Reports

The United Nations Secretary General has appealed to Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko and the country's rebels to soften their positions to avert considerable bloodshed around Kinshasa. The Secretary General, Kofi Annan, says Zaire continues to teeter on the brink…

*97042303.AAF (Burns issues written statement) (240) WASHINGTON -- The United States "deeply regrets that, once again, "humanitarian access to some 100,000 Rwandan refugees in eastern Zaire "has been cut off," U.S. State Department Spokesman Nicholas Burns stressed April 23. Following is the…

97042207.AAF (Speak to USIA at CCA summit, praise Mbeki involvement) (1070) By Jim Fisher-Thompson USIA Staff Writer WASHINGTON -- Two U.S. officials who have been intimately involved in guiding U.S. policy toward Africa over the past eight years, Assistant Secretary of State for…

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 155 d'informations sur la region des Grands Lacs (du mardi 22 avril 97) * Les perspectives d'une solution negociee a…

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.155 on the Great Lakes (Tuesday 22 April 1997) - Prospects for a negotiated settlement of the Zaire crisis…

DATE=4/22/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-213255 TITLE=ZAIRE REFUGEES (L) BYLINE=ANNE RUBY DATELINE=KINSANGI CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THERE ARE GROWING CONCERNS ABOUT THE FATE OF 80-THOUSAND RWANDIAN REFUGEES CAMPED OUTSIDE THE NORTHERN ZAIREAN TOWN OF KINSAGANI. INTERNATIONAL RELIEF WORKERS HAVE NOT HAD ACCESS TO THE REFUGEES IN TWO DAYS, AND…

The ADFL's Mr. Mawampanga accused the Government of China of flying some 400 combat troops into Kinshasa to support the Kinshasa government of Mr. Mobutu. The Government of China has strongly denied the allegation. Some analysts believe the allegation was…

PR/GVA/97/006 Geneva, 22 April --- UNICEF Executive Director, Carol Bellamy, issued a strong call for action today as the situation in eastern Zaire deteriorated further into tragedy. As the world watches and waits, hundreds of children are at deaths door, she…

Note: The last fact sheet was dated April 17, 1997. Background: In mid-October 1996, fighting broke out in South Kivu, Zaire between the Zairian army (FAZ) and the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (Alliance) led by Laurent…

DATE=4/22/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-213242 TITLE=ZAIRE / GOVERNMENT CQ (L-ONLY) BYLINE=PURNELL MURDOCK DATELINE=KINSHASA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE ZAIREAN GOVERNMENT SAYS IT WILL NEVER SURRENDER THE CAPITAL, KINSHASA, TO REBELS SEEKING TO OVERTHROW PRESIDENT MOBUTU SESE SEKO -- AND IT IS CALLING ON RESIDENTS TO HELP RESIST ANY…