Informes

FROM SAM KILEY IN BUJUMBURA AFRICAN leaders vowed yesterday to impose tough economic sanctions against Burundi's new military regime, and demanded that it open negotiations with Hutu rebels or face "tougher measures". Major Pierre Buyoya, who seized power in a coup…

DATE=8/1/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-201113 TITLE=LIBERIA / ECOWAS (S) BYLINE=PURNELL MURDOCK DATELINE«IDJAN CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: LIBERIA'S WARRING FACTIONS HAVE AGREED TO END ALL HOSTILITIES IMMEDIATELY AND TO DISARM THEIR SOLDIERS. V-O-A WEST AFRICA CORRESPONDENT PURNELL MURDOCK REPORTS THE FACTION LEADERS REACHED THE AGREEMENT AFTER MEETINGS WITH THE NEW…

By STEFAN LOVGREN Associated Press Writer BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) -- Burundi's new military-backed leader has named a new prime minister, in defiance of widespread international criticism and looming economic sanctions from other central African nations. Pierre Buyoya, the Tutsi major who deposed the…

Faction leaders in Liberia's civil war said they have agreed to end all hostilities immediately and to disarm their soldiers. "Leaders of the warring parties on the council of state agreed to the following . . . the commencement of the…

ABUJA (Jul 31, 1996 6:29 p.m. EDT) Rival Liberian leaders held out new hope for peace in their country by announcing they had agreed in the Nigerian capital Abuja to disarm their forces in August. The warlords, who have been…

Correction: IRIN Burundi Refugee Update, 1 August 1996 We apologize for an error in yesterday's Burundi Refugee Update. The new arrivals in Uvira over the last two months total about 15,000, not 50,000 as stated. We are pleased to offer…

[ReliefWeb: Excerpts) 30 July 1996 DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR INFORMATION OF UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT ONLY Sylvana Foa, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's noon briefing by announcing that the Secretary-General had met this morning with…

After last Thursday's military coup in Burundi in which Pierre Buyoya was declared president, the future of Burundi still remains unclear. Mr Buyoya has rejected any proposal for foreign intervention in Burundi. Meanwhile neighbouring countries under the auspices of the…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (Reuter) - Burundi's military rulers marked their first week in power Thursday by easing a curfew they tightened after their coup and vowing to defy sanctions aimed at toppling them. African leaders decided Wednesday to impose a total embargo…

UNITED NATIONS (Jul 31, 1996 5:41 p.m. EDT) -- Bruised by earlier ventures into chronic ethnic conflicts, major powers are unwilling to volunteer troops for a contingency force that could be sent to Burundi. The United Nations has been pleading with…