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CHIMANGA CAMP, Zaire (Reuter) - Tutsi rebels massacred more than 300 Rwandan and Burundian Hutu refugees at a camp 25 miles southwest of the regional capital Bukavu, local Zaireans said Monday. Residents of nearby Kakinda village and a survivor said that…

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. 39 on eastern Zaire (Monday 25 November 1996) The Rwandan government has begun registration of returnees in the…

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. 38 on eastern Zaire (24-25 November 1996) Some 6,000 refugees arriving in Goma over the weekend are reported…

Ed O'Loughlin, Special to The Christian Science Monitor GOMA, ZAIRE -- Five years after the cold war's end, a veteran African revolutionary has donned fatigues once again to take on the world. The last 30 years have not been kind to…

1. 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…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Note: The last situation report was dated November 22, 1996. Overview The Banyamulenge and the Banyarwanda people, who are Tutsi of Rwandan origin, settled in the…

Continued calls for the deployment of U.S. and other international troops in eastern Zaire have inadvertently hindered rather than helped efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to hundreds of thousands of uprooted persons in the area, according to an assessment on…

Except for small groups on the road, most of the estimated 500,000 returnees are back in their communes in Rwanda. UN inter=ADagency humanitarian mission finds few refugees in the Bukavu region, gets unconfirmed reports of huge gatherings of refugees and…

GOMA, Zaire (Reuter) - Rwandan refugees are emerging from the forests of eastern Zaire saying many more are on their way, but just how many appears to be critical with the despatch of a promised international military force still…

U N I T E D N A T I O N S Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org This is number 36 in a series of weekly reports from…