Informes

Through 26 May, 21,146 demobilized soldiers (DS) and accompanying dependants have been provided with return and resettlement assistance by IOM. 18,476 of these have been resettled since the start of the Rapid Demobilization Programme (RDP) on 15 April of this…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (PANA) - The Burundi army reportedly killed at least 30 assailants (a term used to refer to Hutu rebels) in violent clashes on Tuesday on the hills around Bujumbura, the capital. Military sources said in Bujumbura on Wednesday that…

ICRC News 97/20 How do you trace the families of infants too young to know their full names or from where their families come? This is the problem facing the ICRC and other agencies doing tracing work in Rwanda, which…

Travel Advice Unit, Consular Division Foreign & Commonwealth Office 1 Palace Street, London SW1E 5HE Tel: 0171 238 4503/4504 Fax: 0171 238 4545 UGANDA Date of last change: 28 May…

DATE=5/28/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-214912 TITLE=RWANDA KILLINGS (S ONLY) BYLINE=DIANNA CAHN DATELINE=KIGALI CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: GUNMEN IN RWANDA HAVE KILLED A POLICE COMMANDER AND AT LEAST 10 OTHER PEOPLE IN THE LATEST IN A GROWING NUMBER OF SECURITY INCIDENTS. DIANNA CAHN IN KIGALI REPORTS THE…

DAVID HIRST in Khartoum On APRIL 21, President Omar Bashir and five southern leaders signed a so-called "peace from within" in the grounds of the presidential palace. It was a remarkably relaxed, informal, "popular" occasion, out of keeping somehow…

ICRC News 97/20 An ICRC water and sanitation team is currently putting the finishing touches to two major projects aimed at improving water supply and storage in the central Bay region of Somalia. Following the heavy rains of the past…

A weekly report on major developments concerning relief operations in southern Sudan SEEDS AND TOOLS DELIVERIES DISRUPTED... Seeds and tools deliveries have been on hold since 23 May, when a UNICEF-contracted Buffalo aircraft was damaged in Aburoc, Upper Nile (see next…

Rapid Demobilization Programme (RDP) continues steadily. From 15 to 22 April 1997, IOM assisted 929 ex-combatants and their 867 accompanying dependents, bringing the total to 1,796. Since the beginning of the operation in Angola, IOM has transported 3,272 ex-combatants and 1,194…

(O'Toole points to series of killings) By Wendy Lubetkin USIA European Correspondent GENEVA -- The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees is appealing to countries in the Great Lakes region of Africa not to force back Burundi refugees following a further series of…