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Liberia's Taylor sees no need for truth commission

MONROVIA, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Liberian President Charles Taylor dismissed on Friday a proposal to set up a South African style truth commission to hear people accused of committing crimes during the civil war.

"There is no need to reconcile through a truth commission," Taylor told a forum organised by his own National Reconciliation and Reunification Commission.

"Let us bury the hatchet and move on... This country is too small for a truth commission," he said.

The reconciliation commission is run

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Benin + 24 others
IRIN-WA Weekly Roundup 35 covering the period 26 Aug - 01 Sep 2000

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UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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SIERRA LEONE: RUF fighters return six UN armoured vehicles

Anti-government Revolutionary United Front (RUF) fighters have returned six UN armoured vehicles seized in May when they detained hundreds of UN peacekeepers. RUF 'Brigadier General' Moussa Kallon turned over the vehicles on Wednesday to the deputy commander

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Liberia + 1 other
Letter from the President of Liberia to the Secretary-General

S/2000/844

Letter dated 28 August 2000 from the President of Liberia addressed to the Secretary-General

I extend compliments on behalf of the people of Liberia and in my own name to you on the occasion of the convocation of the Millennium Summit, where leaders of the world would be expected to define problems besetting our global family and determine solutions in the alleviation of those problems, engendering hope in the future of our one world and carving new aspirations for the United Nations. Against

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Côte d'Ivoire + 4 others
IRIN Update 794 of events in West Africa

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SIERRA LEONE: RUF fighters return six UN armoured vehicles

Anti-government Revolutionary United Front (RUF) fighters have returned six UN armoured vehicles seized in May when they detained Kenyan and Zambian UN peacekeeping troops, Reuters reported.

RUF 'Brigadier General' Moussa Kallon turned over the vehicles on Wednesday to the deputy commander of the UN

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Angola + 15 others
Food supply situation and crop prospects in Sub-Saharan Africa No. 2/00

August 2000
INTRODUCTION

This is the second of three annual issues of this report prepared by the FAO Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) on the food supply situation and cereal import and food aid requirements for all countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The report is designed to provide the latest analysis and information on the food situation in these countries to governments, international organizations and other institutions engaged in relief operations.

Part I focuses on the continuing critical

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Afghanistan + 19 others
WHO: EHA Highlights Issue 2, Aug 2000

New documents published in August and available at EHA:
  • Angola: Update on the Situation of Meningitis in the Country
  • Angola: Epidemic Outbreaks Update
  • Kosovo Health Talks 30 and 31
  • Health Situation Report West Timor
  • Interim Health Policy Guidelines for Kosovo
  • Humanitarian Action and Public Health in Disasters. Allocation of National and International Resources, EHA Paper for the World Congress on Medicine and Health, Hanover 21 July - 20 August
For comments, further information and requests, please contact:
WHO/EHA, External Relations
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Burkina Faso + 3 others
IRIN Update 793 of events in West Africa

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SIERRA LEONE: Relatives of renegades to press for freedom of soldiers

Relatives of renegade soldiers holding 11 British troops and one Sierra Leonean soldier have agreed to persuade their captors to free the hostages, the former leader of a junta to which the renegades used to be loyal told Reuters.

Johnny Paul Koroma, whose Armed Forces

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Mid-year 2000: Liberia: Lingering Instability

About 200,000 Liberians remained refugees in neighboring countries in late July, and intermittent cycles of violence in the country's remote northern region continued to push additional Liberians from their homes.
Liberian government officials claimed that an incursion by armed dissidents in July took control of several towns in northern Liberia's Upper Lofa County and forced 30,000 people to flee to other villages. The government declared a state of emergency in the county in mid-July.

It was impossible to confirm independently

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Burkina Faso + 8 others
IRIN-WA Weekly Roundup 34 covering the period 19 to 25 Aug 2000

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SIERRA LEONE: Some 254 ex-government soldiers airlifted to Kenema

Some 254 former government troops were airlifted on Thursday from the Daru Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) camp to Kenema after receiving clearance to join the new Sierra Leone Army, UNAMSIL said. The recruits were taken to join colleagues in Kenema

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Côte d'Ivoire + 4 others
IRIN Update 790 of events in West Africa

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SIERRA LEONE: UN, government troops beat back RUF attacks

