Informes

New York -- (Department of Humanitarian Affairs) The Emergency Relief Coordinator, Under-Secretary-General Yasushi Akashi, announced the appointment of Mr. Martin Griffiths, Director of the Geneva Office of the Department of Humanitarian Affairs, as Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Great Lakes…

Eastern Zaire Unconfirmed reports suggest that the Zairean army are launching a counter attack from Bunia towards Beni. The main Goma-Butembo road at the Mabenga checkpoint (southern edge of the Virunga National Park, north of Rutshuru) has been closed and no…

Tanzania SCF UK is working under the auspices of the Tanzanian Red Cross in Karagwe district as they are currently the only NGO authorised to work in this area. SCF teams are searching the now empty refugee camps for any unaccompanied…

New York, 23 December 1996 -- The United Nations today appealed for US $91.9 million for two linked initiatives addressing urgent emergency and recovery activities for Liberia. The UN System Inter-Agency Programme for Community Reintegration and Peace-Building, coordinated by the…

DHA/96/31 Genève - (Département des Affaires Humanitaires) - Les Nations Unies lancent un appel aujourd'hui pour un montant de US $91,9 millions destiné à financer deux initiatives conjointes répondant aux activités d'assistance d'urgence et de rétablissement au Libéria. L' Appel inter-agences Consolidé…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org President Mobutu extended until today the deadline for political parties to come up with nominations for a new government, but warned that he would…

Relief workers in eastern Zaire have revised their estimate of the death toll in the Goma area. They say six-thousand-321 bodies of Rwandan Hutu refugees and Zairean natives have been buried since Zairean rebels over-ran the town and its vast…

Please note that this will be the last Oxfam UK/I Information Update on central Africa in 1996. Hopefully the next one will appaer in the first days of 1997. Note : in the parts of this report…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org INTRODUCTION This paper gives a brief overview of food supply and food security issues in Kenya, Rwanda, eastern Zaire, Uganda, Burundi, and Tanzania, drawing on…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) GREAT LAKES - Complex Emergency Note: The last situation report was dated December 19, 1996. New information is underlined. Overview The Banyamulenge and the Banyarwanda people, who…