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A new government was announced on 22 May for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), headed by self-proclaimed President Laurent Kabila, leader of the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (ADFL). His cabinet includes…

KINSHASA (Reuter) - The main political opposition in Laurent Kabila's Democratic Republic of Congo has called a protest march for Wednesday in defiance of a ban, one day before he takes office as president. Opposition militants, banned from political activity, told…

KINSHASA (Reuter) - Several thousand opposition militants defied a ban on demonstrations and political activity in Kinshasa on Wednesday to denounce the presence of Rwandans among Laurent Kabila's forces and demand that they go home. But witnesses said soldiers from…

CHURCH WORLD SERVICE EMERGENCY RESPONSE OFFICE 33 Denominations & Communions Working Together to Meet Human Needs SITUATION: Conditions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo following the fall of exiled Zaire dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, have stabilized to a degree. However, the…

NATIONS UNIES Departement des Affaires Humanitaires / IRIN Tel: +254 2 622 147 Fax: +254 2 622 129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org IRIN: Bulletin quotidien no 183 d'information sur la region des Grands Lacs (du mercredi 28 mai 97) * Le HCR a appele les…

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.183 on the Great Lakes (28 May 1997) - UNHCR has appealed to Great Lakes countries not to force…

NATIONS UNIES Departement des Affaires Humanitaires / IRIN Tel: +254 2 622 147 Fax: +254 2 622 129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org IRIN: Bulletin quotidien no 182 d'information sur la region des Grands Lacs (du mardi 27 mai 97) * La television d'etat de la Republique Democratique…

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.182 on the Great Lakes (27 May 1997) - State television in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) said…

BURUNDI: Burundi refugees we are appealing to all countries in the region not to force back Burundi refugees, following a further series…

KINSHASA (Reuter) - Opposition militants said they would defy self-proclaimed President Laurent Kabila's ban on politics with a march in the capital on Wednesday and would follow this up with sit-ins and stay-home protests next week. But elsewhere in the…