Informes

By KARIN DAVIES Associated Press Writer AKAK, Sudan (AP) - A spidery little boy, bruised by the butt of an enemy gun, crawled across a sun-baked airstrip scooping up corn that trailed from a torn bag of relief food. Majok Majok,…

Forced Repatriation of Rwandan Refugees from Burundi As of Tuesday 23 July, a total of some 15,000 Rwandan refugees had been forcefully repatriated from Burundi. This forced repatriation started on 19 July and was continuing on 23 July, with 3,950 refugees…

(FR) (UNHCR says Rwandan authorities are colluding in the operation) (510) By Wendy Lubetkin USIA European Correspondent GENEVA -- Burundi and Rwandan authorities are colluding to ship thousands of Hutu refugees from a camp inside Burundi back across the border into Rwanda…

The following statement was made today by the Spokesman for the Secretary-General: Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has learned with the utmost dismay of the latest massacre of civilians in Burundi. More than 300 women, children and elderly men were killed over the…

The Executive Director of the World Food Programme, Catherine Bertini, today welcomed the resumption of large-scale airlift/airdrop emergency food deliveries to southern Sudan. This has been made possible by the Sudanese government's decision to authorize the use of C-130 aircraft. Ms.…

U 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 18 in a series of weekly reports from…

BUJUMBURA, July 22 (Reuter) - At least two Rwandan Hutu refugees died of suffocation on Monday after Burundi's Tutsi-dominated army crammed them in container trucks and forced them back into their homeland, a U.N. official said. The army accelerated its…

BUJUMBURA, July 22 (Reuter) - Burundi's Tutsi-dominated army accelerated the expulsion of Rwandan Hutu refugees on Monday as the central African nation began a week of mourning for the latest victims of ethnic massacres. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (Pana) - The chairman of the Unity for National Progress (Uprona) led by Charles Mukasi said Monday in Bujumbura that the party has decided to withdraw its support for President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya. "I cannot publicly here tell you the…

SG/SM/6025 </b>22 July 1996 The following statement was made today by the Spokesman for the Secretary-General: Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has learned with the utmost dismay of the latest massacre of civilians in Burundi. More than 300 women, children…