Informes

SG/SM/6093 30 October 1996 The following was issued today by the Spokeswoman for Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali: On 23 October, the Secretary-General met with President Paul Biya of Cameroon in the latter's capacity as current Chairman of the Organization of African Unity. Among…

Eastern Zaire - EIN/GVA/96/21 UNICEF is extremely worried by the rapid deterioration of the situation in eastern Zaire and the consequences this may have on the children: Most of the children have been living in refugee camps since the 1994…

The World Food Programme today warned that intensified armed fighting and the worsening security situation in eastern Zaire has led to a cut-off in humanitarian supplies which could result in a major hunger crisis affecting over one million Rwandan…

Rapid and dramatic changes during the last few days in Kivu province in eastern Zaire have adversely affected ICRC efforts to step up its medical operation for the war-wounded in Uvira hospital. Fighting between the various armed forces has…

A L E R T Great Lakes No 3: ACT prepares to airlift food while Bukavo in Eastern Zaire sees 1,500 new refugees arriving per hour. Tens of thousands of refugees have already reached Bukavu within the last…

BUKAVU, Zaire (Reuter) - Hundreds of thousands of refugees and local Zaireans fleeing ethnic fighting in eastern Zaire are threatened with hunger and disease, aid agencies warned on Wednesday in the city of Bukavu. They said Rwandan and Burundian Hutu refugees…

From Ghion Hagos; PANA Staff Correspondent ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (PANA) - The secretary-general of the Organisation of Africa Unity, Salim Ahmed Salim, said Wednesday he was gravely concerned by the fighting in eastern Zaire, particularly in South Kivu province, and…

October 23 -- Warehouses in Bukavu, Zaire, hold enough food to last three to six days while every hour about a thousand refugees reach the camps desperate for food and shelter. About 50,000 people are expected to arrive today…

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…

Uvira refugees approaching Bukavu at a rate of 700 per hour Geneva, 22. October, 96: Aid workers at a field hospital in Nyangezi, Eastern Zaire, report that approximately 700 refugees per hour are passing their hospital. The refugees are…