By Andualem Sisay African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) says that the global economic crises could threaten to derail Uganda's national health budgets. Currently half of Uganda's health...
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Sudan: A civil war turned against school children
Subj: Africanews feb. 2000 - Date: 2/16/00 8:31:41 AM Eastern Standard Time AFRICANEWS - News and Views on Africa from Africa - Issue 47 - February 2000 Human Rights By Stephen Amin Fourteen school...
Burundi + 2 more
Burundi Peace talks: Great mountains yet to climb
AFRICANEWS - News and Views on Africa from Africa - Issue 45 - December 1999 Peace by Mary Kimani It was expected that nine Great Lakes region presidents would attend the meeting in Arusha, Tanzania...
Liberia + 1 more
Liberia/Sierra Leone: Warlords reap from a 'children's war'
AFRICANEWS - News and Views on Africa from Africa - Issue 45 - December 1999 by Linda de Hoyos Children have been so badly abused in wars.The challenge now facing the two countries is disarming,...
Liberia: 10,000 Ex-Combatants Terrorise Ordinary Citizens
MONROVIA December 13 - The Liberian government is grappling with the task of resettling nearly 10,000 ex-combatants in a bid to keep them off street, and from terrorising civilians. About 5,000...
Sudan: Millions Of Flood Victims Seek Relief Supplies To Begin Anew
KHARTOUM - As the world prepares for the year 2000, many Sudanese victims of this year's floods would be among those welcoming the new year in pain. For them, the beginning of the year would not be a...
War and Peace in Angola
Angola's armed forces are battling to turn the tide in nine months of fresh conflict with UNITA rebels, but have had some success in recent days after two failed offensives. UNITA said in a statement...
Sudan: Starvation Looms As Rains Fail Again In Ghazal Region
Nairobi - At least 250,000 people in Sudan's Bahr El Ghazal region are threatened with starvation, the Catholic Bishop of Diocese of Rumbek, Monsignor Caesar Mazzolari, has said. Speaking here last...
Congo: Forgotten War Takes Toll On Population
Nairobi - An eight-month bloody civil war has raged in Congo-Brazzaville between the army and militias loyal to ousted President Pascal Lisouba. But despite the intensity of the fighting and the...
Burundi + 7 more
Humanitarian Agencies Focus On Poverty, Medical Systems
NAIROBI - Rising poverty, widespread insecurity and the weakness of medical systems of many African states have brought a fresh response from Red Cross and Red Crescent societies. With millions...
Sierra Leone: For The Love Of Motherland: Peace! What Peace?
by Sheila Mesa in Geneva Nairobi - As the Sierra Leone peace talks in Northern Togo continue to stall, Sierra Leoneans remain sceptical of its outcome. The announcement that the government is willing...
Report Warns Of Rising Levels Of Malnutrition Among Youth
by Stephen Mbogo in Nairobi JOHANNESBURG - Child malnutrition in Angola is now believed to have reached levels worse than at any previous time in over 20 years of civil war, according to a new report...
Burundi + 6 more
Excited Exchanges Over The Continuing War In DRC
May 28, 1999 by Osman Njuguna in Nairobi NAIROBI May 31 -As the summit for the heads of state of the COMESA member countries ended here on May 25, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda engaged...
Sudan: Investigators Cite Relapsing Fever As 'Mystery' Epidemic
Nairobi - Investigations by an international team during March and April have identified the epidemic that has ravaged Rumbek County since last year as louse-borne relapsing fever. Consequently, a...
Sudan War: A History Of Unsuccessful Alliances
Khartoum - Sudan's rulers in Khartoum face many problems other than the civil war in which they have failed to defeat the rebels from both the south and the north grouped under Eritrea-based National...
Eritrea + 1 more
New mediation proposed for Ethiopia-Eritrea dispute
Alexandria, Virginia - The following document was released by the International Strategic Studies Association on October 9, 1998: A new offer of mediation has been made to end the deadlock in the...
Sudan SPLA Ceasefire: Humanitarian or strategic?
Sudan's main rebel group SPLA on July 15 declared a unilateral cease-fire to ease relief operations in the famine-stricken Bahr el-Ghazal province. The government quickly responded by agreeing to the...
MONUA update
There are signs that the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola (MONUA) is struggling to meet its international obligations as military attacks by the rebel movement UNITA increase. The decision...
Retribution or Restoration for Rwanda?
In mid November 1997, the writer attended sessions of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) being held in Arusha, northern Tanzania. In this article he argues, in the main, that...
The challenge ahead of the Church
AFRICANEWS News and Wiews on Africa from Africa Issue 21 - DECEMBER 1997 Sierra Leone has been drained of every iota of human dignity. This is not an extremist position, it is the naked reality. The...