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News Service: 033/99 AI INDEX: 25/03/99 Only weeks after fighting resumed at the border between Eritrea and Ethiopia, Amnesty International today cautiously welcomed yesterday's unexpected release...

KDOM UpdateReleased by the Bureau of European Affairs, Office of South Central European Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC. (Editor's Note: With the progressive changeover of...

WESTERNERS PREPARE TO EVACUATE KOSOVA Foreign aid workers, OSCE monitors, and Western diplomats are preparing to evacuate the province if the Rambouillet talks fail and NATO launches air strikes...

CAIRO, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Congolese Foreign Minister Jean-Charles Okoto Loiakombe said on Tuesday economic sanctions should be imposed on Rwanda and Uganda for sending troops to fight alongside...

At 6:50 PM on Thursday 11 February 1999 an earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale struck the provinces of Wardak, Logar and Kabul. The epicenter of the earthquake was apparently in Wardak...

Thousands of Sierra Leoneans suffer daily from the affects of war - from extreme hunger to physical brutality as Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels attack communities to gain control of this...

The European Union has decided in principle to send a three-nation team to the Horn of Africa to work towards resolving the war between Eritrea and Ethiopia. The EU troika, made up of states holding...

NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya will be hit by a severe famine in the next two months, comparable only to the 1984 one that ravaged the country and left hundreds destitute, according to climate and...

KABUL, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Thousands of people, including children, are living without shelter in extreme cold after last week's earthquake, south of the Afghan capital Kabul, and need immediate...

JOHANNESBURG, 16 February (IRIN) Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has sent a message to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan saying there was no longer any justification for the UN Observer...

Appeal Target: US$ 582,611 Geneva, 16 February 1999 Dear Colleagues, The conflict in northern Uganda has raged for 11 years now. Various rebel groups have emerged and disbanded while others have...

MAPUTO -- The United Nations World Food Programme has approved a $2.7-million emergency operation to feed about 80,000 people in southern Mozambique over the next four months who are facing extreme...

JOHANNESBURG, 16 February (IRIN) - WFP has said reports of rising malnutrition among more than half a million displaced people in Angola were becoming a cause of "extreme concern" as more and more...

SARAJEVO, Feb 16 (Reuters) - International peace coordinator Carlos Westendorp on Tuesday rejected a demand for a separate territory for Bosnian Croats, saying this would violate the 1995 Dayton...

LOME, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Guinea-Bissau rebel leader Ansumane Mane said on Tuesday he was optimistic that peace would hold in the West African country and that a government of national unity could...

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (PANA) The World Food Programme has launched a massive campaign in Burundi to distribute food in order to protect seeds. The operation, which began last week and will continue till...

DAKAR, Senegal (PANA) - The European Commissioner in charge of humanitarian affairs, Emma Bonino, left Dakar Tuesday at the end of a tour of some West African countries, saying she is worried about...

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:...

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@ocha.unon.org NIGERIA:...

JOHANNESBURG, 16 February (IRIN) The Angolan government this week said it had recaptured the Zaire Province capital of M'banza Congo in northern Angola nearly three weeks after it was occupied by...