Military


June 2000 Military News

  • RWANDA / UGANDA Voice of America 30 June 2000 -- The presidents of Uganda and Rwanda are scheduled to meet Saturday to discuss repeated fighting between their armies in the Democratic Republic of Congo-Kinshasa.
  • U-N-H-C-R / TIMOR Voice of America 30 June 2000 -- The United Nations Refugee Agency, U-N-H-C-R, says it hopes to wrap up the repatriation of an estimated 100-thousand East Timorese refugees from camps in West Timor by the end of this year.
  • REBUILDING EAST TIMOR Voice of America 30 June 2000 -- International donors have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to help rebuild East Timor's economy. But Timorese and aid workers agree the benefits of those pledges have been too slow in materializing.
  • SOLOMONS POL Voice of America 30 June 2000 -- The Solomon Islands has elected a new Prime Minister (Friday), in the hopes he will bring stability to the strife-torn South Pacific nation.
  • SRI LANKA PEACE PLAN Voice of America 30 June 2000 -- Tamil Tiger Rebels fighting for a separate homeland in Sri Lanka have rejected a government proposal aimed at ending the 17-year conflict.
  • SRI LANKA CENSORSHIP Voice of America 30 June 2000 -- Sri Lanka's Supreme Court ruled Friday the government's censorship of news illegal, and ordered the reopening of a newspaper shut down under emergency regulations.
  • TURKEY / HADEP Voice of America 30 June 2000 -- Turkish authorities recently have stepped up pressure on Turkey's largest legal pro-Kurdish party, Hadep.
  • ERITREA / HUMANITARIAN CRISIS Voice of America 30 June 2000 -- Scattered throughout the mountains of Eritrea's central highlands are thousands of displaced people. They camp under rocky overhangs, huddle in caves, or live out in the open.
  • U-N-H-C-R / CHECHNYA Voice of America 30 June 2000 -- The United Nations refugee agency, U-N-H-C-R, says Russian authorities are pressuring Chechen refugees in Ingushetia to return home, despite continuing fighting and instability in the breakaway republic.
  • RUSSIA / CHECHNYA Voice of America 30 June 2000 -- Russia's commander in Chechnya says Russian forces have won a five-day battle with rebels at the base of the Caucasus mountains in southern Chechnya.
  • AFGHAN REFUGEES / PAKISTAN Voice of America 30 June 2000 -- About one-thousand Afghan refugees have left Pakistan to return home after more than 20 years in exile.
  • Press Briefing By Special Representative of Secretary-General In East Timor, UN Press Briefing, 29 June 2000 -- The time had come for the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) to share responsibility and political power with the Timorese people, the Secretary-General's Special Representative and Head of UNTAET told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.
  • Security Council Strongly Condemns Attacks By Armed Groups On Innocent Civilians And Humanitarian Personnel In Somalia, UN Press Release, 29 June 2000 -- The Security Council this afternoon strongly condemned attacks by armed groups on innocent civilians and all humanitarian personnel in Somalia. It strongly urged the Somali factions to respect international humanitarian and human rights law, to ensure the safety and freedom of movement of all humanitarian personnel and to faciliate the delivery of humanitarian relief to all those in need.
  • Under-Secretary-General Kieran Prendergast Briefs Security Council, Urges It Not To Give Up On Somalia, UN Press Release, 29 June 2000 -- Under-Secretary-General Kieran Prendergast told the Security Council today that it must "not fall prey to cynicism and despair and give up on Somalia", as he briefed the Council on the political, security and humanitarian situation there. On the contrary, he added, it should give renewed support to the Somali National Peace Conference currently under way in Djibouti.
  • CHINA-IRAN- UIGHERS Voice of America 29 June 2000 -- Iranian President Mohammad Khatami surprised many with his visit to the predominantly Muslim Chinese province of Xinjiang, which has been racked with violent separatist activity of late.
  • TURKEY / ISLAMIST SCHOOLS Voice of America 29 June 2000 -- As Turkey's influential military keeps up its battle against what it considers Islamic extremism, one Muslim group - known as the Fetullahcilar - is coming under increasing pressure.
  • U-N-TIMOR REFUGEES Voice of America 29 June 2000 -- The top United Nations official in East Timor has (Thursday) issued another appeal to the government of Indonesia to crack down on militia groups operating in West Timor.
  • US-SUDAN Voice of America 29 June 2000 -- Some U-S lawmakers and religious freedom advocates are calling again for renewed attention to what they say are continued atrocities committed by Sudan's Muslim-led government against Christians and animists.
  • U-N-SOMALIA Voice of America 29 June 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council has (Thursday) expressed its strong support for efforts by the government of Djibouti to restore peace and stability in neighboring Somalia.
