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01 Apr 1998

Burundi
Internally Displaced Populations Living in Sites in Burundi

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— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Over 70 % of Burundi's IDP populatoin are located in the five western-most provinces which are most affected by instability. UN access in these areas is limited due to insecurity and the danger of mines.
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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01 Apr 1998

World
Humanitarian Action in Protracted Crises: The New Relief 'Agenda' and its Limits

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— ODI - Humanitarian Practice Network
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Offering a synthesis of ideas regarding international responses to humanitarian tragedies, this paper examines the new relief 'agenda' emerging in response to the claim that at best relief aid does not contribute to solutions and at worst may fuel conflict.

Suggesting that the shortcomings of current responses to crisis by the international community stem from a failure to recognise key features of the new environment in which aid is delivered, it provides the following chapters:  

- Uncovering the assault on humanitarian values
- Origins of the assault on relief

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01 Apr 1998

World
U.S. Military Interaction with Humanitarian Assistance Organisations during Small-Scale Contingencies

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— Government of the United States of America
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This paper considers the effectiveness of U.S. military interaction with humanitarian assistance organisations, obstacles to their interaction and possible ways of improving these relationships.

The paper is based on a literature review conducted to examine recent U.S. military interaction with humanitarian assistance organisations in regional conflicts in northern Iraq, Haiti and Bosnia, as well as draws on the author's personal experience.

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01 Apr 1998

World
Forced Migration Review No. 1 - Internal Displacement

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— Forced Migration Review, University of Oxford
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Forced Migration Review provides a forum for the regular exchange of practical experience, information and ideas between researchers, refugees and internally displaced people, and those who work with them. It is published three times a year in English, Spanish and Arabic by Refugee Studies Center/ University of Oxford in association with the Global IDP Project/ Norwegian Refugee Council.

The first issue carries a special feature on IDPs.

Content

- Forced migration within national borders: the IDP agenda, by Jon Bennett
- The Three Gorges: the unexamined toll
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01 Apr 1998

Brazil + 1 other
Burning jungles pollute the world's remote spaces

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— Australian Broadcasting Corporation
A group of American scientists have likened the smog caused by Asian, Australian and South American bushfires to the smog that makes Los Angeles air, the dirtiest in America.

Nobel Laureate F. Sherwood Rowland is among the scientists who released a report following a series of Nasa sponsored research flights to islands from the Galapagos to Fiji.

They traced the pollutants to massive agricultural burning in areas where farmers were clearing land to plant crops and graze cattle.

The scientists are concerned at the extent

Australian Broadcasting Corporation:

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01 Apr 1998

Peru
Visits to detainees and aid for victims of El Niño

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— ICRC
ICRC NEWS 13
To help combat a cholera epidemic in La Merced prison, the ICRC last week provided the detaining authorities with cleaning products, chlorine and rehydration salts.

Over the past few weeks, ICRC delegates have visited 1,380 detainees (about 60 of them for the first time) in places of detention under the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice. They also saw some 80 people (20 of them for the first time) held in facilities run by the Ministry of the Interior, and visited a dozen detainees in places

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01 Apr 1998

Tajikistan
Renewed outbreak of violence

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— ICRC
ICRC NEWS 13
The fighting that has been raging around Kofarnikhon, 20 km east of the capital Dushanbe, has already claimed close to 100 victims since violence flared up again on 24 March. More than 30 wounded have been registered in hospitals in Dushanbe which have received ICRC emergency medical supplies. As security conditions are preventing ICRC delegates from reaching Kofarnikhon, the local branch of the Red Crescent Society of Tajikistan has delivered medical aid to the local hospital, which is reportedly treating several dozen war wounded.

The ICRC has been working in the country

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01 Apr 1998

Afghanistan
Afghanistan Weekly Update No. 258

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— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Humanitarian Assistance for Afghanistan
Pledges and contributions

The Government of Japan has pledged just over US$2.2 million to a consortium of UN agencies to fund a wide range of rehabilitation activities in the districts of Azro and Tizin, eastern Afghanistan. Priorities were identified as a result of extensive discussions with refugee groups in Pakistan and community organizations in Afghanistan. The integrated programme links the UNDP P.E.A.C.E. initiative with UNHCR's new group repatriation scheme.

