Informes

BUJUMBURA, June 13 (Reuter) - Burundi's army said on Thursday it killed 50 Hutu rebels in an attack on a training camp and an army report blamed rebels for killing three Swiss aid workers. ''With the help of the…

6/13/96 The government has approached Savimbi to strike an agreement on the country's lucrative diamond mines. Details of the meeting have not been disclosed. The government has said it loses some $550 million per year due to illegal diamond mining which…

ASMARA, June 13 (Reuter) - The U.N. refugee agency said on Thursday Sudan had deported 224 Eritreans and 20 Ethiopians amid growing tension between the Eritrean and Sudanese governments. "Two hundred and twenty four Eritreans and some Ethiopians were rounded…

By Nicholas Kotch ADDIS ABABA, June 12 (Reuter) - Despite its worsening relations with the Islamic government in Sudan, Ethiopia will not allow its territory to be used by Sudanese rebels, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Wednesday. Meles…

TOKYO, June 12 -- Japan has offered up to 950 million yen in grant-in-aid to Tanzania to help boost food production in the east African nation, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. Notes on the economic assistance were exchanged between officials…

By Mark Dodd NAIROBI, June 12 (Reuter) - Several international aid groups owed on Wednesday to stay on in war-torn Burundi despite the evacuation of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) staff following the killing of three of their…

By Christian Jennings BUJUMBURA, June 11 (Reuter) - The last eight foreign staff of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) left Burundi on Tuesday in the latest of a series of evacuations amid growing insecurity. The eight Swiss ICRC…

NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuter) - Foes and critics of Sudan's government poured scorn Thursday on a peace charter Khartoum signed 24 hours earlier with two rebel factions but which excluded the most successful rebel group. The main rebel group, John Garang's…

KHARTOUM, June 11 (Reuter) - Ten Sudanese politicians and trade unionists, including a former vice president and representatives of the traditional parties, have told the government to resign or face the consequences from the people. In a petition delivered on…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) SUDAN - Civil Strife/Displaced Persons Note: The last situation report was dated February 20, 1996. Background Fighting began in 1983 between the Government of Sudan (GOS) and…