Informes

BUJUMBURA (Reuter) - A Hutu rebel group has offered a $1,000 bounty for the head of every American killed in Rwanda, and $1,500 for that of U.S. Ambassador to Kigali Robert Gribbin, senior Western diplomats said Saturday. U.S. embassy officials…

Arusha, Tanzania - A regional summit of Burundi's neighbours has agreed to provide the war-torn tiny central African nation with military assistance to prevent simmering ethnic violence from exploding into another bloodbath like in neighbouring Rwanda, which has a similar…

Kigali - An attempt to bring to trial suspects for Rwanda's 1994 ethnic genocide has been postponed for several more weeks due to a dispute between the Rwandan National Assembly and the government, deputy speaker of the Rwandan parliament…

D. ANGOLA 1. Update a) In Malange, inter-agency meeting with provincial government sets course for next few months; in the meantime, security in the city and surrounding area continues tense. b) Inter-agency mission planned to southern Kuando Kubango. c) UNAVEM reports urgent food…

B. REGIONAL OPERATION FOR BURUNDI, RWANDA, ZAIRE AND TANZANIA 1. General a) WFP Regional Logistics meeting held in Bukavu to review existing logistics contingency plans for Rwanda and Burundi, and create a logistics contingency plan for Masisi, Zaire. 2. Burundi a) Insecurity continues…

C. SOMALIA 1. Update a) Cross-border WFP operations to Juba valley area from Kenya start 22 June, the first cross-border delivery since 1992. b) Further fighting in southern Mogadishu. C. SOMALIA 1. UPDATE 1.1 Following reports of malnutrition in the Juba valley in southern Somalia resulting…

BACKGROUND PAPER ON BURUNDI I Political/diplomatic initiatives 1. The second round of the Mwanza Talks, chaired by former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, were held last week. 2. The meeting proved inconclusive due to the refusal of Government negotiators to meet with a…

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Office of the Special Envoy, Kigali Main Developments Three International Committee of the Red Cross delegates were killed in an ambush as they worked to bring water to the affected populations in Burundi's Cibitoke province on…

Sudan In Sudan poor rains delayed crop planting in parts of Jonglei, Upper Nile, and Bahr el Ghazal Provinces until June. Crops have now been sown, but it is still too early to tell if delayed planting will result in…

PRESS COMMUNIQUE OF THE ARUSHA REGIONAL SUMMIT ON BURUNDI 1. At the invitation of President Benjamin Mkapa of the United Republic of Tanzania, Presidents Daniel arap Moi of Kenya, Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Pasteur Bizimungu of Rwanda, and Sylvestre Ntibantunganya of…