Informes

KINSHASA, Zaire (Reuter) - Zaire's government said Thursday that its army had launched its promised counter-offensive against rebels in the east and recaptured the town of Walikale. A defense ministry statement said that the town had fallen Wednesday and that…

Judith Matloff, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor NYABIBWE, ZAIRE -- No one knows why the rebels who overran this Zairean town left the unexploded shells lying on the main street. Kids play dangerously near the artillery, which lies under…

The Humanitarian Coordinator for the Great Lakes region of Africa, Martin Griffiths, in a press briefing held yesterday afternoon, 23 January, told correspondents that his purpose in talking to them was to refute allegations that United Nations agencies in…

The Organisation for African Unity says it's against any lifting of sanctions against Burundi imposed in the wake of a bloodless military coup there last July. The O-A-U's committee on conflict prevention, meeting in Addis Ababa, has decided the sanctions…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org - International pressure to have the regional economic sanctions against Burundi suspended or lifted is gaining momentum. A German parliamentary delegation, currently visiting Burundi, said…

Alan Zarembo, Special to The Christian Science Monitor TABA, RWANDA -- Although he feared for his life, Emmanuel Rudasingwa was determined to testify against his former mayor, the first person to be tried at the International War Crimes Tribunal for…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org IRIN Emergency Update No.83 on the Great Lakes (Tuesday 21 January 1997) - In his "message to the nation" on 20 January, that Zairian Prime…

from Segun Adeyemi; PANA Correspondent NEW YORK (PANA) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan Wednesday named Mohammed Sahnoun of Algeria as a joint special representative of the U.N. and the O.A.U. to the Great Lakes region. "I have come to the…

*97012303.AAF 1/23 State Department statement (490) WASHINGTON -- U.S. State Department Spokesman Nicholas Burns said, in a statement issued January 23, that "the United States is profoundly worried by signs that the conflict in Zaire may soon escalate." To avert…

*97012201.AAF (Ambassador Simpson speaks at Meridian House) (740) By Jim Fisher-Thompson USIA Staff Writer WASHINGTON -- With presidential and legislative elections planned, with government forces still reeling from fighting with rebels who have wrested a number of eastern provinces from their control, and with…