Reports

Lionel Williams PANA Correspondent JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (PANA) The first face-to-face peace talks between representatives of the Zairean Government and the country's guerrilla movement is now tentatively scheduled for Saturday in Cape Town, South Africa. Confirming this Monday in Johannesburg, a United…

A telephone conversation with Marie de la Soudiere, UNICEF advisor on UACs, resulted in the following information: Marie has just returned from a trip to Kisangai to assess the situation of unaccompanied children (UACs) in the area. The trip…

(extract) HR/CN/97/30 1 April 1997 Sadako Ogata, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, this morning appealed to the international community to help with the ordeal of Zairean civilians and Rwandan refugees caught in the war in eastern Zaire. In an…

NATIONS UNIES Departement des Affaires Humanitaires / IRIN Tel: +254 2 622 147 Fax: +254 2 622 129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org * Des representants du Haut Commissariat aux Refugies qui travaillent sur le terrain ont decrit aujourd'hui la situation de pres de 100.000 refugies…

In Zaire, rebels claim they have captured more territory ahead of peace talks with the government. Reports from Zaire say the rebels seized the town of Kamina in mineral-rich Shaba province in their advance on the provincial capital Lubumbashi. Lubumbashi is…

BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) ZAIRE - Complex Emergency April 1, 1997 Note: The last fact sheet was dated March 27, 1997. Background: In mid-October, 1996 fighting broke out in South Kivu, Zaire between…

Military Police in Lubumbashi have been disarming retreating Zairean army soldiers to prevent looting of the city. The soldiers seized a train while fleeing the rebel advance on Kamina and were disarmed without resistance at the Lubumbashi railway station.…

Report #28 Contact: David Shorr (202) 828-0110 In the last few days, conditions for the refugees south of Kisangani have become much worse than they already were. The ADFL-ordered closing of the northernmost camp at Lula (seven kilometers outside Kisangani) forced exhausted…

(extract) The Oxfam Emergencies Bulletin aims to give an overview of Oxfams current emergency work world-wide, for use in communications work. It appears monthly. For further information, contact Maurice Herson in the Emergencies Department. [ Telephone 01865 312540; e-mail mherson@oxfam.org.uk ] Central Africa (Great…

(WFP says hundreds of bodies line roadsides south of Kisangani) (430) By Wendy Lubetkin USIA European Correspondent GENEVA -- Describing the refugee situation in Zaire as "catastrophic," the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) appealed to the international community April 1 to stabilize…