Informes

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.88 on the Great Lakes (Tuesday 28 January 1997) - As fighting continues in eastern Zaire, ministers from six African states and…

DHA/97/2 The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) is gravely concerned about the lack of access to populations in need in Eastern Zaire, caused by constraints from all the concerned parties. Effective planning for and provision of humanitarian assistance have been severely hampered…

PRESS RELEASE Following the initiative of His Excellency President Moi of Kenya to convene two regional summit meetings in Nairobi on the ongoing crisis in the Great Lakes region during, respectively, November and December 1996, a meeting of the Foreign…

EST DU ZAIRE: Deux points essentiels: Pénurie alimentaire dans les camps de réfugiés; 20 à 30 personnes, dont une majorité denfants de moins de 5 ans, continuent de mourir chaque jour au camp de Tingi-Tingi. Des dizaines de milliers de…

Distr. GENERAL E/CN.4/1997/6 28 January 1997 ENGLISH Original: FRENCH/SPANISH COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Fifty-third session Item 10 of the provisional agenda QUESTION OF THE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO COLONIAL AND OTHER DEPENDENT…

EASTERN ZAIRE: Two main points: The food shortage in the refugee camps continues; 20 to 30 people still die every day in Tingi-Tingi, among them a majority of children aged under 5. Tens of thousand of refugees are on…

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.87 on the Great Lakes (Saturday-Monday 25-27 January 1997) - Well-placed sources informed IRIN today that there has been intensive fighting around…

Contact: David Shorr (202) 828-0110 This urgent bulletin contains the findings and recommendations of a joint assessment mission to Zaire just completed by Refugees International and the U.S. Catholic Conference (USCC) Migration and Refugee Services. There are well over 200,000…

DAKAR, Senegal (PANA) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has expressed grave concern about the refugee situation in eastern Zaire, where its Tutsi population know as the Banyamulenge are locked in fierce battle with government troops. "The options…

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, more than 200 years ago. Sporadic ethnic violence in the…