UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Sergio Vieira de Mello, who visited Ethiopia last week, said OCHA and the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) are working on a joint project to “increase African capacity on early warning and disaster preparedness”. De Mello, who met OAU Secretary-General Salim Ahmed Salim in Addis Ababa, said OCHA would organise a symposium next year to “chart out a multi-year action programme” on the subject. He assured Salim that further steps would be taken to increase the flow of information through OCHA’s presence in Addis Ababa, according to a UN statement.
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