Reports

FAITS MAJEURS 4000 personnes sont arrivées cette semaine à Minova et environs, dans la province du Sud-Kvu à la suite des combats entre deux brigades de la 8ème Région Militaire. Selon l'Administrateur du Territoire de Minova, au moins 3000 personnes…

ONUB/PIO/PR/40/2004 Bujumbura, Burundi - This week ONUB inaugurates a new phase of its operations in Burundi, with the deployment of mission staff in the provinces. On this Tuesday, November 2nd 2004, ONUB deployed forty or so people in two of its…

HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITIES 1 Bujumbura Rural: Back-to-School follow-up UNICEF Director for Eastern and Southern Africa Region, Per Engebak, visited Burundi on 26-27 October to follow up on the Back-to-School campaign launched by the Government of Burundi (GoB) on 14 October. With UNICEF support…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The information presented in this document represents best estimates of the number of displaced, refugees and vulnerable populations throughout the Great Lakes Region. Sources of information include UN agencies, NGOs, the Red Cross family, central…

HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITIES UNESCO, fight aiganst HIV/AIDS in youth The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in collaboration with the UNESCO Regional office in Nairobi, held a two-day regional meeting (19-21 October) for the youth from Erythrea, Uganda, Rwanda and…

HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITIES FAO assistance to the vulnerable Over the reporting week, FAO supplied 125,500 vulnerable families (circa 627,500 persons) with emergency seed assistance comprising beans, maize, vegetables and hoes in the provinces of Bubanza, Bujumbura Rural, Bururi, Cankuzo, Cibitoke, Kayanza, Karuzi, Gitega,…

HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITIES Japanese Government to assist Burundi IDPs and returnees On 1 October, the Government of Japan (GoJ) and the UN announced some 109 million yen (US $999,000) in aid through the Trust Fund for Human Security, for assistance to…

HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITIES 1 Burundi joins International Criminal Court Burundi has become the 95th country to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The instruments for ratification were presented to the UN on Tuesday 21 September. International NGOs Global Rights…

HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITIES 1 Update on Congolese refugees While large numbers of Congolese refugees were reported to have spontaneously returned to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), 130 refugees from the Rugombo site and three from Bujumbura city were transferred…

HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITIES 1 Update on Congolese refugees Large numbers of Congolese refugees are reported to have returned to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in recent weeks. UNHCR still cannot access the border to monitor any returns, and is…