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• 6 April 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 06 Apr 2000
• ANNAN / HORN OF AFRICA Voice of America 06 April 2000 -- United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan is calling for quick action and generous support from the international community in helping starving people in the Horn of Africa region.
• 18 Million Africans at Risk of Starvation in Horn By Charles W. Corey Washington File 06 April 2000 -- Eighteen million Africans are now at risk of starvation from drought in the Horn of Africa and more than half of those potential famine victims are living in already hard-hit Ethiopia, warned a top U.S. relief official who just returned from the region.
• SECRETARY-GENERAL PLEASED BY AGREEMENT IN EAST TIMOR CONCERNING JUDICIAL, HUMAN RIGHTS MATTERS Press Release SG/SM/7353 -- 6 April 2000 - This agreement will facilitate the working together of the United Nations and Indonesia on investigations and prosecutions of those responsible for last year's violence in East Timor.
• SUDAN / POLITICS Voice of America 06 April 2000 -- Senior members of Sudan's influential Umma opposition party are returning home after years in exile.
• YUGOSLAVIA / MEDIA Voice of America 06 April 2000 -- The World Association of Newspapers has sent a letter to Yugoslav authorities to protest restrictions on independent media in Serbia.
• RWANDA GENOCIDE MEMORIAL Voice of America 06 April 2000 -- Rwanda is commemorating the country's 1994 genocide in which an estimated 800-thousand Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered by Hutu extremists.
• ISRAEL / LEBANON Voice of America 06 April 2000 -- Israeli defense officials are warning that the government's plans to withdraw Israeli troops from southern Lebanon could lead to attacks on Israeli towns that border Lebanon.
• U-S AND INDONESIA Voice of America 06 April 2000 -- Muslims have called for a jihad or holy war against Christians in the Moluccan Islands. So far, some two thousand people have died in religious warfare.
• INDONESIA - MUSLIM RALLY Voice of America 06 April 2000 -- More than five-thousand people have staged a Muslim prayer rally in the Indonesian capital Jakarta. They met to launch a jihad or holy war against the killing of Muslims in Maluku province.
• RUSSIA / CHECHNYA Voice of America 06 April 2000 -- Russian lawmakers are speaking out as Moscow mulls over an official response to a decision by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to suspend Russia's voting rights in the 41-member body.
• INCREASED FARC ACTIVITY Thursday, April 06, 2000 -- Colombian and international media reported that FARC activity has increased in Meta and Cudinamarca Departments

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• U-N / TORTURE Voice of America 06 April 2000 -- A special United Nations investigator says torture is widely practiced throughout the world.