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UN special adviser visits Angola

    JOHANNESBURG

    Ibrahim Gambari, the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General for Special Assignments in Africa, is in Angola for a weeklong visit, a spokesman for the Secretary-General said on Wednesday.

    Speaking at the noon briefing at UN headquarters in New York, Fred Eckhard said that Gambari arrived on Tuesday afternoon and was scheduled to meet President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos on Thursday before travelling to Huambo, in the central highlands, on Saturday where he would see “firsthand the conditions of internally displaced persons (IDPs) there”.

    “Over the coming week Gambari is expected to hold discussions with the Angolan government on a variety of issues, including the prospects for a negotiated peace settlement in that country and for elections intended for next year, and the role of the UN office in Angola,” Eckhard said.

    The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in a special alert on Wednesday that Angola needs 333,000 mt of emergency food assistance for at least the next 12 months.

    It cited figures of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) that continued warfare had pushed the number of IDPs to nearly 2.6 million, 1.9 million of whom urgently need humanitarian assistance.

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