Reports

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Note: The last fact sheet was dated November 15, 1996. Current Situation: On Thursday afternoon, troops from the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of…

GOMA: Movement of people towards and across the border continues. A reported 70,000 to 80,000 people have already crossed into Rwanda. Their condition are reported reasonable. WFP is distributing high energy biscuits as primary relief food assistance. It is…

UNITED NATIONS Security Council 15 November 1996 [IRIN Note: This is an unofficial transcript of the text of UN Security Council Resolution 1080 (1996).] The Security Council, Reaffirming its resolution 1078 (1996) of 9 November 1996, Gravely concerned at the continuing deteriorating situation in the…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org IRIN Emergency Update No. 25 on Eastern Zaire, November 15, 1996 Nairobi - Refugees continued to stream across the Zairean border into Rwanda throughout…

Judith Matloff, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor KISANGANI, ZAIRE -- Thousands of Rwandan refugees are believed to be hiding in the dense forest between Kisangani and Goma, but the situation is so volatile here that international aid workers…

MUGUNGA CAMP, Zaire (Reuter) - Hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees Friday trudged back to the homeland they fled in panic after the genocide against Tutsis in 1994. A sea of refugees blocked the road through the Zairean town…

ROME (Nov 15, 1996 01:30 a.m. EST) Zaire said on Thursday all aid for starving refugees in the east of the country should be sent to Rwanda and Burundi to encourage the refugees to return home and accused the…

Baltimore-- Catholic Relief Services applauded the US governments decision to intervene in eastern Zaire today, and said that it was the first step in what will have to be a long-term process of peace and reconciliation in the region.…

GA/SHC/3391 (...) Events of the last weeks in the Great Lakes region of Africa had confirmed the seriousness of preventing another human catastrophe, according to the Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Burundi, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro. He said economic…

Christian Reformed World Relief Committee WHO: Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC), the relief-development-education agency of the Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRCNA). WHAT: Compassionate, quick response to Rwandan refugees fleeing from death and starvation in rebel-held territory of Central Africas Great…