  • SIERRA LEONE / HOSTAGES Voice of America 29 June 2000 -- Rebel forces in Sierra Leone have freed 21 United Nations peacekeepers who have been held hostage since early June.
  • TURKEY / KURDS Voice of America 29 June 2000 -- Police in Turkey have arrested nearly 100 people for staging protests against the death sentence imposed on Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan.
  • ETHIOPIA/ERITREA PEACE TALKS Voice of America 29 June 2000 -- The United States says Ethiopia and Eritrea have accepted an invitation to hold a new round of peace talks in Washington.
  • DISEASE-NATIONAL SECURITY Voice of America 29 June 2000 -- A U-S intelligence report says AIDS, malaria, and other infectious diseases are destabilizing many nations and could trigger humanitarian and military conflicts that will force the United States to respond.
  • COLOMBIA REBELS MEETING Voice of America 29 June 2000 -- In Colombia, delegates from 21-embassies, mostly European, are meeting with leftist rebels to discuss illicit drug eradication and the environment.
  • SIERRA LEONE / FIGHTING Voice of America 28 June 2000 -- United Nations officials in Sierra Leone say more clashes have erupted between rival forces making up a shaky pro-government alliance.
  • WESTERN SAHARA Voice of America 28 June 2000 -- The United Nations is overseeing a second round of talks in London between the Moroccan government and the Polisario independence movement over the future of Western Sahara.
  • RUSSIA / CHECHNYA Voice of America 28 June 2000 -- Russian military officials say a heavy battle has been raging for days in southeastern Chechnya between Russian troops and as many as 200 rebel fighters.
  • U-N-EAST TIMOR INDEPENDENCE Voice of America 27 June 2000 -- Sergio Vieira de Mello, the head of the U-N Mission in East Timor, told the Security Council that a political transition in East Timor requires a constitutional process that results in elections.
  • MALUKU / MILITARY Voice of America 27 June 2000 -- The Indonesian Armed Forces are rotating troops out of the riot-ravaged province of Maluku, saying they have become involved in the fighting between Muslims and Christians.
  • UNHCR / ERITREA Voice of America 27 June 2000 -- Eritrean refugees are slowly returning to their homes from camps in Sudan, despite a difficult humanitarian situation in Western Eritrea.
  • CLINTON - ARMENIA Voice of America 27 June 2000 -- President Clinton and Armenian President Robert Kocharian met at the White House Tuesday to discuss prospects for ending Armenia's long running territorial dispute with neighboring Azerbaijan.
  • U-N-H-C-R / ANGOLA Voice of America 27 June 2000 -- The United Nations refugee agency, U-N-H-C-R, says its emergency relief operation in northern Angola has come to a virtual standstill because of worsening security.
  • TIMOR - BURNT HOUSE Voice of America 23 June 2000 -- In Dili, East Timor's capital, people are still trying to rebuild their lives and homes after violence broke out following the territory's August independence vote from Indonesia.
  • ERITREA / TESSENEY Voice of America 23 June 2000 -- Tesseney -- an important Eritrean trading town along the border with Sudan -- is almost completely destroyed. What was not looted has been burned.
  • COLOMBIA REACT Voice of America 23 June 2000 -- In Colombia, the army and government were overjoyed to hear that months of waiting are over. The US Senate agreed to a 1.3 billion dollar aid package to Colombia.
  • SIERRA LEONE REBELS Voice of America 22 June 2000 -- Sierra Leonean military officials say pro- government forces have lost control of the strategic town of Lunsar, near the capital, Freetown.
  • SRI LANKA PEACE TALKS Voice of America 22 June 2000 -- Sri Lanka's government says it has agreed with opposition political parties to present a draft-peace plan to Tamil rebels, in an attempt to bring peace to the war ravaged nation.
  • U-N / CONGO STATEMENT Voice of America 22 June 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council has deplored Congo President Laurent Kabila's decision to shut down the office of a national mediator.
  • INDONESIAN VIOLENCE Voice of America 22 June 2000 -- Clashes between Christians and Muslims in Indonesia's eastern Maluku province have claimed five more lives.
  • INDONESIA / VIOLENCE Voice of America 21 June 2000 -- The scope of bloodshed continues to widen in Indonesia's eastern Maluku Province, with at least 114 people killed and 709 others injured in clashes between Christians and Muslims.
  • NIGERIA / SHARIA Voice of America 21 June 2000 -- Nigeria's northern state of Kano [pron: `KAH-no] has formally adopted the strict Islamic law known as Sharia.
  • U-N SIERRA LEONE ECOWAS Voice of America 21 June 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council and representatives of a west African regional group met today (Wednesday) to discuss the situation in Sierra Leone.
  • African States Want Sankoh Tried for Reopening War in Sierra Leone Judy AitaWashington File 21 June 2000 -- The U.N. Security Council and the representatives of West African states are in agreement that Revolutionary United Front (RUF) leader Foday Sankoh should be tried for reopening Sierra Leone's eight-year-old civil war, diplomats said June 21.
