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emergency appeal no. 01.02/96 situation report no. 7 period covered: 27-28 October 1996 EMERGENCY REPORT - KIVU CRISIS Latest events Bukavu - after the departure of UN and NGO expatriate staff on Saturday 26, the Federation and the Red Cross Society of…

HR/4305 Information Gathered Tells of Continuing Summary Executions, Arbitrary Arrests, Torture and Persistent Impunity GENEVA, 26 October (UN Information Service) The Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Zaire has received no testimony…

BUKAVU, Zaire (Reuter) - Many refugees were reported killed in fighting in eastern Zaire as the last foreign aid workers in the beleaguered city of Bukavu fled by plane Monday. In the Zairean village of Bumba in North Kivu province,…

DATE=10/28/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-205217 TITLE=ZAIRE REFUGEES FOOD (L-ONLY) BYLINE=SONYA LAURENCE GREEN DATELINE=NAIROBI CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: AID AGENCIES ARE TRYING TO GET EMERGENCY FOOD SUPPLIES TO AT LEAST HALF A MILLION REFUGEES IN EASTERN ZAIRE NOW ON THE MOVE, UPROOTED BY RECENT FIGHTING BETWEEN ZAIREAN SOLDIERS AND…

(FR) (Officials say refugee situation is desperate) (1020) By Judy Aita USIA United Nations Correspondent UNITED NATIONS -- United Nations officials continued to describe the situation in eastern Zaire and the Great Lakes region of Africa as "desperate" and "chaotic" October 28 as…

BUKAVU, Zaire (Reuter) - The last foreign aid workers in the beleaguered city of Bukavu fled by plane on Monday as refugees reaching Rwanda reported many had died in the east Zaire fighting. In the Zairean village of Bumba in…

REUTERS BUKAVU, Zaire The United Nations pulled its aid workers out of eastern Zaire on Saturday as a conflict that pits Tutsi rebels against Zairian troops threatened to engulf much of the region. U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali earlier called for an…

BUKAVU, Zaire (Reuter) - The United Nations pulled its aid workers out of eastern Zaire after conflict pitting Tutsi rebels against Zairean troops threatened to engulf much of the region. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali earlier called for an emergency mission…

Radio Agatashya, la radio indepentante a vocation humanitaire geree par la Fondation Hirondelle, n'a pas pu diffuser ses Umissions ce dimanche matin 27 octobre dans la region du Kivu. Certains emetteurs, situes en zone de combat, sont momentanement hors…

The United Nations High Commissioner for refugees called Sunday on combatants in eastern Zaire to stop attacking refugees and civilians and to open humanitarian corridors for those caught in the fighting. "I have received reports from UNHRC's field officers that our…