Informes

Press Release SC/6287 SECURITY COUNCIL WELCOMES MULTINATIONAL FORCE PROPOSAL FOR EASTERN ZAIRE, URGES MEMBER STATES TO ARRANGE FOR HUMANITARIAN AID DELIVERY Unanimously Adopting Resolution 1078 (1996), Council Also Requests Secretary-General to Prepare Framework for Humanitarian Task Force The Security Council, meeting early Saturday morning,…

S/RES/1078 (1996) Adopted by the Security Council at its 3710th meeting, on 9 November 1996 The Security Council, Gravely concerned at the deteriorating situation in the Great Lakes region, in particular eastern Zaire, and at the effect of the continued fighting 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. 15 on Eastern Zaire (8-9 November 1996) UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali called yesterday (Friday) for a multinational force to "stabilise the…

DATE=11/9/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-205953 TITLE=REWANDA REFUGEES (L ONLY) BYLINE=SCOTT STEARNS DATELINE=GISENYI CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: RWANDAN REFUGEES ARE RETURNING FROM EASTERN ZAIRE SATURDAY. VOA'S SCOTT STEARNS REPORTS FROM THE BORDER TOWN OF GISENYI THEY ARE RETURNING FROM AN AREA WHERE ZAIREAN REBELS ARE CONTINUING TO FIGHT MEMBERS…

(Roads and forests said to be full of corpses) (680) By Wendy Lubetkin USIA Staff Writer GENEVA -- The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) expressed despair and outrage November 8 at the…

Assisted by the Governments of Belgium and the Netherlands, the World Food Programme will begin an airlift of high protein biscuit that will be prepositioned in Uganda for eventual distribution in eastern Zaire. A total of 100 tons will be…

GOMA, Zaire (Reuter) - Zairean Tutsi rebels fired into the air and beat back more than 1,000 hungry people trying to seize the last food in a U.N. warehouse in Zaire's eastern city of Goma Friday. Two people collapsed outside…

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. 13 on Eastern Zaire (8 November 1996) A caravan of an estimated 175,000 refugees who last week dispersed from Kahindo and…

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. 14 on Eastern Zaire (8 November 1996) Heavy artillery fire west of Goma town has been reported by AFP this afternoon,…

Red Cross Action The Red Cross is preparing for what seems likely to become a huge humanitarian relief operation, once access to the refugees and displaced Zairians is secured. Preparations are taking place in all the countries surrounding Zaire, while assistance…