SECRETARY-GENERAL NOTES DEADLINE EXPIRATION IN DARFUR PEACE TALKS,

 

URGES PARTIES TO REDOUBLE EFFORTS, SEIZE HISTORIC OPPORTUNITY

 

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SPECIAL HUMANITARIAN ENVOY SAYS ETHIOPIA HAS LESSONS

TO SHARE WITH ITS NEIGHBOURS

MORE ASSISTANCE FOR INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS NEEDED IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE

ABIDJAN/ NEW YORK, 27 April (OCHA) -- The results of a recent study on internal displacement show that an estimated 700,000 persons have been displaced in Côte d’Ivoire since the beginning of the current crisis in 2002.

SPECIAL HUMANITARIAN ENVOY VISITS DROUGHT AFFECTED DJIBOUTI

 

DJIBOUTI/NEW YORK, 27 April (OCHA) -- Kjell Magne Bondevik, United Nations Special Humanitarian Envoy for the Horn of Africa, saw the human cost of Djibouti’s drought today, during a visit to a hospital treating malnourished children.

UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL HUMANITARIAN ENVOY MEETS ERITREAN PRESIDENT AFWERKI

 

Biographical Note

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS LEGWAILA JOSEPH LEGWAILA

OF BOTSWANA AS SPECIAL ADVISER ON AFRICA

The Secretary-General announced today the appointment of Legwaila Joseph Legwaila of Botswana as Special Adviser on Africa effective 1 May 2006.

SPECIAL HUMANITARIAN ENVOY BEGINS FIVE-NATION MISSION

TO DROUGHT-AFFECTED COUNTRIES IN HORN OF AFRICA

SPECIAL HUMANITARIAN ENVOY FOR HORN OF AFRICA ON MISSION TO ERITREA ,

DJIBOUTI , ETHIOPIA , SOMALIA , KENYA

NEW YORK, 24 April (OCHA) -- The United Nations Special Humanitarian Envoy for the Horn of Africa, Kjell Magne Bondevik, is to undertake a five-nation mission to the Horn of Africa.

Biographical Note

Secretary-General appoints Gérard Stoudmann of Switzerland

 

High Representative for elections in Côte d’Ivoire

 

ATTACK ON UNICEF VEHICLE IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC KILLS TWO DOCTORS