Data Sources: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, United Nations Environment Programme, Population Action International
Morocco + 37 more
Morocco + 37 more
Data Sources: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, United Nations Environment Programme, Population Action International
KAMPALA, Dec 31, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Uganda People's Defense Forces (UPDF) on Sunday rescued 26 abductees from the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in Pader district in northern...
REPORT SUMMARY Refugees living in Kyangwali settlement in Hoima District are among the most self sufficient of Uganda's settlement refugees. Though the economy is diverse and complex, there are still...
Afghanistan + 31 more
This document supplements the ICRC's Headquarters Appeal 2003and contains: an overview of the ICRC's operations in 2003 a description of its presence in the field a breakdown of its operational...
Uganda + 1 more
NAIROBI, 30 December (IRIN) - The leader of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), Joseph Kony, has reportedly telephoned a radio station in northern Uganda to say he is ready to enter peace talks...
NAIROBI, 27 December (IRIN) - The Ugandan government this week signed a peace deal with over 2,000 former soldiers of the exiled former president, Idi Amin, following five years of negotiations. The...
Afghanistan + 24 more
This report includes: (A) Global Hunger Alert (B) Southern Africa Region: (1) Regional Overview, (2) Lesotho, (3) Malawi, (4) Mozambique, (5) Swaziland, (6) Zambia, (7) Zimbabwe, (8) Angola, (9)...
DR Congo + 2 more
BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - The main rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo said on Monday it had recaptured the port of Uvira after three days of heavy fighting with government-allied militias...
WFP Press Briefing - Geneva WFP is extremely concerned about the impact of deteriorating security on Northern Uganda's humanitarian crisis. Some 800,000 displaced people in the area need food aid - a...
Sudan + 1 more
KAMPALA, (Reuters) - The Ugandan army said on Thursday it had damaged the capacity of Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels to wage war and only small groups of the guerrillas were still active. "We...
Rwanda + 2 more
NAIROBI, 19 December (IRIN) - A Ugandan minister has said her country will not accept Rwandan refugees who have left Tanzania seeking asylum, according to the privately owned Kampala newspaper, the...
DR Congo + 1 more
[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] RWEBISHENGO, 18 December (IRIN) - Gilbert Balikya radiates enthusiasm for a cause he knows he must support. In the...
DR Congo + 1 more
INTRODUCTION The northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) region of Ituri is bracing itself for a new round of conflict, "ethnic cleansing" and civilian desperation, even as peace talks...
Uganda + 1 more
KAMPALA, Dec 18, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- About 10,000 Congolese refugees who fled war from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) into Nebbi district, western Uganda some weeks ago are living...
Sudan + 1 more
KAMPALA, Dec 18, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- About 15,000 refugees originally displaced on Achol-Pii refugee settlement camp in northern Pader district are to be relocated to Arua and Yumbe...
Afghanistan + 41 more
Highlights Latest information confirms a sharp drop in global cereal production in 2002, to 1 833 million tonnes. As a result of this, and a marginal rise expected in total cereal utilization in...
Rwanda + 2 more
KAMPALA, Dec 18, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Ugandan government will not accept Rwandese refugees now fleeing from Tanzania to settle in Uganda, reported local daily the Monitor on Wednesday...
DR Congo + 2 more
JOHANNESBURG, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Following is a list of the main domestic players in the Democratic Republic of Congo's four-year-old war, which has killed an estimated two million people. The major...
Afghanistan + 10 more
At a United Nations Headquarters Press Conference today, Olara Otunnu, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, launched a new report, in which the...
Malawi + 20 more
ROME - The United Nations World Food Programme today officially launched the Africa Hunger Alert campaign, aimed at drawing international attention to the unprecedented hunger crisis gripping the...