Informes

General A: Events of 24-25 July Bujumbura, and most other regions of the country remain relatively calm, and UN agencies will resume missions in the field this week. After two days of confusion over who was running the country, Defense Minister…

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 19 in a series of weekly reports from…

OUTSIDE BAMUT, Russia (Jul 28, 1996 1:11 p.m. EDT) - At night they are shot at out of the darkness and in the early morning they see wounded comrades being brought from the battlefield, knowing they could be next. Now…

General A: Events of 24-25 July Bujumbura, and most other regions of the country remain relatively calm, and UN agencies will resume missions in the field this week. After two days of confusion over who was running the country, Defense Minister…

KINSHASA, July 27 (Reuter) - Zaire on Saturday stepped up security checks on aid consignments after saying it had found a consignment of weapons for the Rwandan government army in a cargo plane chartered by aid organisations. Interior Minister Kamanda…

(FR) (Preparing contingency plan) (540) By Wendy Lubetkin USIA European Correspondent GENEVA -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says it is watching the situation in Burundi "extremely carefully" and preparing a contingency plan to assist as many as 300,000…

By DONALD G. MCNEIL JR. AIROBI, Kenya -- After two days of confusion about who was running Burundi, the Tutsi-dominated army announced a coup on Thursday, named a new president and dissolved Parliament. The Burundi capital, Bujumbura, was reported to be…

BY MARK HUBAND THE military coup which brought Pierre Buyoya, Burundi's former military President, back to power in the strife-torn Central African country is the most promising sign in a bleak picture. While reports portray him as a Tutsi "strongman",…

Thérèse Gastaut presented a general overview of the situation in Burundi 2) WHO indicated that they had set up "Crises cells" on stand-by in Geneva 3) IOM reported on the transportation of refugees back to Rwanda (questions related to the treatment…

FROM JAMES BONE IN NEW YORK THE United Nations is struggling to assemble a 20,000-strong multinational force to establish buffer zones and "safe areas" in Burundi amid fears of renewed genocide. Senior UN officials complain that the main Western countries…