Informes

BURUNDI, RWANDA, TANZANIA, UGANDA & ZAIRE: RWANDAN AND BURUNDIAN REFUGEES emergency appeal no. 01.02/96 situation report no. 8 period covered: 27-28 October 1996 EMERGENCY REPORT - KIVU CRISIS Latest events Goma The overall situation remained fairly stable during the day, despite 19 patients…

FROM SAM KILEY IN GISENYI ON THE RWANDA-ZAIRE BORDER REBELS continued their rout of Zaire's Army yesterday, closing in on two provincial capitals and raising the spectre of a break-up of the vast country held together for 30 years by…

DATE=10/28/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-205247 TITLE=U-S/ZAIRE (S ONLY) BYLINE=VICTOR BEATTIE DATELINE=WASHINGTON CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE UNITED STATES SAYS POLITICAL AND ETHNIC VIOLENCE IN EASTERN ZAIRE IS A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS WITH THE POTENTIAL OF BECOMING A DISASTER. V-O-A'S VICTOR BEATTIE REPORTS AS WASHINGTON PURSUES DIPLOMATIC AND HUMANITARIAN WAYS TO…

DATE=10/28/96 TYPE=BACKGROUND REPORT NUMBER=5-34809 TITLE=ZAIRE BANYAMULENGE (CQ) BYLINE=SCOTT STEARNS DATELINE=BUJUMBURA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: ETHNIC TUTSI REBELS ARE CONTINUING TO BATTLE GOVERNMENT TROOPS IN EASTERN ZAIRE. VOA'S SCOTT STEARNS REPORTS THE FIGHT IS MORE THAN JUST A LOCAL REBELLION. TEXT: EASTERN ZAIRE IS HOME TO MORE THAN ONE-MILLION…

DATE=10/28/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-205247 TITLE=U-S/ZAIRE (S ONLY) BYLINE=VICTOR BEATTIE DATELINE=WASHINGTON CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE UNITED STATES SAYS POLITICAL AND ETHNIC VIOLENCE IN EASTERN ZAIRE IS A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS WITH THE POTENTIAL OF BECOMING A DISASTER. V-O-A'S VICTOR BEATTIE REPORTS AS WASHINGTON PURSUES DIPLOMATIC AND HUMANITARIAN WAYS TO…

DATE=10/28/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-205220 TITLE=U-N / ZAIRE (L ONLY) BYLINE=DOUGLAS ROBERTS DATELINE=GENEVA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: RELIEF AGENCY OFFICIALS ARE STRUGGLING TO COPE WITH THE INCREASING CHAOS IN EASTERN ZAIRE, WHERE ABOUT ONE-HALF-MILLION REFUGEES HAVE BEEN UPROOTED BY FIGHTING BETWEEN ZAIRIAN GOVERNMENT TROOPS AND ETHNIC TUTSI…

BUKAVU, Zaire (Reuter) - Shells exploded close to the eastern Zairean city of Bukavu overnight as aid agencies scrambled to help some of an estimated half a million people uprooted by fighting between Tutsi rebels and Zairean troops. Reuters…

Press Release 96/33 Geneva (ICRC) - The situation in the Kivu province of Zaire has deteriorated even further. Apart from the actual fighting, excesses resulting from undisciplined behaviour on the part of those bearing weapons, intolerance and terror are giving…

Once again the Great Lakes region of Africa is on the brink of a major humanitarian disaster. Fighting in the north and south Kivu provinces of Eastern Zaire has led to the flight of over 500,000 refugees and displaced people.…

Hundreds of thousands on the move in Eastern Zaire - majority seem to remain in Zaire Geneva, October 28, (noon,CET): As fighting approaches the Eastern Za?rian town of Bukavu as well as closing in on refugee camps north of Goma…