Informes

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. 84 on the Great Lakes (Wednesday 22 January 1997) - Mohamed Sahnoun, an Algerian diplomat who once headed UN operations in…

From Ghion Hagos; PANA Staff Correspondent ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (PANA) - A committee of the O.A.U. dealing with conflicts in Africa Tuesday called on the secretary-general of the continental body to despatch a delegation to Zaire in search of a…

In the south-western Rwandan town of Kamembe humanitarian organizations are now facing a flood of returning refugees from Zaire, most of whom are in very poor health. Since 8 January nearly 2,000 people a day have been crossing the…

16-22 January 1997 The information contained in this report was provided by the Office of the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Operational Activities in Liberia UN Agencies, International Organisations and NGOs REPORTING PERIOD HIGHLIGHTS A total of 429 fighters (including 77 child…

A UNICEF team of two Health Officers and an information officer left Kisangani for Shabunda, 400 km south, where some 40,000 Rwandan refugees have settled. The UNICEF staff are accompanied by several journalists (including AFP, French TV stations, AP…

(Excerpt) 1. Great Lakes (See also Great Lakes Crisis) We strongly condemn the senseless killing of three staff members of Medicos del Mundo in northwest Rwanda at the weekend and the wounding of a fourth aid worker. The…

By Jean Baptiste Kayigamba KIGALI, Jan 21 (IPS) - UN agencies and international (NGOs) have decided to take precautionary measures in northern Rwanda following the murder of three aid workers which the Rwandan authorities have blamed on Hutu extremists.…

Distr. GENERAL E/CN.4/1997/61 20 January 1997 ENGLISH Original: FRENCH Report on the situation of human rights in Rwanda submitted by Mr. René Degni-Ségui, Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights, under paragraph 20 of resolution S-3/1 of 25 May 1994CONTENTSIntroductionI. GENOCIDE A.…

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.82 on the Great Lakes (Saturday-Monday 18-20 January 1997) - Gunmen killed three Spanish nationals working for Medecins du Monde-Spain (MDM) in…

KIGALI (Reuter) - The U.N. refused on Monday to suspend activities in any part of Rwanda after three Spanish aid workers were murdered and an American badly wounded in an attack in a northwestern town at the weekend. "We are…