Africa

HEAD OF UN HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS OFFICE VISITS NORTHERN UGANDA,

SAYS ‘DEEPLY SHOCKED’ BY ‘WAR AGAINST CHILDREN’

DISPLACEMENT RISES, ACCESS DECLINES IN SUDAN, SAYS UN HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS OFFICE

FOOD SECURITY REMAINS CRITICAL IN PARTS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

SAYS UN HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS OFFICE

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES PLANNED MEETING ON COTE D’IVOIRE

Following is a statement issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECURITY COUNCIL PRESS STATEMENT ON BURUNDI

Following is the press statement on Burundi delivered today by Security Council President Ismael Abraão Gaspar Martins (Angola):

The members of the Security Council,

THOUSANDS DISPLACED AS NEW FIGHTING ERUPTS BETWEEN CONGOLESE

MILITIA AND RWANDAN REBEL GROUP

NEW YORK, 4 November (OCHA) -- Fighting that erupted on Friday between the Mayi-Mayi militia and a Rwandan rebel group in South Kivu Province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, has resulted in the displacement of thousands of civilians.

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES 2 NOVEMBER BURUNDI AGREEMENT

AIMED AT SETTLING POLITICAL, POWER-SHARING ISSUES

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S MESSAGE TO UN GROUP ON SECURITY IN CENTRAL AFRICA;

ENCOURAGING PROGRESS NOTED, BUT PEACE PROCESSES ‘STILL FRAGILE’

VAST HUMANITARIAN NEEDS FOUND IN SOUTH KIVU PROVINCE,

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

NEW YORK, 31 October (OCHA) -- A recent humanitarian needs assessment mission conducted jointly by several United Nations agencies has found widespread humanitarian needs in the region from Uvira to Fizi in the South Kivu Province of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

AFRICAN CAPITAL MARKETS WORKSHOP ADOPTS ROBUST ACTION PLAN

ADDIS ABABA, 30 October (ECA) -- The African Capital Markets Development Workshop, organized by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in partnership with the Rand Merchant Bank, closed yesterday in Johannesburg, South Africa, after three days of intensive discussions.