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U N I T E D N A T I O N S Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org This is number 36 in a series of weekly reports from…

(UNCLASSIFIED) RWANDAN RETURNEE NUMBERS AND FLOWS: UNHCR estimates that from November 15-21, 600,000 Rwandan refugees returned to Rwanda. UNHCR also estimates that 65%- 70% of the returnees already have reached their home communes.(USAID/BHR/OFDA Situation Report #4, 11/21) Returnees transiting through the Gisenyi-Ruhengeri corridor…

(Options still being developed, situation fluid) (1620) STUTTGART, Germany -- Representatives from 35 nations along with humanitarian specialists are sharing their information on the Eastern Zaire crisis to determine response options for a multinational force to be sent there, Canadian Lieutenant…

This report includes: A) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania B) Liberia and Sierra Leone. From P. Ares, Chief, Programming Service. Available on the Internet at WFP Home Page http://www.wfp.org/ or by e-mail from HicksDeb@wfp.org (fax 39 6 5228 2837). For…

STUTTGART, Germany (Reuter) - Western and African military leaders sought on Saturday to establish how many refugees needed help in Zaire in order to develop military options. Talks between nations interested in contributing to an anticipated military mission resumed on…

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. 37 on eastern Zaire (22-23 November 1996) A statement issued yesterday by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said United…

By Mark Dodd KIGOMA, Tanzania, Nov 23 (Reuter) Ethnic Tutsi Zairean rebels are engaged in fresh fighting with local people around Fizi in South Kivu, refugees who fled the fighting by boat to Tanzania said on Saturday. More than 40,000 Zairean…

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 21, 1996. Overview The Banyamulenge and the Banyarwanda people, who are Tutsi of Rwandan origin, settled in the…

Although several hundred thousand Rwandan refugees have returned to Rwanda during the past week, vast numbers of Zairian displaced, Zairians affected by the conflict, Rwandan refugees and Burundian refugees are still without assistance and protection, and there are only unconfirmed…

The international community's active neglect of the crisis in Central Africa will create an African Bosnia, Oxfam said today. As with Bosnia those countries that could act are finding every excuse to stand back, to commit themselves solely to…