Informes

France has launched a fresh attempt to persuade its European Union partners to support an international intervention in Zaire. Senior foreign ministry officials from the 15 EU states met in Brussels to discuss the humanitarian crisis in eastern Zaire and French…

DATE=3/14/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-211448 TITLE=ZAIRE UNREST (L) BYLINE=SCOTT STEARNS DATELINE=MUSENGE CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: REPORTERS COVERING THE CIVIL WAR IN EASTERN ZAIRE HAVE ENCOUNTERED A FIELD OF DEATH NEAR THE BORDER WITH RWANDA. RED CROSS OFFICIALS ON LOCATION SAY ZAIRIAN REBELS KILLED RWANDAN REFUGEES TRYING TO RETURN…

The humanitarian situation in Zaire continues to be grim. There are up to 100,000 refugees massed on the eastern bank of the Zaire river across from Ubundu there are more on their way. Some people, perhaps several hundred or…

6:25 PM EST KINSHASA, Zaire (Reuter) - Zaire's rebels, whose deadline for the army to lay down its arms expired Thursday, were believed advancing on several fronts -- notably in or near the economically vital mineral provinces of Shaba and…

HR/CN/97/9 Main UN Human Rights Body Continues Debate on Occupied Territories Commission on Human Rights Special Rapporteur Enrique Bernales Ballesteros called this afternoon for national and international steps to curb the use of mercenaries. Presenting a report to the Commission as…

HR/97/14 13 March 1997 Roberto Garret=A2n Expresses Profound Concern Over Deteriorating Situation in East of Country The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Zaire, Roberto Garret=A2n, has expressed profound concern over the continuing deterioration of human rights in…

Zaire's Prime Minister says Government troops will defend the key town of Kisangani, currently under seige by Tutsi-led rebels in the east of the country. Africa correspondent Ben Wilson reports, the rebels claim to be within 10-kilometres of the city…

A United Nations agency says at least 30 refugees have died of disease in the past three days at the Tingi-Tingi and Amisi camps in eastern Zaire. A refugee agency official says 13 aid workers flew to the camps, abandoned…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org - A plot against Burundi leader Pierre Buyoya - possibly planned by hard-line Tutsi military officers - appears to have been thwarted. Burundian state…

DATE=3/13/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-211377 TITLE=ZAIRE / DEADLINE (L) BYLINE=PURNELL MURDOCK DATELINE=KINSHASA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: ZAIRIAN REBELS HAVE GIVEN GOVERNMENT TROOPS AN ULTIMATUM TO SURRENDER (THURSDAY) AND JOIN THE REBELLION. MEANWHILE, AS V-O-A'S PURNELL MURDOCK REPORTS FROM KINSHASA, BOTH THE REBELS AND GOVERNMENT TROOPS ARE PREPARING FOR…