Democratic Republic of the Congo
DHA/96/24 Le Département des affaires humanitaires des Nations Unies (DHA) a apporté son soutien au Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM) et à l'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) pour l'envoi par avion de 38 tonnes de biscuits protéinés et de médicaments…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
DHA/96/24 SPECIAL EMERGENCY DHA/WHO/WFP AIRLIFT WITH THE SUPPORT OF ITALIAN GOVERNMENT TO BRING RELIEF TO POPULATIONS IN NEED IN EASTERN ZAIRE The United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs (DHA) has provided support to World Food Programme (WFP), and World Health Organisation (WHO),…
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PART I - HIGHLIGHTS (Details below in Part II) A. EAST AFRICA: REGIONAL OPERATION FOR BURUNDI, RWANDA, ZAIRE AND TANZANIA 1. Eastern Zaire a) Regional Summit in Nairobi on 5 November calls for neutral military intervention, establishment of humanitarian corridors and an immediate…
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U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) ZAIRE - Complex Emergency BACKGROUND: The Banyamulenge and the Banyarwanda people, who are Tutsi of Rwandan origin, settled in the Mulenge hills of South Kivu,…
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(Broad range of options under consideration, Burns says) (600) By Charles W. Corey USIA Staff Writer WASHINGTON -- The United States is considering a broad array of options and contingency plans regarding the crisis in Eastern Zaire, but no new policy decisions…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
A million refugees are spreading across the Zaire countryside, having lost their UN lifeline to clean water and food. Already the weak are beginning to perish -- infants, nursing mothers, and the elderly. This threatens to become the gravest…
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Military intervention now to save lives and secure long term peace and justice Two of the world's largest aid agencies, Oxfam and Medecins Sans Frontieres, joined today in a call for immediate deployment of troops into Zaire to save the…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
ZAIRE This is a field report from our team in Gisenyi, who interviewed a few of the 2,000-odd Rwandan refugees who have been crossing back into Rwanda after days of war-like conditions. This was a group of about a half…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
(FR) (Diplomatic initiatives also under way) (240) By Jacquelyn Porth USIA Security Affairs Writer WASHINGTON -- "Prudent planning" is under way for possible use of U.S. forces in contingency operations in Eastern Zaire, Defense Department spokesman Captain Mike Doubleday told reporters November 7. Although…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
GOMA, Zaire (Reuter) - Mortar and anti-aircraft fire are thundering again in eastern Zaire, making worse the plight of a million Hutu refugees uprooted anew in the country they fled to after ethnic bloodbaths in Rwanda and Burundi. Zaireans scattered…
