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

*97012201.AAF (Ambassador Simpson speaks at Meridian House) (740) By Jim Fisher-Thompson USIA Staff Writer WASHINGTON -- With presidential and legislative elections planned, with government forces still reeling from fighting with rebels who have wrested a number of eastern provinces from their control, and with…

From Ghion Hagos; PANA Staff Correspondent ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (PANA) - A committee of the O.A.U. dealing with conflicts in Africa Tuesday called on the secretary-general of the continental body to despatch a delegation to Zaire in search of a…

A UNICEF team of two Health Officers and an information officer left Kisangani for Shabunda, 400 km south, where some 40,000 Rwandan refugees have settled. The UNICEF staff are accompanied by several journalists (including AFP, French TV stations, AP…

Cholera. Cholera has been confirmed in Tingi Tingi camp located 10 km from Lubutu and 200 km from Kisangani in north-eastern Zaire. An estimated 120,000 refugees from former camps in Bukavu are in this camp. Fifty-six cases with two deaths have…

Great Lakes Region: Financial Report [ACT-05: 20-Jan-97] Action by Churches Together (ACT) Financial Update no. 5 GLR Zaire/Rwanda Appeals Geneva, January 20, 1997 Since the last Financial Update No. 4, dated 19 December 1996, two further appeals, both dated December 20,…

Action by Churches Together (ACT) Financial Update no. 5 GLR Zaire/Rwanda Appeals Geneva, January 20, 1997 Since the last Financial Update No. 4, dated 19 December 1996, two further appeals, both dated December 20, 1996, have been issued, which we trust you…

Catherine Bertini, the executive director of the World Food Programme, has appealed for an urgent political solution to the refugee crisis in Eastern Zaire, where hundreds of thousands of Rwandans have sought refuge. At the same time, Bertini warned that…

(Excerpt) 1. Great Lakes- Eastern Zaire (See also Great Lakes Crisis) We now have a 24 hour a day presence in Shabunda and are working on ways of providing further assistance there. …

Note: The last situation report was dated January 10, 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, more…