UN airfares reduced by 50%

A UK government contribution to UNOCHA

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01 Apr 1998

Malaysia
Air pollution in Malaysia worsens

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— Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Residents in the Malaysian town of Miri have been advised to stay home and wear masks as air pollution hovers at dangerous levels

The air pollution index in the town in Sarawak state on Borneo island has been over the hazardous 500-mark for the past four days

Pollution has worsened as smoke billows in from fires in neighbouring Sabah state and the Indonesian province of Kalimantan.

Natural disaster relief officials have advised polluting industries such as quarries, mines and sawmills to cut operations

The state government is also appealing

Australian Broadcasting Corporation:

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01 Apr 1998

Brazil
Brazil - El Niño Forest Fires OCHA Situation Report No. 2

Report
— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Ref: OCHAGVA - 98/0178
UNDAC TEAM

1. At the request of the Government of Brazil, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has dispatched a United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team to assist in the joint assessment of the emergency situation and international relief requirements to combat the forest fires that are presently devastating areas in the state of Roraima in Brazil.

2. On Sunday, 29 March 1998, the seven-person UNDAC Team, including two United Nations Environment Programme

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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01 Apr 1998

Democratic Republic of the Congo
UN massacre probe in Congo faces fresh problems

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— Reuters - AlertNet
By Arthur Malu-Malu
KINSHASA, April 1 (Reuters) - Relations between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a U.N. team hunting for evidence of massacres of Rwandan Hutu refugees in the former Zaire have taken a turn for the worse -- with forensic experts leaving for home.

Team leader Atsu-Kofi Amega of Togo told Reuters on Wednesday that investigators still faced problems in the eastern town of Goma and that an incident over a mass grave in the northwestern town of Mbandaka had led the four forensic experts on the team to pull out of the country on Saturday.

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01 Apr 1998

Rwanda
Rwanda mourns April 1994 genocide victims

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— Reuters - AlertNet
KIGALI, April 1 (Reuters) - Rwanda has devised a new way of helping citizens commemorate the dark days of its 1994 genocide -- a map showing areas where the worst killings took place.
The map shows more than 100 administrative communes across the central African country in which hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered in a three-month genocide that began four years ago on April 6.

Rwanda on Wednesday began a week of mourning to commemorate the slaughter of an estimated 800,000 people Tutsis and moderate Hutus by Hutu extremists.

"Foreign guests will be invited

Reuters - AlertNet:



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01 Apr 1998

Somalia
UN Expresses Concern Over Renewed Fighting

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— Inter Press Service
Copyright 1998 Inter Press Service.
All rights reserved. Distribution via MISANET.

By Moyiga Nduru

NAIROBI, Apr 1 (IPS) -- The United Nations has expressed concern over renewed fighting in Somalia, saying this will affect relief work and impede progress towards national reconciliation.

The United Nations Representative in Somalia, Dominic Langenbacher, said inter-clan clashes in the city of Kismayo and a rise in banditry and insecurity in the capital, Mogadishu, would only compound the suffering of the Somali people.

''In the city of Kismayo, ongoing inter-clan

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01 Apr 1998

Angola + 5 others
Bulletin quotidien no 386 d'information sur l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est

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— IRIN
NATIONS UNIES
Bureau de la coordination des affaires humanitaires
IRIN - Afrique Centrale et de l'Est
Tel: +254 2 622 147
Fax: +254 2 622 129
e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org

IRIN: Bulletin quotidien no 386 d'information sur l'Afrique Centrale et de l'Est (du mardi 31 mars 1998)

BURUNDI :

Fermeture d'une agence de presse, saisie d'un journal d'opposition

Les autorites burundaises ont convoque le directeur de l'agence de presse Net Press, pour avoir publie une depeche sur la saisie des exemplaires d'un journal de l'opposition, a rapporte

IRIN:

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This article does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations or its agencies. Refer to the IRIN copyright page for conditions of use.

