Informes

UNHCR has issued an appeal for more than $7.7 million to fund new reintegration projects for up to 140,000 refugees who are expected to return to Somalia this coming year. UNHCR's request for funds is part of an appeal…

New York and Ngara, Tanzania, Dec. 16 -- A long-expected chapter of the Rwandan refugee saga is unfolding in Tanzania. Rwandan refugees there are flooding toward home, but under duress. Tanzanian soldiers nudge them onward. Near the Rusumo River…

New York and Rukira, Rwanda, Dec. 16, 1996 -- "It's beyond imagination to be home," said the Rwandan refugee. Someone was living in the house he left two years ago, but he could wait for that, he told Lutheran…

DHA/96/30 Genève - (Département des affaires humanitaires) - Les Nations Unies ont lancé un appel d'un montant total de US $100,5 millions pour répondre aux besoins humanitaires de secours et de réhabilitation en Somalie, un pays frappé par les effets…

The United Nations refugee agency says thousands of Rwandan refugees are continuing to return home from neighbouring Tanzania. Witnesses at the Rusomo border crossing say there is a solid mass of refugees filling the road to Rusomo for at least 14-kilometres. Africa…

Fighting has engulfed the Somali capital, Mogadishu after a mortar shell killed 13 people and wounded 29 at the sprawling Bakaraha market. North Mogadishu strongman, Ali Mahdi Mohamed, sent his militiamen to fire artillery shells across the truce line. Analysts fear…

IHA/613 NEW YORK, 16 December (Department of Humanitarian Affairs) -- The United Nations today appealed for $100.5 million to address humanitarian relief and rehabilitation needs in Somalia, a country plagued by the effects of six years of civil war. The United…

VOLUME ONE: JOINT PROGRAMMES AND PROJECTS Table of ContentsExecutive SummaryOverview of Part One1. Introduction2. UN Agencies in 1997: Framework and Approaches3. Joint Activities4. Joint Program Project SummariesVOLUME TWO: UN AGENCY REQUIREMENTSVOLUME THREE: SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTEXECUTIVE SUMMARY At first…

Judith Matloff, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor KIGALI, RWANDA -- Central Africa's refugee crisis has sparked aid agencies to question their uncomfortable role on the front line of world conflicts. For 2-1/2 years, the United Nations maintained camps for…

Tanzania Estimates suggest that about 7,000 refugees crossed the border at Kibungo into Rwanda on Saturday, 14 December. More returned on 15 December but numbers are not known as registration figures are still not available. There is no indication that force…