  • Security Council Extends Bosnia Mission Until 19 June 2001 By Vote of 14-0-1; Russian Federation Abstains, UN Press Release, 21 June 2000 -- The Security Council this morning, reaffirming its commitment to the political settlement of the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and preserving the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all States there within their internationally recognized borders, extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH), which includes the International Police Task Force, until 19 June 2001.
  • President of International Tribunal For Former Yugoslavia Briefs Security Council, Asks For Change In Court's Statute, UN Press Release, 20 June 2000 -- The President of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia asked the Security Council this morning to amend the Tribunal's Statute to facilitate the creation of a pool of judges who would be called upon when a case was trial- ready and who would try only that one case.
  • Democratic Republic of Congo Requests World Court To Indicate Urgent Provisional Measures In Case Concerning Uganda, UN Press Release, 20 June 2000 --
  • U.S. Backs Sierra Leone War Crimes Tribunal By Judy Aita Washington File 20 June 2000 -- The United States wants some kind of Sierra Leone war crimes tribunal "swiftly and efficiently" set up to deal with Foday Sankoh and other leaders of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), U.S. Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke said June 20.
  • U-S-SIERRA LEONE WAR CRIMES Voice of America 20 June 2000 -- The United States is calling for an international court to take jurisdiction over war crimes in the west African nation of Sierra Leone.
  • SIERRA LEONE / HUMANITARIAN AID Voice of America 20 June 2000 -- The U-N World Food Program says Sierra Leone faces a humanitarian crisis in areas affected by fighting between government-allied forces and Sierra Leonean rebels.
  • U-N-H-C-R / WEST TIMOR Voice of America 20 June 2000 -- The U-N refugee agency says it has suspended activities in three West Timor camps following what it calls three extremely worrisome security incidents.
  • LEBANON / U-N Voice of America 20 June 2000 -- United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has ended his 24-hour visit to Lebanon with a promise to investigate and end alleged Israeli violations of a U-N-drawn withdrawal line in southern Lebanon.
  • NGO Director Targets Sudan Genocide By Corrie A. White Washington File 19 June 2000 -- -- U.S. aid to Sudan surpasses that of "all other donor nations," but such assistance must not be used as a "political weapon" against the African nation, says Nina Shea, director of the Center for Religious Freedom (a branch of the non-governmental organization Freedom House).
  • LEBANON / UNITED NATIONS Voice of America 19 June 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council has (Sunday) formally endorsed U-N Secretary-General Kofi Annan's finding that Israel has withdrawn its forces from southern Lebanon.
  • ERITREA / REPATRIATIONS Voice of America 19 June 2000 -- Eritrea has begun the process of repatriating Ethiopians displaced by war.
  • U-N / CONGO KINSHASA Voice of America 19 June 2000 -- A senior U-N official confirms that all Rwandan and Ugandan soldiers have left the Congolese city of Kisangani.
  • SIERRA LEONE / SECURITY Voice of America 18 June 2000 -- Gunfire that killed at least one civilian and wounded four others has sparked security concerns in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, following the departure of British troops.
  • UN/LEBANON Voice of America 18 June 2000 -- United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan says it is up to the United Nations and not Israel or Lebanon to determine whether either side has violated the recently drawn U-N border line.
  • ETHIOPIA/ERITREA Voice of America 18 June 2000 -- The Organization of African Unity cease-fire commits both sides to pull back to their pre-war borders. Eritrea did that last month under military pressure from Ethiopia, but Ethiopian troops remain far inside Eritrea.
  • ERITREA/ETHIOPIA PEACE PLAN Voice of America 18 June 2000 -- Ethiopia and Eritrea have signed a peace deal to end a bitter two-year border dispute in the Horn of Africa. But many are asking whether the agreement will really bring peace.
  • Transcript: Albright Says RUF Leader Foday Sankoh Must Go 18 June 2000 -- Revolutionary United Front leader Foday Sankoh has "lost his chance ... to be a part of the system" in Sierra Leone and "he has to go," says Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
  • ETHIOPIA/ERITREA Voice of America 18 June 2000 -- Ethiopia and Eritrea have signed a cease-fire in Algeria, ending their two-year border war.
  • ERITREA-UNICEF Voice of America 17 June 2000 -- Fighting between Ethiopia and Eritrea has forced more than one-million people to flee their homes.
  • SECURITY COUNCIL/ CONGO RESOLUTION Voice of America 16 June 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council has unanimously passed a resolution demanding Rwanda and Uganda withdraw their troops immediately and completely from Kisangani.
