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.80 on the Great Lakes (Thursday 16 January 1997) - More Rwandan refugees in eastern Zaire are coming forward to request repatriation.…

Judith Matloff, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor BUNIAKIRI, ZAIRE -- Charles Mutabazi walked out of the Walikale forest on Monday a thriving man, defying reports he was dead or didn't exist. The refugee, along with at least 4,000 other…

KISANGANI: Local authorities informed WFP that national flights east of Kisangani would be canceled today and tomorrow for security reasons. The WFP-chartered Boeing 707 continues to fly to Kisangani with one flight scheduled to Kisangani today and two flights tomorrow. AMISI: Flights from…

by unidentified armed individuals in Gisenyi Prefecture, on 13 January 1997 (Status report as at 15 January 1997) On 13 January 1997 at around 2 p.m., an HRFOR team was attacked by a group of about 10 unidentified armed individuals suspected to…

HARARE, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere said Wednesday African leaders needed to understand the realities of the continent's Great Lakes region before trying to solve its political and security crises. "What happens in Burundi will also affect Rwanda…

UNITED NATIONS OFFICE OF THE UN RESIDENT COORDINATOR FOR THE UN SYSTEM'S OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR DEVELOPMENT IN RWANDA B.P. 445, Kigali Rwanda Phone: (250) 75381, 76906, 72796, 75773 Fax: (250) 76263, 73360 Following the incident in Gisenyi Prefecture on 13 January in which…

1. OVERVIEW An FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission visited Sierra Leone from 27 November to 9 December 1996 to estimate the production of 1996 and the national food requirements for 1997, as well as to…

In meetings with high level officials in Burundi and Tanzania, UNHCR has condemned the killing of 122 Burundian refugees last Friday after they were forcibly returned from Tanzania and has today received assurances that this would not happen again. "I…

DATE=1/15/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-208744 TITLE=RWANDA HUMAN RIGHTS (L-ONLY) BYLINE=CHRIS TOMLINSON DATELINE=KIGALI CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: DURING THE PAST MONTH, THERE HAS BEEN AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF VIOLENT INCIDENTS IN RWANDA. THE LATEST INVOLVES U-N HUMAN RIGHTS MONITORS ASSIGNED TO INVESTIGATE ALLEGED HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES. KIGALI…

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.79 on the Great Lakes (Wednesday 15 January 1997) - Church officials in Burundi claimed other massacres occurred last month, in the…