Updates

New York, May 13, 1998 - In a letter to President Laurent Desiré Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Human Rights Watch today denounced the arrest of Suliman Baldo, its DRC country...

Afghanistan's hard line Taliban army has told aid organizations they too will be governed by Islamic law. Since taking control of Kabul in 1996 the Taliban Islamic army has imposed a harsh version of...

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-CEA : Bulletin quotidien...

Press Release No. 98/18 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) today approved a three-year loan for Albania under the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility (ESAF)1, equivalent to SDR 35.3 million...

Community Aid Abroad has launched a major appeal to urgently raise funds for the hundreds of thousands of people threatened with famine in Sudan. After witnessing some of the worst areas, Community...

(98-31) News Release May 13, 1998 Ottawa -- The Honourable Diane Marleau, Minister for International Cooperation and Minister responsible for La Francophonie, today highlighted Canada's assistance to...

Bingo! The host of officials behind the scanner at the Njili International Airport here have found something suspect in the departing passenger's suitcase: newspapers! ''Local newspapers are not...

Press Release IHA/658 NEW YORK, 13 May (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- The United Nations today warmly welcomed the announcement from the Government of Sudan that it would,...

No. 27/98 Warsaw, 13 May 1998 -- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Polish Foreign Minister Bronislaw Geremek, welcomed the announcement of a meeting between the President of the Federal Republic of...

Results of a World Vision Sudan nutritional assessment conducted in 2 payams (districts) in Bahr el Ghazal's Gogrial County have revealed an alarming global malnutrition rate of 40.8 percent. Global...

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...

Vanguard ASEAN-ADB Initiative to Design, Implement and Monitor H.E. Prof. Dr. Juwono Sudarsono, Indonesian State Minister of the Environment today opened the Regional Inception Workshop of the...

This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations. Traumatized Sierra Leonean refugees continue to arrive in Guinea, fleeing the...

News Release No. 98/1758/ECA WASHINGTON, May 12, 1998 - The World Bank today approved a US$17 million equivalent (SDR 12.6 million) credit to Albania for a Health System Recovery and Development...

This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations. Kampala Conference The two-day meeting in Kampala last week on Refugee Issues in the...

KUALA LUMPUR, May 12 (Reuters) - The Malaysian government on Tuesday asked non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to help establish a fund to fight smoke from forest and bush fires in the region. But...

This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations. Kosovo UNHCR believes that the number of persons displaced as a result of the tense...

News Release No. 98/1759/ECA WASHINGTON, May 12, 1998 - The World Bank today approved a US$17 million equivalent (SDR12.6 million) credit to Albania for the Durres Port Project. The project will...

KINSHASA, Congo (PANA) - A two-day experts meeting is due to begin Tuesday in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo, to prepare for a 16-nation summit Friday on insecurity within the Great Lakes...

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