  • SECURITY COUNCIL DEMANDS THAT UGANDAN AND RWANDAN FORCES WITHDRAW IMMEDIATELY FROM KISANGANI, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Press Release SC/6877 - 16 June 2000 -- The Security Council this evening demanded that Ugandan and Rwandan forces, as well as those of the Congolese opposition and other armed groups, withdraw immediately and completely from the city of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • SECURITY COUNCIL MEETS ON SITUATION IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO Press Release SC/6876 - 15 June 2000 -- Continuing hostilities in the Equateur and Kasai provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, uninterrupted violence in Kivu and heavy fighting between foreign armies in the city of Kisangani were among the key elements of the Congolese crisis, the President of the Security Council said this afternoon.
  • Greed For Diamonds and Other "Lootable' Commodities Fuels Civil Wars June 15, 2000 - New World Bank research suggests that civil wars are more often fuelled by rebel groups competing with national governments for control of diamonds, coffee, and other valuable primary commodities, rather than by political, ethnic, or religious differences.
  • Economic Causes of Civil Conflict and Their Implications for Policy June 15, 2000
  • Press Briefing on the report "Economic Causes of Civil Conflict and Their Implications for Policy" June 15, 2000 We've had during the 1990s 39 conflicts, major ones, meaning with at least 1,000 deaths per conflict in any one year. More than 4 million people have been killed in violent conflicts since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Of the 27 conflicts that were taking place in '99, 25 of them were internal, which shows the changing nature of conflict.
  • CIVIL WAR / DIAMONDS Voice of America 15 June 2000 -- The World Bank has issued a new report suggesting civil wars are more often fueled by economics than by political, ethnic or religious differences.
  • BRITAIN / SIERRA LEONE Voice of America 15 June 2000 -- British troops are leaving Sierra Leone one month after they were dispatched to bolster U-N peacekeeping operations and help evacuate British nationals. About 200 soldiers will remain to help train new recruits for Sierra Leone's army.
  • ISRAEL / LEBANON Voice of America 15 June 2000 -- Israeli soldiers have fired warning shots near a United Nations team trying to map the tense border with southern Lebanon.
  • ETHIOPIA / ERITREA Voice of America 15 June 2000 -- A ceasefire in the border war between Ethiopia and Eritrea appears to be holding.
  • CONGO - UN PEACKEEPERS Voice of America 15 June 2000 -- Secretary General's special representative for Congo-Kinshasa, Kamel Morjane (mor jahn), said he has asked the Security Council to consider additional means, including more peacekeepers, to fulfill the U-N mission in the war-torn country.
  • Text: Ambassador Holbrooke's UNSC Remarks on the DRC 15 June 2000 -- Let the world see that the United Nations is not turning away from Africa, U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke said at the beginning of two days of Security Council meetings on peace efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with senior officials from the region.
  • SECURITY COUNCIL/ CONGO Voice of America 15 June 2000 -- The United Nations is focusing its attention on Congo-Kinshasa where the first of two days of talks with the signatories to the 1999 Lusaka peace agreement - the so-called "political committee" - is underway.
  • ZIMBABWE SITUATION Voice of America 14 June 2000 -- International monitors are taking up positions throughout Zimbabwe in preparation for parliamentary elections next week.
  • CAMBODIA / THAILAND BORDER Voice of America 14 June 2000 -- Officials from Cambodia and Thailand have signed an agreement (Wednesday) to mark their disputed common border for the first time in decades.
  • SOLOMONS COUP Voice of America 14 June 2000 -- The prime minister of Solomon Islands, Bartholomew Ulufa'alu - kidnapped and then released by rebels last week - has resigned.
  • ISRAEL / LEBANON BORDER Voice of America 14 June 2000 -- An Arab village is threatened with being torn- apart in a tug-of-war over disputed international borders.
  • SRI LANKA BOMB Voice of America 14 June 2000 -- In Sri Lanka, a bomb attack on an Air Force vehicle in Wattala about nine kilometres north of Colombo, today (Wednesday), has left five people dead and seven others injured.
  • ETHIOPIA / ERITREA Voice of America 14 June 2000 -- There is more fighting in the Horn of Africa, with Ethiopia's army saying it has pushed farther into Eritrea.
  • Mugabe Following in Footsteps of Africa's Dictators, Critic Says By Jim Fisher-Thompson Washington File 14 June 2000 -- President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is "following in the footsteps" of African dictators who since the end of the colonial era have made a shambles of their nations' political and economic futures by placing their own interests above those of the countries' citizens, says Professor George Ayittey.
  • Mugabe May Be Destined to Become "Africa's Ceausescu" By Charles W. Corey Washington File 14 June 2000 -- "Something has cracked, something has gone wrong, something has gone badly off the tracks" in Zimbabwe, says Chester Crocker, a former State Department expert who warned on June 13 that the sub-Saharan African nation may become the continent's "Romania" and that its President Robert Mugabe may become "Africa's Ceausescu" -- a dictator deposed by his own people.
