Informes

NAIROBI, Sept 24 (Reuter) - U.N. agencies started evacuating non-essential staff from the eastern Zairean town of Bukavu on Tuesday following heavy exchanges of gunfire overnight between the Rwandan army and Zairean forces. Brenda Barton, a spokeswoman for the U.N. World…

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced on Tuesday it was excluding from refugee status 20 Rwandans indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in connection with the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. UNHCR is urging governments to…

KIGALI, Sept 23 (Reuter) - A group of aid workers left the eastern Zairean town of Bukavu by air on Monday because of heavy firing that Rwanda said Zairean troops started by shelling southwestern Rwanda. The International Federation of Red Cross…

The ICRC maintains a limited presence The ICRC continues to work in the city of Monrovia through its locally hired employees. The head of delegation, based in Freetown, Sierra Leone, carries out frequent missions into Monrovia to maintain contacts and…

Action by Churches Together (ACT) ALERT Following a joint assessment mission to Tubmanburg and the surrounding areas, ACT/LWF/WS staff member, Tania Bernath, reported that the condition of the population could be described as quite terrible . It is estimated that…

Briefer: Christiane Berthiaume Zaire Bukavu and Uvira report that everything is quiet. There has not been any movement of Banyamulengwe -- longtime residents in Zaire of Rwandan Tutsi origin -- in the South Kivu region toward Rwanda. Kigali says…

(FR) (Delegation appeals for postwar help) (670) By Wendy Lubetkin USIA European Correspondent GENEVA -- Representatives of the government of Sierra Leone say they are optimistic that a peace accord ending Sierra Leone's five-year civil war will be signed soon, perhaps in a…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (PANA) - UNICEF is to assist some 40,000 poor Burundian school children by providing them with school materials, Michel Sidibe, the UNICEF representative in Burundi, has said. "We have managed to get the means to achieve this. UNICEF-Burundi's budget…

(FR) (Herman Cohen commends Clinton administration for its actions) (860) By Jim Fisher-Thompson USIA Staff Writer WASHINGTON -- The West African nation of Liberia deserves special consideration from the United States, former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Herman Cohen told a…

12-18 September 1996 The information contained in this report was provided by the Office of the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Operational Activities in Liberia UN Agencies, International Organisations and NGOs HIGHLIGHTS Following nutritional screening of children in Tubmanburg, Action…