Informes

Not an official document TANZANIA: With the assistance of the multi-national force led by Canada, WFP plans to airlift some 100 metric tons of corn-soya blend for camps in the Kibondo district of Kigoma region starting tomorrow. This airlift is to…

Regardless of precise numbers, there is common agreement now that a huge humanitarian problem remains in the Great Lakes region of central Africa: hundreds of thousands of refugees and internally displaced are still unaccounted for in eastern Zaire. The recent…

Refugees fleeing camps in Tanzania - ACT relief for Lubuto say that up to 320.000 refugees have left from 13 camps in Tanzania including Benaco and Lumasi camps which are now reported about 80% empty. It is not clear where…

EASTERN ZAIRE: A joint UN/NGO/Government of Zaire mission visited the Shabunda/Kindu area, some 175 km west of Bukavu, and flew at low altitude around the Lubutu/Walikale/Bukavu area. The mission found approximately 10,000 Rwandan and Burundian refugees in the town of…

Refugee Movements A way station has been established at Kabumba, south Kivu, for those refugees who are now coming out of the nearby forest. The refugees, numbering a few hundred a day, are currently being trucked directly from Kabumba to…

This report has been produced to fulfill the information requirements of the UNDHA Geneva Taskforce on Eastern Zaire and the UNDHA mission in the Great Lakes region. The report attempts to fill the gaps resulting from time delays and…

Red Cross Action Rwanda In the three weeks since an estimated 600,000 Rwandan refugees suddenly returned to Rwanda, the Red Cross has been providing emergency food, water, and medical assistance to the returnees along the road and in their communes.…

After having had to leave both Kindu and Kisangani, eastern Zaire, last week, owing to the deteriorating security situation, an ICRC team on Sunday was able to fly to Shabunda, east of Kindu, from Lubumbashi. An ICRC delegate located…

GOMA, Zaire (Reuter) - Thousands of refugees from conflict in eastern Zaire have trekked 200 km (120 miles) to the west and suffer from diarrhoea, malaria and malnutrition, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Tuesday. An…