Reports

GOMA, Zaire (Reuter) - Rebels battling toward the city of Kisangani have met stiff resistance, but rebel leader Laurent Kabila has rejected calls for a truce, rebel sources and diplomats said on Friday. Rebel radio said fighting between rebels and a…

The humanitarian situation in Zaire continues to be grim. There are up to 100,000 refugees massed on the eastern bank of the Zaire river across from Ubundu there are more on their way. Some people, perhaps several hundred or…

6:25 PM EST KINSHASA, Zaire (Reuter) - Zaire's rebels, whose deadline for the army to lay down its arms expired Thursday, were believed advancing on several fronts -- notably in or near the economically vital mineral provinces of Shaba and…

HR/CN/97/9 Main UN Human Rights Body Continues Debate on Occupied Territories Commission on Human Rights Special Rapporteur Enrique Bernales Ballesteros called this afternoon for national and international steps to curb the use of mercenaries. Presenting a report to the Commission as…

HR/97/14 13 March 1997 Roberto Garret=A2n Expresses Profound Concern Over Deteriorating Situation in East of Country The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Zaire, Roberto Garret=A2n, has expressed profound concern over the continuing deterioration of human rights in…

Zaire's Prime Minister says Government troops will defend the key town of Kisangani, currently under seige by Tutsi-led rebels in the east of the country. Africa correspondent Ben Wilson reports, the rebels claim to be within 10-kilometres of the city…

A United Nations agency says at least 30 refugees have died of disease in the past three days at the Tingi-Tingi and Amisi camps in eastern Zaire. A refugee agency official says 13 aid workers flew to the camps, abandoned…

DATE=3/13/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-211377 TITLE=ZAIRE / DEADLINE (L) BYLINE=PURNELL MURDOCK DATELINE=KINSHASA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: ZAIRIAN REBELS HAVE GIVEN GOVERNMENT TROOPS AN ULTIMATUM TO SURRENDER (THURSDAY) AND JOIN THE REBELLION. MEANWHILE, AS V-O-A'S PURNELL MURDOCK REPORTS FROM KINSHASA, BOTH THE REBELS AND GOVERNMENT TROOPS ARE PREPARING FOR…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org - A plot against Burundi leader Pierre Buyoya - possibly planned by hard-line Tutsi military officers - appears to have been thwarted. Burundian state…

UNHCR moves on two fronts to provide emergency relief to refugees in government-controlled areas of east-central Zaire and territory under the Alliance of Democratic Forces for Liberation (ADFL). In Kisangani, UNHCR staff are transporting supplies for more than 100,000 refugees…