Informes

KINSHASA (Reuter) - President Mobutu Sese Seko has thrown his weight behind moves to send home more than a million Hutu refugees caught at the center of warfare in eastern Zaire. Canada stepped forward Tuesday with an offer to lead…

Ed O'Loughlin, Special to The Christian Science Monitor GOMA, ZAIRE -- The first humanitarian aid to reach rebel-held eastern Zaire is trickling across the border, flowing into an empty football stadium and stagnating in the sun. On Nov. 11 and 12,…

The decision of the UN Security Council to delay deployment of a multinational force into the Great Lakes region effectively signs the death warrants of thousands of people fleeing conflict in the area, according to Community Aid Abroad today. Executive…

UN inter-agency team winds up mission in Goma following three days of talks with local authorities on the resumption of humanitarian activities for refugees and displaced people. Initial relief supplies distributed in Goma hospital. UNHCR attempts to negotiate cross-border operations from Burundi…

(DoD official says focal point shifts to UN Nov. 14) (2700) Washington -- A senior Pentagon official told reporters that the focal point of the Zaire relief planning would "basically shift" to the UN on November 14. President Clinton's National Security Affairs…

From Ghion Hagos ; PANA Staff Correspondent ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (PANA) - Seven African states have accepted to contribute soldiers to serve in the proposed multinational humanitarian force in eastern Zaire, the OAU Secretary-General, Salim Ahmed Salim, said in Addis…

DAKAR, Senegal (PANA ) - Declaring the situation in Zaire "a grave emergency", the director-general of the World Health Organization, Hiroshi Nakajima, has ordered airliftiing of an emergency evaluation team and the stockpiling of medicines in anticipation of further threats…

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. 20 on Eastern Zaire (13 November 1996) Shots were fired at a small plane flying over Goma this morning, reports AFP…

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. 21 on eastern Zaire (13 November 1996) Fourteen US military personnel arrived in Entebbe at 2 pm local time today. A…

NAIROBI, Nov 13 (Reuter) - The United Nations said on Wednesday it had reached agreement with rebel authorities in eastern Zaire to allow aid agencies to increase their presence and operations there. Ben Parker of the U.N. Department of Humanitarian Affairs…