Informes

The High Commissioner is seriously concerned about the worsening situation for refugees in eastern Zaire and is stepping up efforts to try to help refugees in the area. As you know the area is already a logisitical nightmare although…

NOTE: BETWEEN JANUARY 18 AND FEBRUARY 2, 1997, THE LINK BETWEEN USAID AND THE INTERNET WILL BE SUSPENDED IN AN EFFORT TO RESOLVE SYSTEM DELAYS. IN THE INTERIM, DOCUMENTS POSTED TO THE GREAT LAKES INFORMATION CENTER (GLIC) WILL BE…

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees expressed grave concern today about the refugee situation in eastern Zaire. "The options are limited and stark, and things are getting worse not better," said High Commissioner Sadako Ogata in a statement issued in…

KINSHASA, Zaire (Reuter) - Zaire's government said Thursday that its army had launched its promised counter-offensive against rebels in the east and recaptured the town of Walikale. A defense ministry statement said that the town had fallen Wednesday and that…

Judith Matloff, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor NYABIBWE, ZAIRE -- No one knows why the rebels who overran this Zairean town left the unexploded shells lying on the main street. Kids play dangerously near the artillery, which lies under…

The Humanitarian Coordinator for the Great Lakes region of Africa, Martin Griffiths, in a press briefing held yesterday afternoon, 23 January, told correspondents that his purpose in talking to them was to refute allegations that United Nations agencies in…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org - International pressure to have the regional economic sanctions against Burundi suspended or lifted is gaining momentum. A German parliamentary delegation, currently visiting Burundi, said…

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.83 on the Great Lakes (Tuesday 21 January 1997) - In his "message to the nation" on 20 January, that Zairian Prime…

from Segun Adeyemi; PANA Correspondent NEW YORK (PANA) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan Wednesday named Mohammed Sahnoun of Algeria as a joint special representative of the U.N. and the O.A.U. to the Great Lakes region. "I have come to the…

*97012303.AAF 1/23 State Department statement (490) WASHINGTON -- U.S. State Department Spokesman Nicholas Burns said, in a statement issued January 23, that "the United States is profoundly worried by signs that the conflict in Zaire may soon escalate." To avert…