  • African Critic Says Media Coverage of Zimbabwe Crisis Is Slanted By Corrie A. White Washington File 13 June 2000-- Professor George Ayittey, a longtime critic of African strongman rule and government mismanagement, says the international media should work harder to reveal the true cause of economic and political crisis in Zimbabwe, which he believes can be traced to President Robert Mugabe's thirst to retain political power.
  • Text: "Dramatic" Situation Now Exists in Zimbabwe 14 June 2000 -- The situation in Zimbabwe is "dramatic" as the country prepares for its upcoming legislative elections against a "backdrop of government-sanctioned and sponsored violence," former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker told Congress on June 13.
  • Annan Wants Security Council to Force Troops from Kisangani By Judy Aita Washington File 13 June 2000 -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan has asked the U.N. Security Council to consider enforcement measures to compel Rwanda and Uganda to withdraw their forces from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
  • Text: Pardew on Bosnia's Future under the Dayton Agreement 13 June 2000 -- Nationalists on all sides, clinging to their narrow slice of power, never bought on to the promise and potential of the Dayton Agreement, while their political leaders have not "fully accepted the concept of Bosnia as a state," Ambassador James W. Pardew told the Helsinki Commission June 13.
  • UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE Voice of America 13 June 2000 -- Military experts say newly emerging weapons and tactics will make future wars dramatically different.
  • MEXICO / CHIAPAS Voice of America 13 June 2000 -- Unidentified gunmen Monday ambushed a police truck in Mexico's southern state, Chiapas, killing seven people and injuring two.
  • ETHIOPIA / ERITREA Voice of America 13 June 2000 -- Ethiopia's army says it has captured new ground on the road to Eritrea's Red Sea port, Assab.
  • U-N/ BOSNIA Voice of America 13 June 2000 -- At the United Nations today (Tuesday), the top U-N official for Bosnia Herzegovina, Jacques Klein, said the international community has an historic opportunity to end the instability that has characterized the region.
  • SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL Press Release SC/6874 - 13 June 2000 -- The strategy of dealing with the area through exclusion from Europe combined with piecemeal military intervention had failed and only an immediate and credible commitment for entry into Europe would end the cycle of regional instability and external intervention.
  • PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE AND COORDINATOR OF UNITED NATIONS OPERATIONS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 13 June 2000 -- Criticism that the United Nations was incapable of peacekeeping in failed States was uninformed and false, Jacques Klein, the Secretary-General's Special Representative and Coordinator of United Nations Operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina told correspondents.
  • 'Voices from War Zones: Women Speak Out' 12 June 2000 -- Women were not just victims of armed conflict, but were also contributors to and agents of change and peace.
  • PRESS CONFERENCE BY ERITREA 12 June 2000 -- An official statement explaining Eritrea's acceptance of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) proposal for an immediate cessation of hostilities between Ethiopia and Eritrea has been sent to the organization.
  • PHILIPPINES / HOSTAGES Voice of America 12 June 2000 -- As the hostage drama in the southern Philippines entered a tortuous 51st day, negotiations to free the 21 mainly foreigners are deadlocked.
  • SRI LANKA / INDIA TALKS Voice of America 12 June 2000 -- The Indian government is pledging its support for a lasting settlement of Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict.
  • INDIA / SRI LANKA Voice of America 12 June 2000 -- India's Foreign Minister says his country will not mediate in Sri Lanka's civil war, but is offering its South Asian neighbor 100-million dollars' worth of humanitarian assistance.
  • ETHIOPIA / ERITREA Voice of America 12 June 2000 -- Ethiopia says it has recaptured ground inside Eritrea. Fighting in their border war continues while the Organization of African Unity tries to make peace.
  • RUSSIA / CHECHNYA Voice of America 12 June 2000 -- A French photographer kidnapped last year while covering the war in Chechnya has been freed.
  • SOLOMON ISLANDS ATTACK Voice of America 11 June 2000 -- There's been a new outbreak of violence in the Solomon Islands.
  • ETHIOPIA/ERITREA Voice of America 11 June 2000 -- Regional mediators say Ethiopia has accepted, in principle, a cease fire plan to end its border war with Eritrea.
  • CONGO CEASEFIRE Voice of America 11 June 2000 -- Ugandan troops have pulled back to the north side of the Tshopo River bridge marking a drastic military turnaround on the urban frontline dividing the two armies.
  • CONGO / FIGHTING LULL Voice of America 11 June 2000 -- Residents of the northeastern Congolese city of Kisangani enjoyed their first day of peace Sunday after a week of clashes between Rwandan and Ugandan troops.
