are significant. But women in Somalia are now setting a new example. AANA Correspondent Frederick Nzwili reports.

Safia Giama cannot hold back her tears anymore. Days before the end of the holy month of Ramadhan, nine people were brutally murdered, in a prison hut in Southern Somalia. Among them was Abdirizak Hirsi Dheere, a 58-year-old bank worker and trade unionist. He was Safia's uncle.