Informes

Rwanda UNHCR has opened three reception centers in the Cyangugu region for those refugees who decide to return to Rwanda. These centers can handle 15,000 returnees per day. UNHCR and IOM have 120 trucks on hand to transport returnees to…

From Segun Adeyemi ; PANA Correspondent NEW YORK, United Nations (PANA) The United Nations Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali and the chairman of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), President Paul Biya of Cameroon, are worried by the tension in eastern Zaire,…

BUKAVU, Zaire (Reuter) - Shelling rocked the eastern Zairean city of Uvira as Tutsi rebels battled Zairean troops Friday and a European envoy warned a new genocide in Central Africa could be near. Rwandan Hutus fled to Zaire from their homeland…

This report includes: A) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania B) Liberia and Sierra Leone C) Iraq D) Afghanistan From P. Ares, Chief, Programming Service. For information regarding resources, donors are requested to contact Mr. F. Strippoli or Mr. M. Crosthwaite, WFP…

(excerpt) DAILY HIGHLIGHTS This document is prepared by the Central News Section of the Department of Public Information and is updated every week-day at approximately 6:00 PM. The World Food Programme has said that it intended to launch a limited airlift of…

BUKAVU, Zaire (Reuter) - Zairean troops pulled back in confusion in eastern Zaire Thursday in the face of a Tutsi rebel advance uprooting nearly 300,000 Rwandan and Burundian refugees. A spokesman for the Tutsis rebels known as Banyamulenge said their forces…

WHAT: Today, a WFP Buffalo aircraft plus an ICRC aircraft evacuated all expatriate aid workers from Uvira. UNHCR gives a figure of 58 passengers. They cannot confirm the names of passengers but indicate that ALL expatriate aid workers were…

(FR) (10/24 statement by Spokesman Nicholas Burns) (180) WASHINGTON -- State Department Spokesman Nicholas Burns on October 24 issued a brief statement deploring the recent fighting in Eastern Zaire and calling on "all parties to cease the violence and defuse the…

Tens of thousands of Rwandan and other refugees are arriving in Bukavu, Zaire. They are fleeing a flare-up of violence to the south. The fighting reportedly pits Zairean troops against partisans in the civil strife that affects the border…

WHAT: About 50 international humanitarian workers -- including three CARE staff -- were released today from Uvira, Zaire, where they had been pinned down by the Zairian army and a hostile crowd. Thanks to direct intervention from Mrs. Sadako…