Informes

DATE=3/11/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-211248 TITLE=FRANCE / ZAIRE (L ONLY) BYLINE=JULIAN NUNDY DATELINE=PARIS CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: FRENCH PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC HAS APPEALED TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO TAKE URGENT ACTION TO STOP THE MASSACRES IN ZAIRE. JULIAN NUNDY REPORTS FROM PARIS. TEXT: IN UNUSUALLY STRONG LANGUAGE, FRENCH PRESIDENT JACQUES…

*97031003.AAF (Statement urges rebels to accept U.N. 5-point plan) (450) By Suzanne Granfar USIA Special Correspondent UNITED NATIONS -- Underlining "the urgent need for a comprehensive and coordinated response by the international community" to support efforts of the U.N./Organization of African Unity (OAU) special…

First UN assessment mission to Tingi-Tingi following its capture by the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (ADFL) finds hundreds of refugees in makeshift encampments needing aid. UN resumes relief activities in Kisangani, looks at ways of delivering…

*97030301.AAF (Zaire government and Alliance forces agree to talk) (600) By Robert Fullerton USIA Staff Writer WASHINGTON -- The United States has lauded South Africa for its "leadership role" in seeking an end to the fighting in eastern Zaire. At the daily…

10 5:05 PM EST KINSHASA, Zaire (Reuter) - Rebels closing in on Zaire's city of Kisangani are concentrating their forces on the road leading into town from the southeast, military sources said Monday. The government denied rebel claims to have surrounded Kisangani,…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org - The leader of the rebel group, the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (ADFL), Laurent-Desire Kabila, said on Saturday that…

Judith Matloff, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor JOHANNESBURG -- After five months of threatening to destabilize the heart of Africa, the uprising in Zaire appears to be reaching a turning point with the battle for the strategic river…

A Dutch peace envoy says the Zairean rebel leader, Laurent Kabila, is willing to open an humanitarian convoy to enable aid groups to reach refugees in territory controlled by his followers. The Dutch Cooperation Minister, Jan Pronk, described the move…

DATE=3/10/97 TYPE=BACKGROUND REPORT NUMBER=5-35903 TITLE=KINSHASA/WOOD BYLINE=PURNELL MURDOCK DATELINE=KINSHASA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: ZAIRE'S 37-YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE HAVE BEEN MARKED BY PERIODS OF VIOLENCE. MANY OF ZAIRE'S POLITICAL UPHEAVALS HAVE BEEN PUNCTUATED BY RIOTING, LEAVING CITIES SUCH AS THE CAPITAL, KINSHASA, DEVASTATED. NOW, WITH EASTERN REBELS POISED TO…

DATE=3/10/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-211200 TITLE=ZAIRE / REFUGEES (L ONLY) BYLINE=SONYA LAURENCE GREEN DATELINE=NAIROBI CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: AID AGENCIES SAY THOUSANDS OF RWANDAN REFUGEES IN ZAIRE ARE STREAMING INTO YET ANOTHER CAMP AT UBUNDU, ABOUT 60 KILOMETERS SOUTH OF KISANGANI. AS SONYA LAURENCE GREEN REPORTS, THE REFUGEES…