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This report includes: A) Sierra Leone B) Guinea Bissau C) Angola D) Somalia E) Central Africa: DR Congo and Congo/Brazzaville F) Democratic People's Republic of Korea G) Afghanistan. From Manuel...

Ref: OCHAGVA - 99/0039 1. In response to the extensive damage caused by Hurricane Mitch in Central America, a United Nations Inter-Agency Transitional Appeal for Relief and Immediate Rehabilitation,...

At least 50 people have been killed, and a further 200 injured in a strong earthquake which has struck east Afghanistan. Preliminary reports had put the number of dead at four, with 10 seriously...

Philippines President Joseph Estrada has pledged emergency funding for four southern provinces struck by devastating floods which have killed at least 24 people. Heavy rains caused by the La Niña...

Ref: OCHAGVA - 99/0038 Colombia - Earthquake OCHA - Geneva Situation Report No. 7 12 February 1999 Situation 1. As of 10 February 1998, consolidated figures indicate that 1,052 persons lost their...

UNHCR is approaching authorities today in the port city of Matadi, southwest of Kinshasa on the border with Angola, in order to plan for a site for recently arrived Angolan refugees. An estimated...

NEW YORK, UN (PANA, 02/12/99) - Olara Otunnu, the UN Secretary General's Special Representative for Children in Armed Conflict is to begin a tour of the war-afflicted countries of Rwanda, Burundi and...

From FM Alert, Vol III, No. 6 - February 12, 1999 The United Nations Security Council has extended the mandate of the UN Observation Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) to July 31, amidst controversy over a...

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Nairobi, Kenya: February 12, 1999 -- The international medical relief organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been evacuated from five of the ten locations in which it...

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 SIERRA...

British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said in Rambouillet on 11 February that the talks aimed at reaching a political settlement for Kosova will continue for another week. Cook charged that the Serbs...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopia has said the first phase of the counter-offensives by its forces against Eritrea in their border conflict since 6 Feburary has been ''successfully completed...

NATO has agreed in principle to send an extra 6-thousand troops to Macedonia, in preparation for the rapid deployment of a possible peacekeeping force in neighbouring Kosovo. The move is designed to...

Peshawar, Pakistan (dpa) - At least 50 people were killed and more than 200 injured in an earthquake which rocked Wardak province of Afghanistan Thursday night, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) agency...

S/1999/161 12 February 1999 I. INTRODUCTION 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to Security Council resolution 1186 (1998) of 21 July 1998, by which the Council decided to authorize an...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tracy Geoghegan: (202) 637-6206 E-mail: tlg@partners.poa.com Partners of the Americas' (Partners) volunteers in Colombia, South Carolina, Florida and Massachusetts are...

S/PRST/1999/6 At the 3978th meeting of the Security Council, held on 12 February 1999 in connection with the Council's consideration of the item entitled "Protection of civilians in armed conflict",...

As the Rambouillet talks continue, in Kosovo the general atmosphere on the ground is marked by a mixture of hope, fear, anxiety and suspense. In some areas, displaced people continue timidly to...