Moyiga Nduru

ZAIRE: Belligerents Urged To Spare Endangered Animals

An international environmental group has appealed to Zaire's belligerents to protect endangered animals in the east of the country.

ZAIRE: Belligerents Urged To Spare Endangered Animals

By Moyiga Nduru

An international environmental group has appealed to Zaire's belligerents to protect endangered animals in the east of the country.

KENYA-FOOD: Famine Alert Declared

By Moyiga Nduru

The government of President Daniel Arap Moi has declared a state of national disaster following warnings that hundreds of thousands of people were threatened by famine in Kenya.

ENVIRONMENT: UNEP Members Urged To Pay Up Their Contributions

By Moyiga Nduru

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has urged its member states to pay up their contributions so as to allow the cash-strapped institution to carry on with its job of tackling environmental problems worldwide.

EAST AFRICA: Kenya Appoints Special Envoy To Great Lakes Region

By Moyiga Nduru

The appointment by Kenya of a special envoy to the Great Lakes Region of Africa brings to six the number of international emissaries assigned to tackle the spreading conflict in the troubled area.

SOMALI-POPULATION: Refugees Prepare To Return Home

By Moyiga Nduru

Somali refugees will next week begin returning to their homes after six years in exile in Ethiopia, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office here.

EAST AFRICA-FOOD: More and More People Face Hunger

By Moyiga Nduru

Drastic steps are needed to ensure that the widespread starvation that killed thousands of people in the Horn of Africa in the 1980s and early 1990s does not recur, according to regional and international observers.

KENYA-FOOD: Relief Urgently Needed For People In Northeast

By Moyiga Nduru

Pressure is mounting on the government of President Daniel Arap Moi to declare Kenya's northeast province, which has been hit by famine, a disaster area.

BURUNDI-ECONOMY: Massacres Weaken Bid to Have Sanctions Lifted

By Moyiga Nduru

Burundi's government is again urging its neighbours to lift economic sanctions aimed at forcing de facto president Pierre Buyoya to step down, but its arguments weigh little against continued massacres by its army.

SUDAN-POLITICS: Khartoum Regime Faces Major Challenge

By Moyiga Nduru

A new alliance between southern rebels and northern opposition groups has brought Sudan's civil war closer to Khartoum, posing one of the biggest threats ever to the Islamic fundamentalist regime of Lt-Gen Omar Hassan al Bashir.

ETHIOPIA-MEDIA: Muzzling the Independent Press

By Moyiga Nduru

Ethiopian journalist Kassahun Seboqa Negewo has travelled over 1,000 kilometres, crossing rivers, mountains and forests, to flee the regime of President Meles Zenawi which, he says, forced him to give up his job.

AFRICA-POLITICS: Kenya Steps Up Pressure To Bring Peace To Zaire

By Moyiga Nduru

Kenya has stepped up its actions to resolve the conflict in Zaire which has claimed thousands of lives and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.

SUDAN-POLITICS: Rebel Alliance Launches Heavy Attacks In The East

By Moyiga Nduru

Heavy fighting is underway along Sudan's border with Eritrea between government troops and rebel forces bent on toppling the government of Lt-Gen Omar Hassan al Bashir.

/IPS DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN/ ZAIRE: Rebels Seek Total Control Over Mining Fields

By Moyiga Nduru

Foreign companies that have abandoned mining fields in the wake of fighting in the eastern part of the country have been given until early January by the rebels to reclaim their fields or risk losing their investment.

UGANDA-POLITICS: Army Fails To Crush Northern Rebellion

By Moyiga Nduru

The government of president Yoweri Museveni has admitted difficulties in its campaign against the insurgency in the north of the country, but it has ruled out talks with the rebels.

ZAIRE-ECONOMY: Rebels Seek Total Control Over Mining Fields

By Moyiga Nduru

Foreign companies that have abandoned mining fields in the wake of fighting in the eastern part of the country have been given until early January by the rebels to reclaim their fields or risk losing their investment.

SUDAN-CHILDREN: Marching The Young Off To War

By Moyiga Nduru

One fateful day, a Sudanese refugee reportedly asked rebel leader Colonel John Garang why his children were not among those being trained to fight in his guerilla movement in southern Sudan.

ZAIRE-POLITICS: Kinshasa Boycotts Nairobi Summit

By Moyiga Nduru

Zaire's boycott of a key heads of state summit here this week highlighted the complexity of the crisis in the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa.

SUDAN-POLITICS: Push for Southern Autonomy Splits Rebels

By Moyiga Nduru

Farouk Saleh Mohamed Abdalla quit the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) earlier this month after six years in the bush aiding its rebellion against the Islamic regime in Khartoum.

ZAIRE-POLITICS: Mandela Throws His Weight Behind Regional Summit

By Moyiga Nduru

South African President Nelson Mandela's attendance at the regional summit on the crisis in Zaire and the Great Lakes Region, which opens in the Kenyan capital Monday, is big news here.