Informes

From Lionel Williams; PANA Correspondent JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa is to fly Monday 20 tons of relief supplies to Rwanda, where thousands of refugees have returned from neighbouring states. The assistance, to be flown by the South African…

IHA/614 GENEVA/NEW YORK, 23 December (DHA) -- The United Nations today appealed for $91.9 million for two linked initiatives addressing urgent emergency and recovery activities for Liberia. The United Nations Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeal for Liberia for January-June 1997, coordinated by the Department of…

Repatriation from Tanzania continues. The number of arrests in Rwanda is increasing, mainly in the prefecture of Kibungo where the majority of the refugees are coming from. The majority of refugees from Ngara district have returned. The Karagwe camps are…

PART I - HIGHLIGHTS (Details below in Part II) C. LIBERIA 1. Update a) Demobilisation suspended in Cape Mount County on 19 December due to insecurity. Aid workers and local population harrassed by Krahn wing of ULIMO-J, who demand food 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.63 on the Great Lakes (Friday 20 December 1996) According to unconfirmed reports, President Mobutu is slated to return imminently to Europe.…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (PANA) - Over the last two weeks, just 1,500 of the 200,000 Burundian refugees in Tanzania have returned home in the country's north-eastern province. The head of emergency aid of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Claire…

INTRODUCTION 1. HACO and the humanitarian community have consistently made it known that the revised implementation schedule under the Abuja agreement did not take into account the necessary time for resource mobilization and positioning, required to conduct disarmament and demobilisation. However,…

Co-ordinating Office Action by Churches Together (ACT) is a worldwide network of Churches and their related agencies meeting human need through co-ordinated emergency response and common identity. The ACT network is organizationally based in the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and…

Co-ordinating Office Action by Churches Together (ACT) is a worldwide network of Churches and their related agencies meeting human need through co-ordinated emergency response and common identity. The ACT network is organizationally based in the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and…

The Consolidated Great Lakes report is a compilation of information from the following sources: USG cables; U.N., IO, and NGO situation reports; press clips; and USG departments, bureaus, and offices. The date and source of each entry are noted,…