Reports

From Ghion Hagos ; PANA Staff Correspondent ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (PANA) - Seven African states have accepted to contribute soldiers to serve in the proposed multinational humanitarian force in eastern Zaire, the OAU Secretary-General, Salim Ahmed Salim, said in Addis…

DAKAR, Senegal (PANA ) - Declaring the situation in Zaire "a grave emergency", the director-general of the World Health Organization, Hiroshi Nakajima, has ordered airliftiing of an emergency evaluation team and the stockpiling of medicines in anticipation of further threats…

November 13, 1996. GOMA, ZAIRE-The age-old regional, ethnic conflict between tribes in Zaire has reawakened in war, causing many deaths and many more to flee the country. The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) and all other nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)…

This summary 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 summary ensures coverage of events due to time differences and should…

(FR) (Davies says humanitarian intervention will require security) (1340) By Robert Fullerton USIA Staff Writer WASHINGTON -- The United States continues to "intensely" assess what steps it can and will take as part of international efforts to resolve the worsening humanitarian crisis in…

Gail Russell Chaddock and Judith Matloff, Staff writers of The Christian Science Monitor PARIS AND KINSHASA, ZAIRE -- Two weeks after aid workers were forced to abandon eastern Zaire's refugees to ethnic fighting, the world still struggles to respond. The United…

GENEVA (Reuter) - The U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday that it would start airlifting relief supplies within days to hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees fleeing Tutsi rebels in eastern Zaire. Spokeswoman Ruth Marshall told reporters that supplies would…

The situation in Eastern Zaire is worsening. As each day passes and more people are feared dead from exhaustion, starvation or disease, continuing international prevarication and delay become yet more indefensible. In recent days, some aid agencies have entered…

Oxfam today welcomed Canada's commitment to head a multinational military force to protect relief supplies into Eastern Zaire. The charity said Canada's decision had broken the international logjam and finally added urgency and global morality which has been shamefully lacking…

News Service 213/96 AI INDEX: AFR 02/19/96 ADDIS ABABA -- Speaking at an emergency meeting of the Conflict Resolution Mechanism of the Organization of Africa Unity (OAU) in Addis Ababa yesterday, Amnesty International's Secretary General Pierre Sane called on participating governments…