Informes

(FR) (Advance units expected to move next week) (670) By Judy Aita USIA United Nations Correspondent UNITED NATIONS -- Coalition officials putting together plans for a multinational force to bring humanitarian aid to more than a million refugees in eastern Zaire said…

KINSHASA: Situation in town remained tense on 13 November. Joint UN mission (WFP, UNHCR and UNICEF) left this morning for Kisangani. UGANDA: Tense situation near Kasese, leading to several thousand displaced Ugandans in Kasese, following attack allegedly by 200 Zaïrian troops…

WASHINGTON (Reuter) - The United States Thursday demanded a cease-fire among factions fighting in eastern Zaire before it sends troops there as part of a proposed international force to aid a million refugees. "What we would like is a pledge by…

From Moses Draku; PANA Correspondent KAMPALA, Uganda (PANA) - Zairean troops backed by Ugandan rebels Wednesday attacked the Ugandan border towns of Mpondwe and Bwera in south western district of Kasese. Uganda's Foreign Affairs Minister, Martin Aliker told an impromptu news…

Red Cross Action The Red Cross continues to seek access to the more than one million refugees and an increasing number of internally displaced Zairians who are scattered over a widening area in eastern Zaire. The Red Cross has held…

November 14, 1996. Minneapolis -- The American Refugee Committees (ARC) Zaire crisis team is stockpiling medicine and other supplies to provide emergency assistance to thousands of suffering refugees uprooted by fighting and in desperate need of food, water, and medical…

Operations completed: 1. Airlift of 26.4 MT UNICEF urgent relief items from Copenhagen to Kampala/Uganda by Netherlands Airforce on 3 November 1996. 2. Four (4) airlifts with C-130 (60 MT of High Energy Biscuits) by the Belgium Airforce for WFP from…

ICRC News 96/45 Some Red Cross volunteers working in the Zairian town of Bukavu have not waited for government and international operations to get under way, but have taken matters into their own hands. In an admirable initiative, two Zairian…

Humanitarian Liaison Working Group =B0 Canada has become increasingly disturbed by the harrowing situation in eastern Zaire. =B0 For two years now, the situation of two million refugees across the border from Rwanda and Burundi has been increasingly…

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. 23 on Eastern Zaire (14 November 1996) Fierce fighting broke out around Goma overnight and continued today, raising fears that relief…