Cet article ne reflète pas nécessairement les vues des Nations Unies. Voir IRIN droits d'auteur pour les conditions d'utilisation.

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01 Apr 1998

Angola + 4 others
IRIN Update No. 387 for Central and Eastern Africa

Report
— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network
for Central and Eastern Africa
Tel: +254 2 622147
Fax: +254 2 622129
e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org

IRIN Update No. 387 for Central and Eastern Africa (Wednesday 1 April 1998)

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Draft constitution under debate

President Laurent-Desire Kabila is considering a draft constitution, handed to him yesterday (Tuesday) by a constitutional committee. According to media reports, the draft envisages a five-year

IRIN:

A selection of IRIN reports are posted on ReliefWeb. Find more IRIN news and analysis at http://www.irinnews.org

Une sélection d'articles d'IRIN sont publiés sur ReliefWeb. Trouvez d'autres articles et analyses d'IRIN sur http://www.irinnews.org

This article does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations or its agencies. Refer to the IRIN copyright page for conditions of use.

Cet article ne reflète pas nécessairement les vues des Nations Unies. Voir IRIN droits d'auteur pour les conditions d'utilisation.

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01 Apr 1998

Burundi + 1 other
Security incidents force Burundians to flee to DR Congo

Report
— UN Department of Public Information
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Wednesday that approximately 15,000 Burundians had fled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in March as a result of security incidents around Bujumbura.
UNHCR said that around 3,000 people had sought refuge near Sange and Kiliba, 40 and 25 kilometres north of Uvira respectively. The United Nations refugee agency said that the refugees had told of renewed fighting in the Buganda, Murwi and Gihanga communes in Burundi.

UNHCR said that it was planning to open

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01 Apr 1998

Angola
Peace process in Angola is not completed as scheduled

Report
— UN Department of Public Information
A United Nations spokesman said on Wednesday that the peace process in Angola has not been completed as scheduled.
United Nations Spokesman Juan Carlos Brandt told reporters that Tuesday was to have marked the conclusion of the 1994 Lusaka Protocol, but that did not prove to be the case. Radio Vorgan of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) continued to broadcast on Wednesday morning, in spite of assurances given by UNITA that it would cease on 31 March. "So as far as this particular issue is concerned, we will believe it when we don't hear it," he
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01 Apr 1998

Liberia + 1 other
IRIN-WA Update 178 of Events in West Africa

Report
— IRIN
UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network
for West Africa
Tel: +225 21-73-54
Fax: +225 21-63-35
e-mail: irin-wa@africaonline.co.ci

IRIN-WA Update 178 of Events in West Africa, (Wednesday) 1 April 1998

SIERRA LEONE: Commonwealth delegation meets president

A high-level Commonwealth delegation arrived in the Sierra Leonean capital, Freetown, on Monday for talks with President Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, media organisations reported. The

IRIN:

A selection of IRIN reports are posted on ReliefWeb. Find more IRIN news and analysis at http://www.irinnews.org

Une sélection d'articles d'IRIN sont publiés sur ReliefWeb. Trouvez d'autres articles et analyses d'IRIN sur http://www.irinnews.org

This article does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations or its agencies. Refer to the IRIN copyright page for conditions of use.

Cet article ne reflète pas nécessairement les vues des Nations Unies. Voir IRIN droits d'auteur pour les conditions d'utilisation.

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01 Apr 1998

United Republic of Tanzania
Heavy rains disrupt delivery of aid to refugee camps in Tanzania

Report
— UN Department of Public Information
Heavy rains have disrupted delivery of aid to the refugee camps along unpaved roads between Kigoma and Ngara in the United Republic of Tanzania, the United Nations refugee agency said on Wednesday.
In its latest update on the Great Lakes region, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said that it had worked with non- governmental organizations to make the worst sections near Kibondo passable. However, sections of the road to the Lugufu camp, which is sheltering 30,000 people, were underwater causing routine

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