Informes

S/1996/663 15 August 1996</tt> I have the honour to refer to resolution 1011 (1995), adopted by the Security Council on 16 August 1995, regarding the situation in Rwanda. In paragraph 12 of that resolution, I was requested to report to the Council…

A general consensus has been reached for the introduction of new working hours" designed to save fuel in Burundi, according to a statement released Wednesday in Bujumbura at the end of a meeting between government officials and civil society…

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS This document is prepared by the Central News Section of the Department of Public Information and is updated every week-day at approximately 6:00 PM. UN Secretary-General deplores violent clashes in the UN buffer zone in Cyprus. UN officials call on…

DAKAR, Senegal (PANA) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Tuesday started airdropping urgently needed food rations to an initial 15,000 people severely affected by unprecedented floods in Pochalla, southern Sudan. The WFP delivered 60 tons of cereals and pulses…

Western diplomats says Burundi's Tutsi-led military government barred some Burundians from leaving on the last two commercial flights out of the sanctions-hit country. They say only six Burundians got formal permission to leave on the flights later Tuesday evening, including…

Dear Friends, BURUNDI Anxious foreigners and Burundians scrambled on Monday for Sabena tickets on the last scheduled commercial flight out of the sanctions-besieged country. ACT/Christian Aid s Field Officer Eliane Duthoit returned to Bujumbura last night, after a brief R&R, via Sabena…

Ref: DHAGVA - 96/0275 1. UN RESIDENT COORDINATOR IN ADDIS ABABA REPORTS FLOODING IN GAMBELLA REGIONAL STATE IN SOUTHWESTERN ETHIOPIA, NEAR SUDANESE BORDER. 2. CONTINUOUS RAINS SINCE 6 JUNE CAUSED BARO, GILO AND AKOBO RIVERS TO OVERFLOW, FLOODING SOME 35 VILLAGES AND…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (Aug 13, 1996 5:29 p.m. EDT) - Hundreds of Burundians and foreigners jostled at Bujumbura's airport Tuesday night for the last commercial flights out of the sanctions-hit country. Chaos ruled in the steamy airport building as people pushed and…

KHARTOUM, Sudan (PANA) - Floods have destroyed some 326 houses and left thousands homeless in Sudan's Kitaina province, some 60 kms south of Khartoum, following two days of heavy rain at the weekend. The official daily 'Al Sudan Al Hadeith' (Modern…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi's new military regime has announced fuel rationing starting Tuesday, 10 days after economic sanctions imposed by neighbouring Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and Zaire. To implement the rationing, fuel coupons were being distributed at the Bujumbura Football…