Informes

1. Burundi Le Haut Commissaire Mme Sadako Ogata a dépêché à Bujumbura son envoyé spécial Dessalegn Chefeke afin d'obtenir, entre autres, des éclaircissements sur un événement dramatique qui s'est déroulé au Burundi. En effet, le 27 octobre dernier, 300 rapatriés burundais, rentrés…

The vast majority of the estimated 500,000 Rwandan returnees are back in their home communes in Rwanda. Some 100,000 returnees are still on the road, and UNHCR expects them to be in their villages by the weekend. Local authorities block…

Judith Matloff, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor KIGALI, RWANDA -- Shakespeare once wrote: "What's in a name?" Here in Rwanda people are asking: "What's in a number?" Ever since fears of a Rwandan refugee crisis emerged three weeks ago,…

Not an official document The WFP Executive Director, Ms. Catherine Bertini, along with the UNICEF Executive Director, met with the President of Rwanda yesterday evening. Today Ms. Bertini visited Burundi where she visited a transit center for returnees at Gatumba…

Renewed fighting has been reported in eastern Zaire where an estimated 700-thousand refugees are believed to be on the move. A United Nations refugee agency spokesman says reports have been received of fighting around Minove and in the Masisi hills above…

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. 36 on Eastern Zaire (Friday 22 November 1996) The Canadian commander of a proposed international force in eastern Zaire said that…

GOMA, Zaire (Reuter) - Rebel forces stopped U.N. agencies from entering a large swath of eastern Zaire Friday to search for thousands of refugees while efforts to dispatch an intervention force to the region flagged still further. Complete confusion reigned…

Judith Matloff, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor KIGOMBE, RWANDA -- Jean-Marie Vianey returned to his village last Sunday after a 2-1/2-year absence in Zaire to find Mukangabo Mujimimana and her family eating their evening meal in his home. The…

GOMA, Zaire (Reuter) - Heavy fighting and large refugee movements were reported in eastern Zaire as countries backing an intervention force prepared to meet in Germany on Friday to discuss options. Some countries, including the United States, have scaled down their…

[This is a summary of current media reports. Their accuracy is solely the responsibility of the news sources cited. This is provided only as a service to the UN Secretariat and UN Agencies.] 1. HUMANITARIAN SITUATION (Reuters, 22 November 1996,…