Democratic Republic of the Congo
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…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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. 22 on eastern Zaire Calls for a multinational force to intervene in eastern Zaire appear to have been answered, with the…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Judith Matloff, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor MBUJI-MAYI, ZAIRE -- While students run wild in the streets of Kinshasa and soldiers loot their way across the country in retreat from the fallen East, Zaire has never seemed so vulnerable…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Community Aid Abroad welcomed today Canada's commitment to head a multinational military force to protect relief supplies into Eastern Zaire. The agency said Canada's decision had broken the international logjam and finally added urgency and global morality which has been…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
The United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs (DHA) has provided support to World Food Programme (WFP) for the airlift by the Netherlands Air Force of 40MT of high energy biscuits from DHA Pisa Warehouse to Kampala (Uganda) where the…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
(FR) (Stands ready to authorize multinational force) (550) By Judy Aita USIA United Nations Correspondent UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Security Council November 13 urged nations who will participate in the multinational force to provide humanitarian aid to more than a million…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
(Agreement on a conceptual framework for a mission) (740) By Alexander M. Sullivan USIA White House Correspondent Washington -- President Clinton has given conditional approval for participation by U.S. troops in an international relief effort in Zaire, the White House said November…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
KAMPALA, Nov 13 (Reuter) - A U.S. assessment team led by an army general arrived in Uganda's capital on Wednesday to investigate conditions for any U.S. involvement in a multinational force for Zaire. The team was expected to visit southwest Uganda,…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
GOMA, Zaire (Nov 13, 1996 07:12 a.m. EST) - Rebels opened fire with anti-aircraft batteries and machineguns at a plane repeatedly flying over the eastern Zairian city of Goma on Wednesday. The rebels, saying they suspected it was carrying French…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Oxfam said tonight (13 November) that the multinational force must have a mandate to disarm the Hutu militia and former Rwandan Government Army. Without such a mandate the force will only deal with the symptoms and not the cause…
