Africa

HUMANITARIAN EFFORTS MAKING HEADWAY IN LIBERIA

NEW YORK, 28 November (OCHA) -– Humanitarian efforts to reach people in need throughout Liberia continued this week, passing two milestones.  For the first time in 14 years, electricity was supplied to central Monrovia, and when a humanitarian flight landed in Voinjama, a distant border town, it marked the first time the airfield had been used in more than a decade.

WORST YET TO COME FOR AFRICA’S AIDS ORPHANS, REPORT WARNS AS UNICEF

URGES HELP FOR FAMILIES SUPPORTING GROWING NUMBERS

With 11 Million Children Already Orphaned,

Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland Face Biggest Increases, Says Agency

UN COUNTRY TEAM TACKLES ETHIOPIA MALARIA OUTBREAK AS DISEASE THREATENS

TO EXACERBATE HIGH MALNUTRITION RATES

INSECURITY, POOR ROADS THWART HUMANITARIAN ACCESS AS CIVILIANS

SUFFER SHORTAGES IN EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

SECRETARY-GENERAL WARNS COTE D’IVOIRE ‘COULD SLIP BACK INTO CONFLICT’

IN STATEMENT TO SECURITY COUNCIL

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at the meeting of the Security Councilwith the Ministers of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Côte d’Ivoire at Headquarters, 24 November:

STATEMENT ON AFRICAN INDUSTRIALIZATION DAY STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF MARKET

ACCESS FOR REGION’S INTEGRATION INTO GLOBAL ECONOMY

(Reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL MOURNS DEATH OF DAVID DACKO,

FIRST PRESIDENT OF CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

Following is a statement issued today by the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on the death of the former President of the Central African Republic, David Dacko:

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FOOD-BASED APPROACHES FOR HEALTHIER NUTRITION

IN WEST AFRICA OPENS IN OUAGADOUGOU, 23 NOVEMBER

ROME/OUAGADOUGOU, 21 November (FAO) -- "Food-based approaches for a healthy nutrition in West Africa; the role of food technologists and nutritionists" is the theme of an international workshop to be held from 23 to 28 November in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

LANDMINES, POOR ROADS, HEAVY RAINS HAMPER AID EFFORTS

FOR VICTIMS OF DECADES-LONG ANGOLAN CIVIL WAR

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT MARKS AFRICA INDUSTRIALIZATION DAY

WITH CALL FOR REGION’S INTEGRATION INTO GLOBAL ECONOMY

Following is the text of the message by Julian Robert Hunte (Saint Lucia), President of the General Assembly, on the occasion of Africa Industrialization Day, 20 November: