Informes

On April 5 after weeks of delay -- during which hundreds of refugees died due to the lack of food and medical care -- the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (ADFL) granted access to the…

The twenty-one major operational partners of UNHCR listed hereunder, meeting in Geneva on 22 April 1997, together strongly expressed their support to the High Commissioner's statement of the 21st, appealing to all governments to take urgent action in support of…

(12:17pm AEST) Rebel soldiers in eastern Zaire have sealed off camps where more than 80-thousand Rwandan-Hutu refugees are trapped in primitive conditions which are extracting a high death toll. The United Nations has been trying to evacuate the refugees, but there…

Relief services remain paralyzed for the second straight day in the makeshift camps south of Kisangani. The authorities say that "military operations" are continuing for a second day in the area around the camps and therefore that we will…

DATE=4/21/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-213204 TITLE=ZAIRE / RIGHTS (L-ONLY) BYLINE=ANN RUBY DATELINE=GOMA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: AN INCREASING NUMBER OF CIVILIANS ARE BEING KILLED IN EASTERN ZAIRE AS SOLDIERS FROM LAURENT KABILA'S REBEL ALLIANCE SEEK OUT FORMER HUTU SOLDIERS AND MILITIA MEMBERS. MORE THAN 80 PEOPLE WERE GUNNED…

NATIONS UNIES Departement des Affaires Humanitaires / IRIN Tel: +254 2 622 147 Fax: +254 2 622 129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org IRIN: Bulletin quotidien no 154 d'informations sur la region des Grands Lacs (du samedi 19 au lundi 21 avril 97) * Une confirmation…

Judith Matloff, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor KINSHASA, ZAIRE -- When Zaire's strategic river city Kisangani fell to rebels last month, state-run television neglected to mention the fact in its evening news. Instead, it reported about plans for…

About the Report On January 16, 1997, the United States Institute of Peace and the U.S. Department of State cosponsored a one-day roundtable discussion of diplomats, scholars, and nongovernmental organization specialists on the unfolding crises in Zaire-both…

SG/SM/6212 Following is a statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan issued today in Geneva: I have been briefed today by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata, on the tragic situation faced by refugees and local residents in…

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees today called on the Kisangani authorities in Eastern Zaire to take urgent action to airlift Rwandan refugees home, saying that each day's delay would lead to more deaths. In a statement, High Commissioner…