  • SIERRA LEONE Voice of America 10 June 2000 -- In Sierra Leone, thousands of civilians are fleeing their homes ahead of an expected government assault on the rebel-held city of Makeni.
  • SRI LANKA FIGHTING-CEASEFIRE Voice of America 10 June 2000 -- Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels say they have asked international humanitarian agencies to help arrange a temporary cease-fire to allow civilians to leave the combat zone in northern Sri Lanka.
  • INDIA / SRI LANKA Voice of America 10 June 2000 -- Indian officials say they want to encourage peace in Sri Lanka, but it is up to Sri Lankans themselves to solve their political differences.
  • CONGO-KINSHASA FIGHTING Voice of America 10 June 2000 -- Rwandan and Ugandan forces in the Congolese city of Kisangani,Congo Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo) traded heavy artillery and small arms fire for the 6th day on Saturday.
  • AFGHANISTAN/U-N Voice of America 10 June 2000 -- Afghanistan's dominant Taleban faction is urging other members of the United Nations Security Council not to join the United States or Russia in trying to impose further sanctions on the war-torn country.
  • ETHIOPIA - ERITREA Voice of America 10 June 2000 -- Eritrea says it has accepted an Organization of African Unity ceasefire to end its border war with Ethiopia. This is the ceasefire Eritrea has been waiting for.
  • SOLOMONS / POL Voice of America 09 June 2000 -- Rival ethnic militias in the Solomon Islands have called a truce in anticipation of the arrival of a high-level international delegation intent on mediating the conflict.
  • PARADISE LOST Voice of America 09 June 2000 -- The attempted coup in the Solomon Islands June 5th by the Malaitan Eagle rebels was the second attack on an elected government in the South Pacific in recent weeks.
  • SRI LANKA SECURITY Voice of America 09 June 2000 -- In Sri Lanka, security has been stepped up in the capital city of Colombo and surrounding areas, after the death toll from Wednesday's bombing rose to 23.
  • ETHIOPIA - ERITREA Voice of America 09 June 2000 -- There is more fighting in the Horn of Africa, with Eritrea saying Ethiopia has launched a large-scale offensive on their southern front.
  • Transcript: Pickering's VOA Interview on Afghanistan 09 June 2000 -- Under Secretary of State Thomas R. Pickering said the talks focused on efforts of the Organization of the Islamic Conference and the United Nations Six-Plus-Two plan. Pickering also said there was interest in discussing the status of the former king of Afghanistan in any settlement.
  • UNITED NATIONS HUMANITARIAN AGENCIES EXPRESS 'GRAVE CONCERN' OVER KISANGANI FIGHTING Press Release AFR/243 IHA/709 - 9 June 2000 -- The chiefs of five United Nations Humanitarian organizations expressed "grave concern" today about the deteriorating situation for civilians in the town of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • CONGO DEATHS Voice of America 09 June 2000 -- Officials of the International Rescue Committee estimate that one-point-seven-million people have died as a result of fighting in the area.
  • CONGO / KINSHASA Voice of America 09 June 2000 -- Fighting between Ugandan and Rwandan troops is continuing for the fifth day in the northeastern Congolese city of Kisangani.
  • AFGHAN/DROUGHT Voice of America 09 June 2000 -- The United Nations says Afghanistan faces a record wheat shortfall this year because of a prolonged drought in the country.
  • SOLOMON ISLANDS COUP Voice of America 08 June 2000 -- The Commonwealth's envoy in Solomon Islands says there is hope of a ceasefire between warring ethnic groups.
  • TROUBLE IN PARADISE Voice of America 08 June 2000 -- Within the past three weeks, two armed groups of men have taken over the parliaments of a pair of former British commonwealth island groups, Fiji, and the Solomon Islands.
  • Legislative Fundraiser Increases Awareness for Sierra Leone By Corrie A. White Washington File 08 June 2000 -- The conflict in Sierra Leone has personal as well as policy implications and deserves a "higher profile" in America, say a group of legislative staffers who hosted a June 7 fundraiser for the non-governmental organization (NGO) Catholic Relief Services (CRS).
  • SIERRA LEONE / BRITAIN Voice of America 08 June 2000 -- The British army will begin withdrawing the bulk of its soldiers from Sierra Leone next week.
  • SENEGAL / MAURITANIA Voice of America 08 June 2000 -- A water dispute between Senegal and Mauritania continues to worsen, with Senegal now calling on all its citizens to leave Mauritania.
  • LANKAN BOMB - AFTERMATH Voice of America 08 June 2000 -- The Sri Lankan Government has appealed to the general public to remain calm and directed the police and the military to take stern action against anyone instigating acts of violence.
  • U.N. Brokers New Kisangani Cease-Fire in DRC By Judy Aita Washington File 08 June 2000 -- Secretary General Kofi Annan June 8 brokered a cease-fire between Rwandan and Uganda whose troops are fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) city of Kisangani.
