DISPLACED PEOPLE CONTINUE TO ARRIVE IN TOTOTA, LIBERIA

NEW YORK, 9 October (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- On Tuesday, 7 October, an inter-agency mission visited Totota and Kakata in Liberia to examine the relocation of internally displaced persons in irregular shelters and assess new population movements into Totota.

PRESS STATEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT ON BURUNDI

This is the text of a statement on Burundi delivered today by the President of the Security Council, John Negroponte (United States):

Security Council members welcome the signing on 8 October of the Pretoria Protocol on political, defence and security power-sharing between the Transitional Government of Burundi and the CNDD-FDD.

RISE OF SUPERMARKETS ACROSS AFRICA THREATENS SMALL FARMERS

ROME, 8 October (FAO)-- Small farmers in Africa risk being swept out of agriculture by a wave of supermarket expansion unless they can participate in the new market, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned on Wednesday.

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES SIGNING OF AGREEMENT ON POWER-SHARING IN BURUNDI

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

EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR DEMANDS PROTECTION FOR CIVILIANS, AID WORKERS IN SOMALIA

(Reissued as received.)

HUMANITARIAN SITUATION WORSENS IN GREATER DARFUR REGION OF WESTERN SUDAN

(Reissued as received.)

PRESS STATEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT ON COTE D’IVOIRE

Following is the press statement on Côte d’Ivoire delivered by the President of the Security Council, John Negroponte (United States):

UNFPA REPLENISHES LOOTED HOSPITALS IN LIBERIA; WARNS OF CONTINUING HEALTH

EMERGENCY AS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS REMAIN DISPLACED

New York, 3 October (UNFPA) -- Continuing fighting in Liberia is worsening an already severe humanitarian crisis that has pushed maternal and infant mortality to levels not seen for decades, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), warned today.

RENEWED UNREST IN LIBERIA SLOWS HUMANITARIAN AID

AS THOUSANDS FLEE TOWARDS GUINEA

NEW YORK, 2 October 2003 –- Violence resurfaced in Monrovia yesterday after a period of relative calm. 

WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME BRINGS AID TO BURUNDI CIVILIANS

DISPLACED IN CLASHES BETWEEN REBEL GROUPS