Reports

(extract) WFP EMERGENCY REPORT Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme Report No. 32 of 1997 Date: 8 August 1997 This report includes: A) Democratic People's Republic of Korea B) East Africa: Burundi, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda C) Central Africa: Democratic Republic…

After contacting all the relevant authorities in the northern and southern parts of the capital, Brazzaville, on 1 August the ICRC and volunteers from the Congolese Red Cross removed five corpses from areas of the city close to the…

"Liberate the liberator" wrote the Congoles daily ,"Le Potentiel" thus indicating what many of the five million Kinois fear that the President 'Pappa' Kabila is a hostage to his Rwandan advisors and actually in grave danger. Ever since the arrival…

UNIVERSITY =A0 of Lubumbashi students who were displaced during Mobutu's Lubumbashi massacre of 1990 are now faced with a new challenge - to return to what has now been renamed the Democratic Republic of Congo or to continue living…

Press Release SG/A/645 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan: Secretary-General Kofi Annan today named Atsu-Koffi Amega of Togo as Chairman of an investigative team to look into alleged human rights abuses in…

The increased activity of monkeypox which occurred in Katako-Kombe health zone, Sankuru sub-region, Kasai Oriental region during 1996 (see Weekly Epidemiological Record No.15, 1997, pp.101-104) continues in 1997. During the period March to May 1997, 170 cases suspected to be…

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuter) - The U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said Wednesday the majority of an estimated 90,000 refugees who fled the former Zaire for Tanzania want to return home. The signing of a tripartite agreement between the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and…

MID-TERM REVIEW July 1997 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 1.1 Background 1.2 Summary of the Response Received so far 1.3 The Contents of this Mid-term Review 2. Review of Country Situations3. Review of Regional Humanitarian Strategy4. Review of Coordination Arrangements5. Review of Agency…

DATE=6/26/97 TYPE=BACKGROUND REPORT NUMBER=5-36808 TITLE=CONGO / KILLINGS BYLINE=DIANNA CAHN DATELINE=KIGALI CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: CONGOLESE PRESIDENT LAURENT KABILA IS FACING NEW ALLEGATIONS THAT TROOPS FIGHTING IN HIS REBELLION TO CAPTURE ZAIRE EARLIER THIS YEAR MASSACRED HUNDREDS AND EVEN THOUSANDS OF RWANDAN HUTU REFUGEES. DIANNA CAHN…

World Bank representatives appear to have left their meetings with the Kabila administration in Kinshasa with a good taste in their mouths, as they have pledged to hold a meeting of donors in early September to address the matter…