Informes

This summary has been produced to fulfill the information requirements of the UNDHA Geneva Taskforce on Eastern Zaire and the UNDHA mission in the Great Lakes region. The summary ensures coverage of events due to time differences and should…

(FR) (Davies says humanitarian intervention will require security) (1340) By Robert Fullerton USIA Staff Writer WASHINGTON -- The United States continues to "intensely" assess what steps it can and will take as part of international efforts to resolve the worsening humanitarian crisis in…

Gail Russell Chaddock and Judith Matloff, Staff writers of The Christian Science Monitor PARIS AND KINSHASA, ZAIRE -- Two weeks after aid workers were forced to abandon eastern Zaire's refugees to ethnic fighting, the world still struggles to respond. The United…

GENEVA (Reuter) - The U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday that it would start airlifting relief supplies within days to hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees fleeing Tutsi rebels in eastern Zaire. Spokeswoman Ruth Marshall told reporters that supplies would…

The situation in Eastern Zaire is worsening. As each day passes and more people are feared dead from exhaustion, starvation or disease, continuing international prevarication and delay become yet more indefensible. In recent days, some aid agencies have entered…

Oxfam today welcomed Canada's commitment to head a multinational military force to protect relief supplies into Eastern Zaire. The charity said Canada's decision had broken the international logjam and finally added urgency and global morality which has been shamefully lacking…

News Service 213/96 AI INDEX: AFR 02/19/96 ADDIS ABABA -- Speaking at an emergency meeting of the Conflict Resolution Mechanism of the Organization of Africa Unity (OAU) in Addis Ababa yesterday, Amnesty International's Secretary General Pierre Sane called on participating governments…

Assessment mission holds preliminary discussions with local authorities in Goma; talks to continue on Wednesday. A second mission was unable to return to Bukavu today following administrative problems at the border crossing. The High Commissioner, meeting with ambassadors at the Humanitarian…

The humanitarian impact of the turmoil in eastern Zaire continues to spill over into Burundi. There has been a marked increase in both the number and size of skirmishes between Hutu rebels and Burundian military authorities as rebels continue…

GOMA, Zaire (Reuter) - The first cases of cholera were reported to have broken out in eastern Zaire Tuesday as Canada emerged as the likely leader of a multinational intervention force to aid more than a million starving refugees. The…