Reports

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for the Great Lakes Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org [The weekly roundup is based on IRIN daily updates and other relevant information from UN agencies, NGOs, governments, donors and the…

KAMPALA, Uganda (PANA) - Laurent Kabila's Congolese Army, formerly the Allied Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (ADFL) is reportedly deploying into areas west of Rwenzori mountains to flush out Uganda rebels there. The usually well-informed government-owned daily, New Vision,…

HR/97/40 The Officer-in-Charge of the High Commissioner for Human Rights/Centre for Human Rights reported this morning that the advance team preparing the groundwork for the investigation of allegations of human rights violations in the east of former Zaire had made…

A senior World Bank delegation is in Kinshasa to meet with the Government of Congo. Ties between the Bank and Zaire were terminated in 1993 (ties with the International Monetary Fund were broken off shortly thereafter). The Bank's team…

Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme This is an excerpt of the original WFP report which includes: A) Resourcing Update B) Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo (Brazzaville), Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania C) Uganda D) West Africa…

CHURCH WORLD SERVICE EMERGENCY RESPONSE OFFICE 33 Denominations & Communions Working Together to Meet Human Needs SITUATION and RESPONSE: An assessment team of members of the Action by Churches Together (ACT) -- including CWS/ERO Director Rick Augsburger -- has completed its information…

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UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for the Great Lakes Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org IRIN Emergency Update No.198 on the Great Lakes (20 June 1997) - Armed gangs have killed 14 people in the northwest Burundi…

An inter-agency mission is attempting to provide assistance to Rwandan refugees in Congo-Brazzaville, mainly in Loukolela at the edge of the Congo river 5 kilometers from an airstrip. UNHCR sent a six-member emergency team there on Wednesday for the first time since fighting broke…

Judith Matloff, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor KINSHASA, CONGO -- They came to power by guns, not glad-handing. They once touted Marx but now talk markets. They don't order their pictures hung in public but instead build…