Informes

UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR RWANDA Arusha International Conference Centre P.O. Box 6016, Arusha, Tanzania Ref: ICTR/INFO-9-2-014 On 9 August 1996, Theoneste Bagosora and Andre Ntagerura, both detained in Yaounde, Cameroon, were indicted by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for…

ROME - Catherine Bertini, the Executive Director of the World Food Programme has welcomed the Government of Tanzania's decision to allow humanitarian aid deliveries to reach Burundi. "We hope the same spirit of cooperation will prevail among the other countries…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi - France urged its nationals Monday to leave Burundi, hit by sanctions aimed at ending ethnic strife, as foreigners in the capital scrambled to catch the last two commercial flights out Tuesday. The French appeal through its Foreign Ministry…

ROME (AP) -- Tanzania agreed Monday to allow humanitarian aid into neighboring Burundi, despite sanctions imposed by east and central African nations to oust Burundi's new military regime. Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda imposed sanctions, suspended air traffic and blocked…

By CHRIS TOMLINSON Associated Press Writer KINYARU-HAUT, Rwanda (AP) - Rwanda severed air and road links Friday with Burundi, completing a circle of isolation around the central African country in an effort to force out military leaders who seized power last…

KAMPALA, Uganda (PANA) - At least 327 people, including government soldiers and rebels, have been killed in two-and-a-half weeks of fighting in the northern Ugandan district of Gulu. The number includes 255 civilians, 40 Ugandan soldiers and 32 rebels, including their…

NAIROBI, Aug 9 (Reuter) - The Sudanese government has given permission to United Nations agencies to send relief flights to the flood-stricken area of Pochalla in southern Sudan, the agencies said on Friday. Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS), which coordinates U.N. aid…

DAKAR, Senegal (PANA) - The humanitarian NGO "Medecins Sans Frontieres" (Doctors Without Borders) has called on countries neighbouring Burundi to respect the rules of international law on economic sanctions, by allowing into the country, "immediately and without restriction, essential primary…

Les humanitaires s'inquiètent des conséquences de l'embargo sur les civils. Ici, un faible espoir naissait, or nous voilà tous pris en otage: un pays, une nation, et tous les résidents. Par la folie d'un «sage» africain, nous sommes tous prisonniers...…

Ref: DHAGVA - 96/0284 REPATRIATION TO RWANDA UNHCR reports that from Thursday 1st August to Monday 12 August, there have been a total of 23,286 Rwandan refugees voluntarily repatriating from Magara camp in Burundi. This compares to an average rate of…