Informes

DATE=11/4/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-205554 TITLE=RWANDA / U-N-H-C-R (S) BYLINE=SCOTT STEARNS DATELINE=KIGALI CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: A SENIOR UNITED NATIONS OFFICIAL IS EXPECTED IN THE RWANDAN CAPITAL MONDAY. FROM KIGALI, V-O-A'S SCOTT STEARNS REPORTS THE VISIT IS AIMED AT HELPING TO REPATRIATE MORE THAN A MILLION RWANDAN REFUGEES…

Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders USA Aims to Prevent Further Human Catastrophe Today the international emergency relief agency Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres called for an immediate international/UN…

An unprecedented human tragedy is unfolding in eastern Zaire. Hundreds of thousands of victims - displaced Zairians, Rwandan refugees and Burundian refugees - are caught up in a raging conflict and have been left without any form of protection…

November 4 -- With over a million refugees on the move, CARE is deploying logistics, health and water specialists to central Africa in an attempt to head off a potential humanitarian disaster. The specialists will search for supply routes…

NOTE TO THE SPOKESMAN Given the full-blown complex emergency which is arising out of the ongoing hostilities in Eastern Zaire, USG Yasushi Akashi, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, is dispatching today the head of his Office in Geneva, Mr. Martin Griffiths,…

emergency appeal no. 01.02/96 period covered: 01-03 November 1996 EMERGENCY REPORT - KIVU CRISIS Latest events Goma The day of Friday November 1st was one of extreme tension as over 100 expatriate aid workers, including eleven Federation delegates, were caught for hours…

GENEVA (Reuter) - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata Sunday appealed for urgent action to open "emergency lifelines" to well over a million people fleeing fighting in eastern Zaire. In a statement issued from the Geneva headquarters of her…

DAKAR, Senegal (PANA) - The field commander of the West African Peace Monitoring Force in Liberia, Maj. Gen. Victor Malu, has ordered a review of security arrangements for all the leaders of the country's warring factions, the force said…

Ogata urges emergency lifelines to refugees and displaced people in Zaire The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees called Sunday for the urgent opening of emergency lifelines to more than 1.2 million Burundi and Rwandan refugees and tens of thousands of…

GOMA: Heavy fighting is reported in Katale (north of Goma). Refugees are reported moving north and west into Zaïre to seek safety. In the event that the refugee population does not return to Rwanda in significant numbers, and moves…