Informes

UNHCR Geneva Special Unit for Rwanda and Burundi Report dated July 31 1996RWANDESE and BURUNDI REFUGEE FIGURES as of July 31 1996 Country of Asylum Country of Origin TOTAL Burundi Rwanda Burundi [1] - 69,000 69,000 Rwanda [2] 6,660 - 6,660 Tanzania Ngara 69,899 410,634 480,533 Karagwe - 124,045 124,045 Kigoma[3] 31,246 - 31,246 Uganda 4,000 4,000 Zaire Bukavu 2,000 319,468 321,468 Uvira[4] 114,828 76,589 191,417 Goma 2,000 715,991 717,991 TOTAL 226,633 1,719,727 1,946,360 [1] Forced repatriation of 15,000 Rwandan refugees from Kibezi and Ruvumu…

25-31 July 1996 SUMMARY The ECOWAS Summit was held in Abuja on 26-27 July. The indicated that in order to reactivate the Abuja Agreement, the sub-region and international community must do more to persuade the Liberian leaders to demonstrate, through concrete…

ARUSHA, Tanzania (Reuter) - African leaders agreed Wednesday to impose economic sanctions on Burundi and planned to cut oil supplies and air links to force the military government to restore legitimacy. Leaders from Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Cameroon, Zaire, and…

DATE=7/31/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-201062 TITLE=BURUNDI PRIME MINISTER (L-ONLY) BYLINE=SONYA LAURENCE GREEN DATELINE=NAIROBI CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: BURUNDI'S MILITARY-BACKED RULER PIERRE BUYOYA HAS APPOINTED A HUTU MEMBER OF THE UPRONA PARTY AS THE COUNTRY'S NEW PRIME MINISTER. AS SONYA LAURENCE GREEN REPORTS, THE APPOINTMENT OF PASCAL NDIMIRA, CONSIDERED…

Two years after the genocide in Rwanda, Human Rights Watch and FIDH (Federation Internationale des Droits de l'Homme) charge the Zairian government with complicity in the ethnic violence in North Kivu in eastern Zaire, which has forced most of…

DATE=7/31/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-201046 TITLE=BURUNDI / SUMMIT (S) BYLINE=SCOTT STEARNS DATELINE=ARUSHA, TANZANIA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: EAST AFRICAN LEADERS HAVE CONDEMNED THE COUP IN BURUNDI. V-O-A EAST AFRICA CORRESPONDENT SCOTT STEARNS REPORTS THEY MET IN TANZANIA AND ANNOUNCED THEY WILL IMPOSE ECONOMIC SANCTIONS. TEXT: EAST AFRICAN HEADS OF STATE…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (Jul 30, 1996 00:41 a.m. EDT) -- Civilian reports that Burundi's Tutsi-led army killed dozens of Hutus in retaliation for a rebel attack at a coffee plantation met today with conflicting government response. Lt. Col. Longin Minani said…

FROM SAM KILEY IN KIRIMBI, EASTERN BURUNDI "THEY are shooting. The soldiers are shooting in my village," gasped the teenage girl carrying a baby on her back as she shooed two toddlers ahead of her along a bush track. Close on…

DATE=7/30/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-200986 TITLE=BURUNDI ASSEMBLY (S) BYLINE=SCOTT STERNS DATELINE=BUJUMBURA CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: A LEADING MEMBER OF BURUNDI'S LARGEST POLITICAL PARTY SAYS THE NEW MILITARY APPOINTED PRESIDENT SHOULD ALLOW THE PEOPLE TO CHOOSE MEMBERS OF A NEW NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. V-O-A'S EAST AFRICA CORRESPONDENT SCOTT STERNS REPORTS…

InterAction agencies in Burundi and neighboring countries expressed concern about the prospects for renewed violence and suffering in the wake of a military coup last week in the nations capitol, Bujumbura. The coup, which initially claimed no lives, took place after…