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• 5 April 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 05 Apr 2000
• PRESS CONFERENCE ON SITUATION IN ETHIOPIA United Nations 05 Apr 2000
• UNITA ACTIONS April 05, 2000 -- UNITA incursions into Namibia along the Kavango/Caprivi border regions continued this quarter.
• ISLAMIC INSURGENCY Wednesday, April 05, 2000 -- For the first time in recent years, the Islamist insurgency in Algeria has dropped significantly as compared to past reporting periods. After a sharp rise in incidents for November and December 1999, incidents are now considerably lower.
• INCIDENTS IN ACEH Wednesday, April 05, 2000 -- The daily Kompas (Jakarta) reported the following terrorist incidents in the troubled province of Aceh in the last few days.
• INDONESIA / RIGHTS Voice of America 05 April 2000 -- Indonesia's attorney general says the former head of the country's armed forces may not face prosecution for his alleged failure to prevent last year's militia rampage in East Timor.
• ROBINSON / CHECHNYA Voice of America 05 April 2000 -- The top U-N human-rights official has renewed her call for an investigation into alleged human rights abuses by Russian soldiers in Chechnya.

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• PRESS CONFERENCE ON SITUATION IN ETHIOPIA 5 April 2000 - Rudolph von Bernuth, of Save the Children, and Michael Delaney, Director of Humanitarian Assistance of Oxfam American, described themselves as "desperate" to bring to the world's attention the drought and famine crisis affecting millions of people in Ethiopia.
• Aid Organizations Warn of Impending Famine in Horn of AfricaBy Judy Aita Washington File 05 April 2000 -- Warning of impending widespread famine in the Horn of Africa, representatives of two major humanitarian aid organizations said April 5 that governments and relief agencies must begin sending food and water to Ethiopia immediately to prevent an even greater crisis in the region.
• ETHIOPIA/ AID APPEAL Voice of America 05 April 2000 -- Humanitarian aid groups are urging the international community to take immediate action to avert widespread human suffering in Ethiopia.
• AFRICA FAMINE Voice of America 05 April 2000 -- U-S Agency for International Development official Hugh Parmer, says as many as ten million people are now at risk of starvation in Ethiopia.