  • NEW CEASE-FIRE IN KISANGANI Voice of America 08 June 2000 -- U-N Secretary-General Kofi Annan today (Thursday) arranged what is expected to be a new cease-fire between Rwandan and Ugandan troops in the Congolese city of Kisangani.
  • CONGO / KINSHASA Voice of America 08 June 2000 -- Rwandan and Ugandan troops traded artillery fire across the northeastern Congolese city of Kisangani Thursday for the fourth day.
  • RUSSIA / CHECHNYA Voice of America 08 June 2000 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has imposed direct Kremlin rule in the breakaway Chechnya region.
  • AIDS / SECURITY Voice of America 08 June 2000 -- Foreign policy and health experts are showing growing concern about the economic and security ramifications of the worldwide AIDS epidemic.
  • WARNINGS OF WAR IN CENTRAL ASIA Voice of America 08 June 2000 -- As the Afghanistan war drags on, analysts say there is a danger of it spreading in the region -- especially in view of Russia's recent threat of air strikes against the Taleban.
  • PACIFIC COUPS Voice of America 07 June 2000 -- Malaita Eagle rebels released Solomon Island's Prime Minister, Bartholomew Ulufa'alu, after it was agreed parliament would convene next week to choose a new leader.
  • SOLOMON ISLAND POL Voice of America 07 June 2000 -- As ethnic violence in the Solomon Islands intensifies, rebels have released Prime Minister Bartholomew Ulufa'alu taken captive on Monday.
  • LANKAN BOMB Voice of America 07 June 2000 -- In Sri Lanka, a government minister and at least 19 other people have been killed and over 60 others injured in a suicide bomb attack in the town of Ratmalana.
  • CONGO / KINSHASA Voice of America 07 June 2000 -- At least 50 civilians are reported dead in fighting between armies from Uganda and Rwanda in the Congolese city of Kisangani.
  • MANDELA / BURUNDI Voice of America 07 June 2000 -- The Burundi leader agreed to dismantle the so-called "re-groupment" camps where hundreds of mainly Hutu civilians have been living since late last year.
  • Text: State Department Statement on U.S. Aid to Aceh 07 June 2000 -- Acting State Department Spokesman Philip Reeker announced on June 7 that the United States will be providing aid to Aceh.
  • U-S / SIERRA LEONE Voice of America 06 June 2000 -- The Clinton administration is toughening its stand toward the rebels in Sierra Leone and is offering to arm and train soldiers to push them out of the country's diamond mines.
  • LEBANON / U-N Voice of America 06 June 2000 -- United Nations special envoy Terje Roed-Larsen says Israel's military is no longer holding any positions inside Lebanon.
  • ETHIOPIA / ERITREA Voice of America 06 June 2000 -- Eritrea says is has recaptured Tessanie, near Sudan, driving thousands of Ethiopian troops back south toward their border.
  • U-N-CONGO FIGHTING Voice of America 06 June 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council has formally condemned the latest flare-up of fighting in Congo-Kinshasa.
  • SOLOMON / COUP Voice of America 05 June 2000 -- The prime minister and governor-general of the Solomon Islands have been taken hostage in a coup attempt staged by a militia group -- the Malaita Eagle Force.
  • INDONESIA / PAPUA Voice of America 05 June 2000 -- Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid has rejected a declaration of independence for West Papua Province.
  • LEBANON / U-N Voice of America 05 June 2000 -- The United Nations says it has completed the charting of a line of withdrawal that can be used to confirm Israeli forces have pulled out of southern Lebanon.
  • Text: Journalism Group Criticizes Sri Lanka's Censorship 05 June 2000 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) sent a letter June 5 to the president of Sri Lanka stating that the organization is "deeply disturbed" that censorship regulations remain in place and restrictions on local media continue.
  • SRI LANKA CENSORSHIP Voice of America 05 June 2000 -- Sri Lanka's government is lifting its month- old censorship of foreign news reports on fighting between government troops and Tamil separatists.
  • NORTHERN IRELAND Voice of America 05 June 2000 -- Northern Ireland's home-rule assembly has resumed work after a four-month suspension because of the timing of paramilitary disarmament.
  • ETHIOPIA / ERITREA Voice of America 05 June 2000 -- Shelling continued Monday across the southern Bure front. Eritrea says the artillery exchange also included action from Ethiopia's air force.
  • CONGO / CLASHES Voice of America 05 June 2000 -- Fighting between Rwandan and Ugandan forces has broken out again in northeastern Congo, in the city of Kisangani.
  • PHILIPPINES BOMBING Voice of America 04 June 2000 -- Bombs early Sunday exploded at Manila's international airport and a bus depot on the main southern island of Mindanao.
