Informes

Rocket and mortar fire has been heard in the outskirts of Lubumbashi. One observer has reported that he believed the mortars were 120 mm. Heavy gunfire has also been reported. Preliminary reports are that Zairean soldiers are fleeing, but…

ZAIRE-POLITICS: by Allan Peters CHILILABOMBWE, Zambia, Apr 8 (IPS) - For the past few days, most of the traffic at the border post near here has been one-way, involving Zaireans and expatriates anxious to leave Zaire as a rebel…

The forces of rebel leader, Laurent Kabila, are closing in on the Zaire's second largest city, provoking panic among Government soldiers who are supposed to be defending the town. Africa correspondent Ben Wilson reports there is also growing unrest in…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for the Great Lakes Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org - Fighting was reported on the outskirts of Zaire's second largest city, Lubumbashi overnight and again this morning. A curfew from…

UNHCR is gearing up to begin what could be one of its biggest and possibly most complex airlift of refugees. We hope to begin airlifting some of the 100,000 refugees we have identified in two makeshift encampments in eastern…

Note: The last fact sheet was dated April 3, 1997. Background: In mid-October 1996, fighting broke out in South Kivu, Zaire between the Zairian army (FAZ) and the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (Alliance) led by Laurent…

*97040801.AAF (Air repatriation may be largest ever) (470) By Wendy Lubetkin USIA European Correspondent GENEVA -- The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has begun preparations for one of the biggest -- and possibly the most complex -- air repatriation operations it has ever…

Segun Adeyemi PANA Correspondent NEW YORK (PANA) - The UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Zaire, Robert Garreton, Tuesday called for an investigation of what he termed gross human rights violations by Zairean rebels, who are…

5:18 PM EDT KINSHASA, Zaire (Reuter) - Zaire's embattled president Mobutu Sese Seko declared a state of emergency Tuesday in the teeming capital Kinshasa and throughout the rest of the Central African nation, over a third of which is under…

LUBUMBASHI, Zaire (Reuter) - Diehard members of Zaire's collapsing army said Tuesday they had repulsed an attempt by rebels to seize the copper city of Lubumbasha, which was rocked by explosions and gunfire overnight. "We have repulsed the enemy," said an…