Informes

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Tuesday expressed deep concern over the plight of Burundi and Rwandan refugees forced to flee their camps in eastern Zaire in the face of intensified ethnic fighting. "I am deeply worried by…

The World Food Programme will attempt to evacuate stranded United Nations and NGO personnel on Tuesday following a last minute decision by Zairean authorities to allow a WFP-chartered aircraft to fly into strife-torn Uvira in eastern Zaire. The number of…

N I T E D N A T I O N S Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 441125 Fax: +254 2 448816 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org This is number 31 in a series of weekly reports from IRIN…

KIGALI (Reuter) - The United Nations has started to evacuate humanitarian staff from eastern Zaire, where government troops are battling Banyamulenge ethnic Tutsis, the head of the U.N. Development Program (UNDP) in Rwanda said Monday. Omar Bakhet told Reuters the…

GENEVA (Reuter) - The U.N. refugee agency Monday reported fresh troubles in east Zaire's Goma region while nearly 250,000 Rwandan and Burundian Hutu refugees fled camps in nearby Uvira amid fighting between troops and rebels. The Geneva-based UNHCR said it had…

BUKAVU, Zaire (Reuter) - Hoards of Hutu refugees from Rwanda and Burundi were on the move in eastern Zaire Monday in search of a safe haven from fighting between soldiers and ethnic Tutsi rebels there, humanitarian sources said. The exodus…

KIGALI (Reuter) - Almost a quarter million Rwandan and Burundian Hutu refugees have abandoned all their 12 camps around the Zairean town of Uvira, where the army is battling Tutsi rebels, a U.N. refugee agency spokesman said Monday. Paul Stromberg,…

Action by Churches Together (ACT) A L E R T Great Lakes Region: 250.000 While awaiting last details and revision of appeals (in the magnitude of 1.3 million US dollars) from partners in Great Lakes Region some news relating to unrest…

(Runingo camp remains virtually empty) (180) By Wendy Lubetkin USIA European Correspondent GENEVA -- The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) suspended its activities October 18 in three camps in the Uvira region after reports of alleged infiltration of armed men into Zaire…

ICRC Communication to the press No 96/32 Geneva (ICRC) - South Kivu and the border areas of Zaire are the scene of growing violence, and the current escalation in warlike rhetoric is fuelling hatred, intolerance and a trend towards exclusion.…