  • CLINTON / CHECHNYA Voice of America 04 June 2000 -- President Clinton has renewed his appeal to Russia to find a political solution to the conflict in Chechnya.
  • SIERRA LEONE - U-N Voice of America 03 June 2000 -- In Sierra Leone, United Nations peacekeepers are digging in at a strategic cross-roads they fought to retake from rebel units Friday night.
  • LEBANON/BORDER Voice of America 03 June 2000 -- The United Nations says it is near an agreement with Lebanon on certifying Israel's military withdrawal from the southern part of the country.
  • ERITREA REFUGEES Voice of America 03 June 2000 -- The United Nations says about one-million Eritreans have been uprooted by the war with neighboring Ethiopia.
  • ETHIOPIA - ERITREA Voice of America 03 June 2000 -- For the second time in a week, Eritrea says Ethiopian warplanes have bombed the port of Assab.
  • LEBANON AFTER THE WITHDRAWAL Voice of America 02 June 2000 -- Flush with victory, Hezbollah is acting with moderation. After the Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon, the successful resistance fighters are curtailing violence.
  • TURKEY / KURDS Voice of America 02 June 2000 -- The Turkish government has banned the country's largest pro-Kurdish newspaper in five largely Kurdish provinces.
  • ERITREA ECONOMY Voice of America 02 June 2000 -- The war between Ethiopia and Eritrea has crippled two of Africa's poorest nations. But economists say if the war ends soon, Eritrea may emerge from the two-ear conflict in remarkably strong economic shape.
  • ETHIOPIA - ERITREA Voice of America 02 June 2000 -- Ethiopia says there has been more fighting in its border war with Eritrea, despite despite earlier reports from Addis Ababa that the conflict is over.
  • ETHIOPIA-ERITREA BORDER WAR Voice of America 02 June 2000 -- The war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, two of the world's poorest nations, appears to be slowing down -- at least for a while.
  • Horn Of Africa: 'Hunger And Weapons' Fuel Ethiopian-Eritrean Border War Foreign Media Reaction June 2, 2000 -- Most, however, focused on the OAU-sponsored peace negotiations currently under way in Algiers and wondered whether Ethiopia will be allowed to use the military gains from its recent 19-day offensive to dictate the terms of peace.
  • PROSECUTOR FOR INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL Press Release SC/6870 - 2 June 2000 -- An increasingly urgent problem for the Rwanda Tribunal was the length of trials and pre-trial detention faced by most accused.
  • CHECHYNA MASSACRE Voice of America 02 June 2000 -- A leading human rights organization is accusing Russian troops of massacring civilians in Chechnya earlier this year.
  • AFGHAN DROUGHT Voice of America 02 June 2000 -- The United Nations refugee agency reports that because of what it says is the worst drought for the past three decades in Afghanistan, it is slowing the return of Afghan refugees from neighboring Pakistan and Iran.
  • ACEH LEADER ASSASSINATION Voice of America 02 June 2000 -- A key separatist leader from Indonesia's troubled Aceh province has been gunned down in a gangland style murder at a restaurant in Kuala Lumpur.
  • Demonstrators Call for Greater U.S. Action on Sierra Leone By Jim Fisher-Thompson Washington File 01 June 2000 -- Students, human rights activists, and congressional staff members demonstrated outside the State Department May 31, calling for greater U.S. action to help bring an end to civil conflict in Sierra Leone.
  • PHILIPPINES - UNREST Voice of America 01 June 2000 -- Hostage-taking and other violence has people on edge throughout the Philippines - not just in the Southern part of the country which is a hotbed of Islamic separatism.
  • LEBANON: WHAT NEXT? Voice of America 01 June 2000 -- Israel has pulled its troops out of southern Lebanon. But thirty-five thousand Syrian troops remain in Lebanon, along with Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas.
  • LANKA REBELS Voice of America 01 June 2000 -- Sri Lanka's deputy defense minister says new weapon systems and a fresh counterattack has prevented the Tamil Tiger rebels from taking control of the northern Jaffna Peninsula.
  • U-N ERITREA REFUGEES Voice of America 01 June 2000 -- United Nations relief officials are struggling to cope with an estimated 150-thousand Eritreans who have fled the fighting between their country and Ethiopia.
  • ETHIOPIA/ERITREA REACT Voice of America 01 June 2000 -- Eritrea is refusing to accept Ethiopia's declaration that the war between the two East African neighbors is over.
  • ETHIOPIA / ERITREA Voice of America 01 June 2000 -- Ethiopia says its border war with Eritrea is over. But Ethiopia says its troops will remain in parts of Eritrea until there is formal cease-fire.
  • ACEH CEASE-FIRE Voice of America 01 June 2000 -- A cease-fire is set to go into effect in Indonesia's northern province of Aceh, but there are still reports of violence between government forces and separatist rebels in the area.



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