AFRO-NETS> New UN Web site for Africa

New UN Web site for Africa
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Did you know the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humani-
tarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) is now hosting a free daily humanitarian news
update on sub-Saharan Africa on the World Wide Web?

On the site, you will find original news reports, maps and images cov-
ering all the latest developments in the region brought to you by UN-
OCHA's Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) - and it is all
available right now at:
http://www.reliefweb.int/IRIN

The site is updated with Africa's latest humanitarian, development, so-
cial, economic and political information three times every day, and
also includes an extensive archive, reports from other humanitarian
agencies, a link to ReliefWeb's search engine and a form to subscribe
to IRIN reports by e-mail.

So go ahead and bookmark http://www.reliefweb.int/IRIN today for your
daily humanitarian information update on sub-Saharan Africa.

Please feel free to copy this e-mail to anyone else in your organisa-
tion with an interest in humanitarian developments in Africa.

Robin Schofield
IRIN Web Project Manager
United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN)
Johannesburg
South Africa
mailto:robin@schofield.net

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