Reports

Two years after the genocide in Rwanda, Human Rights Watch and FIDH (Federation Internationale des Droits de l'Homme) charge the Zairian government with complicity in the ethnic violence in North Kivu in eastern Zaire, which has forced most of…

Rwanda's Exiles Spread Their Terror EVEN BY Africa's usual standards of strife, the first half of 1996 has been filled with disturbing news. Renewed civil war in Liberia. Worsening violence in Burundi. More fighting among warlords in Somalia, accompanied by deepening…

U N I T E D N A T I O N S Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: + 254 2 441125 Fax: + 254 2 448816 e-mail: irin@dha.unep.org This is number 16 in a series of…

United Nations seeks US$ 863,000 for humanitarian assistance to persons displaced in North Kivu province of eastern Zaire and seeks US$ 1,138,563 to enhance its coordination role for humanitarian assistance in the Great Lakes Region New York/ Geneva, 10 July…

Trip to Obtain First-Hand Information on Flight of Refugees,Internally-Displaced Persons In view of the events taking place in the North Kivu province of Zaire -- where thousands of persons have been forced to flee their homes to seek safe havens…

La Belgique a-t-elle perdu la raison? La Belgique a-t-elle perdu la raison? L'UDPS, principal parti d'opposition radicale au Zaïre, est ulcéré par le rapprochement belgo-zaïrois qui s'est opéré ce lundi, à l'occasion de l'invitation par le gouvernement du Premier ministre…

Written by Shelden Yett Published by the U.S. Committee for Refugees, June 1996 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Masisi and surrounding areas of the North Kivu province of eastern Zaire have been the scene of sporadic but intense violence since 1993. Since late 1995,…

GOMA: A View From The Field CARE field worker Mark Richardson looks back on the cataclysmic events of last July and what it means to humanitarians worldwide. GOMA, Zaire -- Driving north from town last week, I stopped the Land Rover…

DATE=6/7/96 TITLE=ZAIRE / ETHNIC CLEANSING (L) BYLINE=MAXIM KNIAZKOV DATELINE=WASHINGTON INTRO: A U-S HUMANITARIAN GROUP SAYS IT WANTS TO DRAW ATTENTION TO WHAT IT SEES AS A LARGE-SCALE ETHNIC CLEANSING CAMPAIGN UNDER WAY IN AFRICA. THE SCENE IS EASTERN ZAIRE. THE U-S COMMITTEE FOR…

By CHRIS TOMLINSON Associated Press Writer KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) _ A least a dozen aid workers were evacuated from Goma, Zaire, on Tuesday because of increasing violence around refugee camps. The city's airport, closed for three days, re-opened Tuesday afternoon, U.N. security…