Informes

UN inter=ADagency team, in its first assessment mission outside Goma, finds some 50,000 Rwandan refugees in the Minova region at the edge of Lake Kivu awaiting to be transported back to Rwanda. UNHCR team in Bukavu is allowed 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…

Eastern Zaire SCF UK has been able to move north from Goma to make a further assessment of the area. Around 30,000 people are believed to be at Minova town and a further 10,000-15,000 appear to be moving northwards to…

Not an official document BUKAVU: WFP is planning a small scale targeted distribution to vulnerable groups in hospitals, orphanages and to 8,000 to 9,000 refugees and internally displaced persons who are in or near Bukavu in need of assistance. Some 300 refugees…

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. 42 on Eastern Zaire (Wednesday 27 November 1996) Soldiers of the rebel Alliance of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of…

Ed O'Loughlin, Special to The Christian Science Monitor GOMA, ZAIRE -- James "Goodman" Ruzibiza is - or perhaps was - one of the best fighting soldiers in Rwanda. Now, it seems, he is based in Zaire. In 1994 Major Ruzibiza…

(U.S. military personnel have been placed on alert) (560) Washington -- The United States has placed military personnel on alert for possible air drops of humanitarian supplies into Zaire, the White House said November 27. At the same time, Press Secretary…

MINOVA, Zaire (Reuter) - Thousands of Rwandan refugees streamed into Sake at the northern tip of Lake Kivu in east Zaire Wednesday, some reporting massacres by Hutu militiamen who apparently tried to stem the flow home. "On the second day…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Note: The last situation report was dated November 25, 1996. Overview The Banyamulenge and the Banyarwanda people, who are Tutsi of Rwandan origin, settled in…

SAKE, Zaire (Reuter) - More than 2,000 Rwandan refugees came out of the hills of the Masisi region into the town of Sake on Tuesday as thousands more streamed into Rwanda from the border city of Goma. Aid workers distributed…