Reports

An emergency relief worker of Community Aid Abroad in Central Africa warns that Rwandan refugees in Tanzania are risking their lives as they flee for fear of forced repatriation, making it impossible for aid agencies to reach them with…

The movement of hundreds of thousands of refugees in Tanzania has been continuing. They're still moving in an eastward direction. Many are saying they are heading for Kenya. We're talking about figures of 350,000, because as far as we know…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Fiscal Year (FY) 1997 -- December 12, 1996 Note: The last situation report was dated December 10, 1996. Overview The Banyamulenge and the Banyarwanda people, who are Tutsi…

10 (12/12/96) Red Cross Action Tanzania An estimated 300,000 Rwandan refugees left their camps in northern Tanzania, where they have lived for the last two and half years. Contrary to an anticipated repatriation back to Rwanda, the refugees are heading east into…

Tens of thousands of Rwandan refugees are on the move, leaving camps in Tanzania and refusing to go back to Rwanda. UNHCR sends a mission to Zaire's Shabunda region to look into reports up 100,000 Rwandan and Burundi refugees…

This report has been produced to fulfill the information requirements of the UNDHA Geneva Taskforce on Eastern Zaire and the UNDHA mission in the Great Lakes region. The report attempts to fill the gaps resulting from time delays and…

Eastern Zaire NGOs are unable to gain access to the area north of Goma. Reports suggest that fighting between rebel forces and the Zairean army continues, although exact details are not known. Rebel forces are believed to have reached the…

Operations completed: 1. One (1) airlift of 26.4 MT UNICEF urgent relief items from Copenhagen to Kampala/Uganda by Netherlands Airforce on 3 November 1996. 2. Four (4) airlifts with C-130 (60 MT of High Energy Biscuits) by the Belgium Airforce for…

Not an official document TANZANIA: With the assistance of the multi-national force led by Canada, WFP plans to airlift some 100 metric tons of corn-soya blend for camps in the Kibondo district of Kigoma region starting tomorrow. This airlift is to…

Regardless of precise numbers, there is common agreement now that a huge humanitarian problem remains in the Great Lakes region of central Africa: hundreds of thousands of refugees and internally displaced are still unaccounted for in eastern Zaire. The recent…