Sierra Leonean troops and UN peacekeepers beat back an attack on Wednesday by Revolutionary United Front fighters near Port Loko, some 60 km northeast of Freetown, UN spokesman Fred Eckhard told reporters in New York. Two Nigerian members of the UN Mission in Sierra

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Angola + 10 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 34 covering the period 19-25 Aug 2000

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NAMIBIA: Deteriorating security situation

As the security situation in northern Namibian continues to deteriorate, Namibia's northern regional council this week ordered the withdrawal of Angolan armed forces (FAA) from Kavango in a bid to end attacks on villagers by armed groups. The eight regional councillors, all members of the ruling SWAPO party resolved to restrict

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Burkina Faso + 8 others
Bulletin hebdomadaire d'information No. 34 pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest

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(du 19 au 25 août 2000)

SIERRA LEONE: 254 anciens soldats gouvernementaux emmenés à Kenema

Quelque 254 anciens soldats gouvernementaux

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Côte d'Ivoire + 4 others
Bulletin d'information No. 790 pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest

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NATIONS UNIES
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SIERRA LEONE: Deux attaques du RUF repoussées

Les troupes sierra-léonaises et les casques bleus des Nations Unies ont repoussé mercredi une attaque des combattants

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Liberia + 1 other
Liberia: Humanitarian Assistance Appeal No. 01.05/2000 Situation Report No. 1

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Period covered: 1 January - 30 June 2000
Although a lack of funds and donor support has had an impact on operations, hampering the implementation and planning of institutional development activities and programme co-ordination of the delegation as described in the appeal, most objectives were achieved and the progress is encouraging. Further funding is required to maintain the momentum of the ongoing programmes and to implement the full range of planned activities, particularly as the Liberian Red Cross Society (LRCS) is experiencing management and governance challenges.

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Disease Outbreaks Reported: Yellow fever in Liberia

On 16 August 2000, the Ministry of Health (MOH), Liberia confirmed an outbreak of yellow fever (YF) in Grand Cape Mount County Liberia (see map below). To date, the authorities have detected 29 cases meeting the case definition, including 3 deaths, originating from 2 districts in the county. A report of one case in a third district has not yet been verified. Laboratory results have confirmed yellow fever IgM in 1 of 5 clinical samples sent to Institut Pasteur, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, for testing; virus detection is now underway in this and the other samples.
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Benin + 4 others
Bulletin d'information No. 789 pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest

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NATIONS UNIES
Bureau de coordination des affaires humanitaires
IRIN pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest
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LIBERIA: Manifestation contre les sanctions

Quelque 2 500 personnes ont marché dans les rues de Monrovia mercredi pour protester contre la menace de sanctions économiques lancée par les Etats-Unis et la Grande-Bretagne en représailles contre la présumée implication du Liberia dans la guerre en Sierra Leone voisine, ont indiqué des sources diplomatiques.

Cette marche, organisée par le 'National

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Ghana + 4 others
IRIN Update 788 of events in West Africa

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SIERRA LEONE: Annan opens meeting with UNAMSIL contributing countries

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Wednesday told top military officials of countries that contribute troops to the UN Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) that all contingents must be equally willing and ready to share the risk of the operation.

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Ghana + 4 others
Bulletin d'information No. 788 pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest

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SIERRA LEONE: Réunion des pays fournissant des troupes à la MINUSIL

Le Secrétaire Général des Nations Unies, Kofi Annan, a déclaré mercredi aux hauts responsables militaires des pays qui fournissent des troupes à la Mission des Nations Unies en Sierra Leone (MINUSIL) que tous les contingents devaient être prêts à partager les risques de l'opération.

"Je dois souligner que le chef de

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Burkina Faso + 6 others
IRIN Update 786 of events in West Africa

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SIERRA LEONE: Some 254 ex-government soldiers airlifted to Kenema

Some 254 former government troops were airlifted on Thursday from the Daru Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) camp to Kenema after receiving clearance to join the new Sierra Leone Army, UNAMSIL said.

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Liberia: President's threats worry overseas-based opposition

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ABIDJAN, 18 August (IRIN) - Overseas-based opposition politicians say they are being cautious following threats by President Charles Taylor to arrest them if they return to Liberia. "I now have to reassess the situation," former presidential candidate Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf told IRIN. "I had plans to go there and spend all of the last two weeks of September."
Johnson-Sirleaf runs a venture capital fund in Abidjan, where she has lived for more than two years. She was defeated by Taylor in 1997 elections that ended seven years of civil war. Most people
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