Informes

AI INDEX AFR 47/17/96 While unarmed civilians continue to be massacred in Burundi at the hands of the security forces and armed groups, a similar pattern of alarming intensity is emerging again in neighbouring Rwanda, only two years after the…

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…

FROM SAM KILEY IN NAIROBI ETHIOPIAN forces pounded Muslim fundamentalist militia in northern Somalia with helicopter gunships, tanks and artillery over the weekend and vowed to continue its attacks against the "international terrorist group" it blames for a series of…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (Reuter) - Anxious foreigners and Burundians scrambled Monday for tickets on the last scheduled commercial flight out of the sanctions-hit Central African state of Burundi. At the Sabena office in the capital, Burundian businessmen in crumpled suits, Rwandans,…

The present round of fighting in Mogadishu started in April and has continued to flare up sporadically since that time. Many people in the affected areas have lost their homes or fled to safety. The exact numbers of those…

GENERAL: The present round of fighting in Mogadishu started in April and has continued to flare up sporadically since that time. Many people in the affected areas have lost their homes or fled to safety. The exact numbers of those…

by Clarice Taylor, CARE Emergency Assistance Unit Information Officer BURUNDI Beleaguered by civil conflict for the past three years, Burundi was the scene of a bloodless coup d'etat on July 24. After being pelted by stones at the funeral of…

Ref: DHAGVA - 96/0274 1. ACCORDING TO REPORTS OF UN OPERATION LIFELINE SUDAN (OLS), HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLOODING IN UPPER NILE AND JONGLEI HAD BEEN REPORTED SINCE LATE JUNE. 2. WORST AFFECTED ARE AREAS IN SOUTHERN SUDAN NEAR ETHIOPIAN BORDER, INCLUDING…

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Heavy fighting was reported today north of Mogadishu between the militias of two faction leaders, including a former U.S. Marine who succeeded his father a week ago. Witnesses said Hussein Mohamed Aidid's militiamen attacked Balad, about 17…

U N I T E D N A T I O N S Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 441125 Fax: +254 2 448816 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org This is number 21 in a series of weekly reports from…