Informes

*97021803.AAF (UNHCR hopes to open way to Rwanda for refugees) (530) By Wendy Lubetkin USIA European Correspondent GENEVA -- U.N High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata says she does not believe it is "realistic" to consider using a multinational force now to open…

On February 18, the Zairian government launched air-strikes on three eastern Zaire cities under rebel control. The air-strike on Bukavu killed at least nine people, but the death toll could have easily been much higher because the central market…

Our office in Bukavu reports that the situation there is tense this morning after yesterday's bombing raid, but is otherwise normal. Children are going to school. Our international staff are working normally at the office. We have no reports…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org IRIN Emergency Update No. 102 on the Great Lakes for 15-17 February 1997 - Rebel-held Bukavu in eastern Zaire was reported bombed by at least…

I. Le Gouvernement de la Republique du Zaire a pris connaissance avec etonnement du comunique du Porte - parole du Secretaire General de l'ONU concernant les refugies se trouvant a Tingi-Tingi et specialement: 01. de l'appel qu'il a lance…

Note: The last situation report was dated February 7, 1997. Overview The Banyamulenge and the Banyarwanda people, who are Tutsi of Rwandan origin, settled in the Mulenge hills of South Kivu, Zaire, and the Masisi region of North Kivu, Zaire,…

Last fall, fighting in eastern Zaire between rebels and government troops sent more than 600,000 refugees back to Rwanda and displaced countless others from their camps farther west into Zaire's dense equatorial forest. As the fighting intensified, so too…

(as of 14 February 1997) Contents: Operations completed MCDU action under way Requests for assistance issued by MCDU on behalf of UN agencies Offers by donor countries Cooperation between MCDU, UN agencies and donors 1. Operations completed: 1. One (1) airlift of 26.4 MT…

High Commissioner Sadako Ogata, repeating pleas for the demilitarization of refugee encampments in eastern Zaire, calls on warring parties to respect the civilian character of the settlements and to spare them from attacks. On the last stop of a six=ADcountry…

SG/SM/6158 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretrary-General Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General is deeply concerned about recent developments in eastern Zaire, and in particular about reports of the militarization of the main refugee encampment near Tingi-Tingi, which…