Informes

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…

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…

MILITARY THREAT REMAINS DESPITE UNITED NATIONS OPTIMISTIC FACE The United Nations Security Council meeting on 11 December confirmed the planned withdrawal of its peacekeeping force from Angola, despite the continued threat to peace from UNITA's substantial clandestine army. The…

CONTEXT: THE NEED After six years of civil war, Somalia continues to be plagued by violence, particularly in the South. Almost 500,000 Somali refugees are in neighbouring countries and hundreds of thousands more are internally displaced. Their host communities are…

DATE=12/15/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-207513 TITLE=RWANDA / REFUGEES (L) BYLINE=SCOTT STEARNS DATELINE=RUSUMO FALLS CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: RWANDA'S PRESIDENT SAYS EXTREMISTS ARE SLOWING THE FLOW OF RWANDAN REFUGEES FROM CAMPS IN WESTERN TANZANIA. AS V-O-A'S SCOTT STEARNS REPORTS, MORE THAN 15-THOUSAND PEOPLE HAVE CROSSED INTO RWANDA SINCE SATURDAY, AND…

CONTENTS 1. Chronology 2. War takes its toll on education 3. Sudanese women meet in Nairobi 1. Chronology November 15: Troops from Ethiopia and Uganda are poised to invade Sudan across its southern and eastern borders with aid from the United States, a…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org IRIN Emergency Update No. 57 on the Great Lakes (Saturday 14 December 1996) - Tanzanian troops are surrounding groups of the more than 300,000 Rwandan…

Rwandan Refugees in Tanzania on the Move Tanzania: The situation in the Tanzania refugee camps isevolving rapidly and confirmed information is sketchy. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported that on December 12, Rwandan refugees began to pour…

ROME, Dec 13 (Reuter) - The U.N. World Food Programme on Friday said one of its staff in Angola had been killed in an attack by men in military uniform. A statement by the Rome-based agency named the victim as…

Hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees ordered to leave Tanzania have abandoned their camps to hide in nearby hills and avoid repatriation. Africa correspondent Ben Wilson reports, more than a quarter of the half a million refugees living in…