Great Lakes: IRIN Update 112 for 1 Mar 1997 97.3.1

- International staff of UN agencies and international NGOs were today evacuated by 12.15 local time from Kisangani, eastern Zaire, to the Zairean capital, Kinshasa. Three flights evacuated international staff. A WFP representative said that national staff remained

OLS Programmes Update

Annual UN inter-agency appeal launched

On 18 February, the United Nations appealed

- Mohamed Ibrahim Egal has been re-elected for a second five-year term as -President of Somaliland.- His first priority is recognition for the country.

- Joint drought task forces including local authorities, UN, and NGOs began water trucking and borehole repair in the Northwest and Northeast regions, A plan of action for assistance for the southern and central regions of the country seeks funding after endorsement from the SACB.

- Although malnutrition has not shown

28 FEBRUARY 1997

1. Current situation

Present tendency is for water to recede. There has been no rain for four days in the provinces of Sofala and Tete, while some rains have been recorded in Zambezia. People are still being rescued in Zambezia as helicopters begun operating in that area only recently. An air-bridge to Sofala has provided 14 MT of relief food. The number of those most affected, requiring priority assistance, is 11, 300 in Tete and 15,000 in Sofala. Assessment of

"We are not close to a ceasefire agreement, we are close to negotiations," he said.

After initially shrouding the two days

Hopes that a Government of National Unity and Reconciliation (GNUR) would be established by the end of January were dashed when, on January 23, the Government of Angola announced that the installation of the GNUR had been postponed due to UNITA delays in implementing its political commitments. At the end of December UNITA and the Government had agreed to a timetable for implementing the political tasks outlined in the Lusaka Protocol. Under that timetable, UNITA was to have sent its deputies and leadership to Luanda on January 10. UNITA deputies were to