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Guyana - Floods Situation Report No. 5, 25 July 1996
Ref: DHAGVA - 96/0243 SITUATION 1. Although rains still on-going in Guyana, waters are slowly receding in the areas affected by floods. Government of Guyana reports that an estimated 35,000 persons...
Statement by Burundian Defense Minister Firmin Sinzoyiheba, July 25, 1996
" In view of the socio-political disorder in which the country has been plunged, the inability of the country's institutions to deal
Burundi Army Announces Coup, Reinstates Buyoya
BUJUMBURA, Burundi (Reuter) - Burundi's Tutsi-dominated army announced a military take-over Thursday and named the former ruler, Maj. Pierre Buyoya, as the head of its junta, state radio said. The...
China Fears Disease From Floods, Appeals for Aid
BEIJING (Reuter) - Chinese officials sent out more volunteers Thursday to reinforce exhausted troops lining the Yangtze river as it threatened to burst its banks and warned of epidemics after floods...
FAO Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture, Special Alert No. 269
OVERVIEW Further to GIEWS Special Alert No. 265 of February 1996, an on-the-spot assessment of the 1996 Yala crop and the overall food supply situation has just been completed by FAO/GIEWS. The...
Deaths in China's Widespread Floods Doubles
By ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press Writer BEIJING (AP) - The death toll from floods that submerged parts of central and southern China has doubled to at least 1,522, the government said today...
Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea
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Warning That Burundi Is Near Collapse, U.N. Plans Intervention
By BARBARA CROSSETTE UNITED NATIONS -- Fearing that Burundi is on the verge of a political collapse, the United Nations is assembling an intervention force that could be used to prevent the country's...
Burundi Army Takes Over, Defies World
BUJUMBURA (Reuter) - Burundi's Tutsi-dominated army seized power Thursday, ending a power vacuum and defying world leaders who had threatened heavy penalties if there was a coup. The army installed a...
Burundi Army Bans Parties, Shuts Airport, Borders
BUJUMBURA, Burundi (Reuter) - Burundi's Tutsi-dominated army seized power Thursday, outlawed political parties and closed the airport and land borders, state radio said. It said the new leaders,...
OAU: Coup in Burundi Would be Met With Force
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuter) - The Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity warned Thursday that any coup in Burundi where the president has taken refuge in the U.S. ambassador's...
Oxfam says do not let the 'shadow of Rwanda fall on Burundi'
Oxfam warned today that Burundi is teetering dangerously on the brink of a 'double genocide' with both extremes of the political and ethnic divide committing widespread human rights abuses. The...
Bangladesh - Floods Situation Report No. 2, 25 July 1996
Ref: DHAGVA - 96/0244 1. The overall flood situation in the country has slightly improved in the upper catchment areas whereas it has significantly aggravated in the downstream. Brahmaputra basin: as...
US Department of State Daily Press Briefing
[ Note: This item is extracted from the full briefing.] U.S. Department of State 96/07/25 Daily Press Briefing Office of the Spokesman Briefer: Nicholas Burns BURUNDI Curfew Imposed/Major Pierre...
Sudanese Refugees Try To Ease Tension At Kakuma Camp
by Makur Kot Dhuor, APS Correspondent Nairobi - Early last month, a fierce fight broke out between two rival Sudanese groups at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) camp near the...
China flood death toll at 1,100, could go higher
BEIJING, July 24 (Reuter) - The death toll from devastating floods that have ravaged central and southern China this year has exceeded 1,100 and could climb higher as rivers reach a new flood peak,...
OMRI Daily Digest I, No. 142, 24 Jul 96
KHASBULATOV TO MEDIATE IN CHECHNYA? In an official statement on 23 July, acting Chechen President Zelimkhan Yandarbiev reaffirmed his readiness to continue peace talks with the Russian leadership...
Forest Cover in Brazil
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Liberia Humanitarian Situation Report No.24
18-24 July 1996 SUMMARY The ECOWAS Summit will be held in Abuja on 26-27 July. The humanitarian community has requested that the following be addressed at the Summit in order to bring a durable...