Reports

ACT Co-ordinating Office Medicine for Eastern Zaire Geneva, February 24, 1997 Zaire - medicine for Kisangani ACT/NCA is flying 800 kg of medical supplies to Kisangani, Eastern Zaire today Monday. The medicine will be distributed through church run (Cepza/Celpa) dispensaries in the…

Note: The last situation report was dated February 14, 1997. Overview The Banyamulenge and the Banyarwanda people, who are Tutsi of Rwandan origin, settled in the Mulenge hills of South Kivu, Zaire, and the Masisi region of North Kivu, Zaire, more…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org - Efforts continued today in Cape Town, South Africa, to bring the warring parties in Zaire together for talks. Parks Mankahlana, spokesman for President…

*97022004.AAF (Aim is acceptance of Security Council-backed plan) (310) By Judy Aita USIA United Nations Correspondent UNITED NATIONS -- Talks on the crisis in eastern Zaire are expected to get under way in South Africa by the weekend, U.N. officials said February 20.…

Zairian soldiers retreating from the country's Kivu region have pillaged, raped and killed with virtual impunity in recent months, with people in many towns and villages living in constant fear that they will become the next victims of such human…

ZAIRE: TINGI-TINGI: UNICEF Representative Ibrahim Jabr reported that the nutritional status of the refugees was on the mend in Tingi-Tingi. This is mainly due to the fact that more food supplies are now reaching Tingi-Tingi. Flights into Kisangani are…

In late December the ICRC decided to withdraw temporarily from Kindu and Shabunda, eastern Zaire, due to poor security conditions. Over the past few weeks, however, the ICRC has been able to resume and expand its activities in both…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org - Representatives from the Zairean government and the rebel Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (ADFL) have reportedly arrived in South…

Preparations are being made for a census of refugee populations in makeshift camps in eastern Zaire. UNHCR team visits Kindu in central Zaire to look into the possibility of bringing in emergency relief supplies overland for refugees in the Kalima…

TRIPOLI, Libya (PANA) - President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire has commended the Libyan leader, Col. Moammar Khadafi for supporting his country in the ongoing war with rebels in the eastern part of the country. In a message to the…