Informes

Press Release SC/6301 The Security Council this evening extended the mandate of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission (UNAVEM III) until 28 February 1997 and approved the Secretary-General's recommendation to resume withdrawal of UNAVEM III formed military…

A 38 day nightmare is over for an American pilot and two other Red Cross workers who were taken hostage in the Central African nation of Sudan. Congressman Richardson (D-NM), who has just returned from the war-torn region, successfully…

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. 54 on the Great Lakes (Wednesday 11 December 1996) Rwandan refugees in Tanzania appear to be on the verge of leaving…

GENEVA (Reuter) - The United Nations on Wednesday said Burundi's army had killed at least 1,100 people, including hundreds of Hutu returnees from eastern Zaire in October and November, based on its investigations and witness accounts. The U.N. human rights…

DATE=12/11/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-207383 TITLE=ANGOLA FINAL RENEWAL (L ONLY) BYLINE=ELAINE JOHANSON DATELINE=UNITED NATIONS CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE UNITED NATIONS IS PREPARING TO END ITS PEACEKEEPING INVOLVEMENT IN ANGOLA. THE SECURITY COUNCIL WEDNESDAY RENEWED, FOR THE LAST TIME, A SEVEN-THOUSAND STRONG U-N FORCE IN THE AFRICAN NATION.…

S/RES/1087 (1996) Adopted by the Security Council at its 3722nd meeting, on 11 December 1996 The Security Council, Reaffirming its resolution 696 (1991) of 30 May 1991 and all subsequent relevant resolutions, Having considered the report of the Secretary-General dated 2…

(FR) (Hutu extremists launch campaign against returns) (420) By Wendy Lubetkin USIA European Correspondent GENEVA -- The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says some 23,000 Rwandan refugees have fled two camps in Tanzania's Karagwe region to avoid repatriation following a campaign by…

TANZANIA We have now established that some 23,000 Rwandan refugees have fled from two camps in Tanzania's Karagwe region: 16,000 from Rubwera and 7,000 from Kagenyi . The departures followed a campaign by extremists who have been going from hut…

(FR) (Amnesty Int'l concerned about UNAVEM III departure) (320) NEW YORK -- Amnesty International (AI) has reiterated a call to the United Nations that the world body make sure that human rights are at the top of its agenda in…

Ref: DHAGVA - 96/0510 1. DHA/UNDP Resident Representative in Port Louis reports the passage, in the afternoon of 8 December, of Cyclone Daniella at 50 km off Mauritius' southwestern coast. 2. Highest gusts recorded at one site were 154 km/h, and…