Informes

Red Cross Action The Red Cross fears that the alarming developments taking place in Eastern Zaire, home to a million refugees, mostly Rwandan, may soon lead to a humanitarian crisis similar to the tragic events of the summer of 1994,…

Given the scope of the human tragedy now unfolding in Zaire, the international community is urgently seeking ways to deal with the situation. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is all the more concerned as thousands of…

Press Release HR/96/63 The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights today expressed his profound concern at the growth and intensification of the lethal conflict in the Great Lakes region. The High Commissioner, Mr JosJ Ayala-Lasso, appealed urgently to all parties…

U.S. Department of State Daily Press Briefing Friday, November 1, 1996 Briefer: Nicholas Burns QUESTION: Can you bring us up to date on the situation on the Rwanda-Zaire border? MR. BURNS: Yes, as best as we can. It's a terribly…

BUKAVU, Zaire (Reuter) - Tutsi rebels announced a cease-fire in eastern Zaire Monday after a lightning two-week offensive left more than a million refugees stranded with little food or water. Meanwhile, Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko flew from Switzerland, where he…

BUKAVU, Zaire (Reuter) - International relief agencies and policy planners Sunday focused on the plight of more than one million Hutu refugees in embattled eastern Zaire, with protected "humanitarian corridors" the favored option. Sadako Ogata, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees,…

DAKAR, Senegal (PANA) - UNESCO director-general Federico Mayor has called for an end to fighting between the Banyamurenge (Zairean Tutsis of Rwandan origin) and the Zairean army in eastern Zaire. "Words will never be strong enough to express the feeling…

A million Rwandan refugees in eastern Zaire are now without international protection and assistance as a result of the withdrawal of all humanitarian NGOs and UN agencies from Goma. Will the international community come to their aid in time…

For further information please contact Justin Forsyth or Quynh Tran at (202)783-3331. Oxfam International Position Paper The Crisis in Eastern Zaire Background A human catastrophe is unfolding in eastern Zaire where up to a million Rwandan and Burundian refugees and Zairians have fled intensive…

At a Glance High Commissioner, in interviews with major television networks, urges Zaire and Rwanda to secure humanitarian return corridors for 1.2 million Rwandan and Burundi refugees in eastern Zaire from where they are to their home communes in…