Informes

CONSOLIDATED GREAT LAKES REPORT UPDATE #6 (UNCLASSIFIED) DECEMBER 21 - 27, 1996 REFUGEE/IDP NUMBERS AND MOVEMENTS IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION: Refugee/IDP Populations in Eastern Zaire - There are no reliable estimates of the total number of Zaireans displaced from their homes, and…

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.66 on the Great Lakes (Friday 27 December 1996) - Laurent Kabila, leader of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) claimed that his…

ICRC activities in eastern Zaire continue to focus on the large numbers of refugees concentrated in Shabunda, mid-way between Kindu and Bukavu. As of 21 December, the ICRC had counted 55,875 refugees in Shabunda, with a further 50,000 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 Zairean state-run television broadcast a statement last night announcing that Prime Minister Kengo wa Dondo is to remain in office. A statement, signed by…

ZAIRE: Senior level inter agency Missions, including the WFP Regional Manager, have visited Kisangani, Lubutu, Tingi-Tingi and Shabunda. Whilst the priority is to assist the refugees to return, there is clearly a need to provide humanitarian assistance for the time being.…

New York -- (Department of Humanitarian Affairs) The Emergency Relief Coordinator, Under-Secretary-General Yasushi Akashi, announced the appointment of Mr. Martin Griffiths, Director of the Geneva Office of the Department of Humanitarian Affairs, as Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Great Lakes…

Eastern Zaire Unconfirmed reports suggest that the Zairean army are launching a counter attack from Bunia towards Beni. The main Goma-Butembo road at the Mabenga checkpoint (southern edge of the Virunga National Park, north of Rutshuru) has been closed and no…

Tanzania SCF UK is working under the auspices of the Tanzanian Red Cross in Karagwe district as they are currently the only NGO authorised to work in this area. SCF teams are searching the now empty refugee camps for any unaccompanied…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org President Mobutu extended until today the deadline for political parties to come up with nominations for a new government, but warned that he would…

Relief workers in eastern Zaire have revised their estimate of the death toll in the Goma area. They say six-thousand-321 bodies of Rwandan Hutu refugees and Zairean natives have been buried since Zairean rebels over-ran the town and its vast…